Fulham boss left fuming at lack of red card for Newcastle defender Dan Burn

Fulham manager Marco Silva felt referee Rob Jones should have sent Newcastle’s Dan Burn off in yesterday’s Premier League match on Tyneside.

The Whites lost 1-0 with Alexander Isak breaking their resistance late on.

But Fulham had missed a glorious chance to take the lead earlier in the second half with Aleksandar Mitrovic’s penalty disallowed after he scuffed his shot on to his standing foot.

Silva, booked at the end of the contest for his remonstrations with the match officials, felt that VAR should also have given them a spot-kick moments before that when Dan Burn pulled back Andreas Pereira inside the penalty area.

Even the penalty awarded was only given by Jones after VAR flagged it up as a potential foul by Kieran Trippier on Bobby Decordova-Reid.

“A tough, tough end to the match for us – but not just the end of the match,” Silva told BBC Match Of The Day.

“Finishing a game [against Chelsea on Thursday] at 10pm is not fair for us to start the game at 2pm on Sunday [when Newcastle played on Tuesday]. We changed three players and probably I should have changed more because it is very tough, we knew the quality of Newcastle as well.

“One bad decision from the ref and VAR made a huge, huge impact in the game. It’s clear, not the second penalty but the first one is a penalty and has to be a red card. There were two moments inside the box and the ref didn’t see the first and didn’t see the second.

“This group is too strong to let us down [and not bounce back from the loss]. I make mistakes, my players make mistakes and refs can as well – it is more difficult to understand why VAR can’t help in important moments in the game.”