Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert unhappy with referee after Chelsea loss

Paul Lambert: Criticised referee Kevin Friend after Aston Villa's defeat by Chelsea

Paul Lambert felt referee Kevin Friend made two crucial mistakes in Aston Villa's 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Villa battled hard against the Blues as Christian Benteke cancelled out an early Antonio Luna own goal, but Branislav Ivanovic's second-half header sealed victory for Jose Mourinho's side.
Lambert felt aggrieved after Ivanovic avoided a red card for catching Benteke with a flailing arm before scoring the winner, while a late penalty appeal for handball by John Terry was waved away.

"He has missed two huge moments. I saw it at the time. How you can miss that magnitude of decision is beyond me."

Paul Lambert

"I think it's there for everybody to see," he told Sky Sports.
"It's clearly an elbow on Christian, I think it's a sending-off and the referee is in the vicinity to do it, and the penalty I think is a penalty.
"He has missed two huge moments. I saw it at the time. How you can miss that magnitude of decision is beyond me."
Lambert added: "It's easy to sit here with sour grapes and all that sort of thing, (but) I thought my team were outstanding.
"I don't think we deserved to lose the game. I think we've been done by two big decisions that were wrong.