Boubacar Kamara was involved in an incident v Leicester. (Credit: Imago)
Boubacar Kamara was involved in an incident v Leicester. (Credit: Imago)
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Kamara accused of diving as MOTD footage emerges in Aston Villa v Leicester

Keith Hackett
Keith Hackett

Refereeing Consultant AUTHORITY Former FIFA Referee; Head of PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited). FOCUS Laws of the Game, VAR implementation, officiating performance, and PGMOL policy. THE AUDIT Keith utilises Statscore’s Officiating Telemetry, including Deep-Data Metrics like Incident Accuracy Rates, VAR Intervention Latency, and Official Positional Efficiency. He provides technical refereeing analysis to reveal the regulatory reality behind match-defining decisions.

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Boubacar Kamara should have been booked for diving as Aston Villa beat Leicester City at Villa Park on Saturday, according to Keith Hackett.

In the first half, 25-year-old Kamara went down in the penalty area after a challenge by Stephy Mavididi.

Referee Jarred Gillett allowed play to continue after Kamara looked at him and appealed for a penalty before VAR Peter Bankes also checked it and didn't think any further action was warranted.

After seeing replays of the incident, former Premier League and FIFA-registered referee Hackett said that Kamara in fact should have been booked for simulation after he went down.

"Frankly, until referees start to issue yellow cards for these acts of simulation with the intention to deceive the referee, ‘diving’ will continue," Hackett told Villa News.

"This is an example how players manufacture contact and go to ground.

"[It's] not a penalty kick"

Kamara dives as Aston Villa penalty appeals ignored

Mavididi didn't win the ball. However, the contact on Kamara was so minimal that there's no way it should have caused Kamara to hit the deck.

The French midfielder seemed to go looking for that penalty after a heavy touch of the ball.

Boubacar Kamara goes down after a challenge by Stephy Mavididi. (Credit: MOTD)
Boubacar Kamara goes down after a challenge by Stephy Mavididi. (Credit: MOTD)

Either way, Villa still won the game 2-1.

It was 0-0 when Kamara went down but the incident is unlikely to be talked about much now thanks to goals by Ross Barkley and Leon Bailey putting Villa up to eighth in the Premier League table.

Mavididi scored the Foxes' goal.

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