Chelsea let down by VAR as penalty mistake confirmed following controversial incident

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Chelsea have been told that another refereeing penalty mistake was made in one of their recent Premier League games

Chelsea should have been awarded a penalty during their Premier League clash against Everton last month. The Key Match Incidents Panel, via BBC Sport, voted 3:2 that James Tarkowski should have been penalised for an elbow on Wesley Fofana in the 18-yard box, though the majority agreed VAR was right to not intervene.

The Blues were losing 3-0 at the time of the incident, and therefore even if the officials at Stockley Park recommended a review and the original decision was overturned, Chelsea scoring from the spot was unlikely to have a lasting impact on the final score.

Nonetheless, it has highlighted another refereeing error, with the total now at 55 for the season, 15 away from the 70 mistakes made in the 2024/25 campaign.

Chelsea have been involved in several refereeing controversies this season, with the KMI deeming that Reece James' pull on the shirt of Malick Thiaw should have been given a penalty during their defeat to Newcastle United, but that Nick Woltemade's upending Cole Palmer was not worthy of a spot-kick.

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Those two refereeing decisions going the other way were highly unlikely to have prevented Liam Rosenior's side from losing both of those games, with defeats in the first and second legs of their Champions League last-16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain making it four consecutive losses.

Chelsea do have a great chance to stop the rut in their first game back from the March international break as they welcome League One strugglers Port Vale to Stamford Bridge for an FA Cup quarter-final.

The west Londoners are unsurprisingly huge favourites to be one of four teams heading to Wembley later this month, with Arsenal also expected to join them as they take on Southampton. Manchester City vs Liverpool and West Ham United vs Leeds United are the other two quarter-final fixtures.

Securing Champions League football for next season becomes the focus after that, with league games against both Manchester clubs and Brighton on the schedule, though the latter clash would be postponed if Chelsea make the FA Cup semi-finals.

That task has been made that much harder for Rosenior and Co. after the recent injuries picked up by Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah, with the defensive duo joining fellow academy graduate Levi Colwill on the sidelines.

He has resumed parts of team training but is still some way off from returning to action. A lack of bodies at the back could be detrimental to Chelsea's hopes for the remainder of the season, and a worst-case-scenario outcome could even see some key stars consider their futures.

Marc Cucurella and Enzo Fernandez are two that have cast some doubt over that with neither undeniably committing to the club.

The former has been linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, while Cucurella brutally called out the ownership by admitting he would not have sacked Enzo Maresca.