Dermot Gallagher disagrees with Daniel Farke over controversial Leeds United decision vs Burnley

Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher has delivered his verdict on the controversial penalty call in Leeds United's loss to Burnley. Whites chief Daniel Farke was convinced his side should have been given a spot kick in the first half of the Elland Road clash after Manor Solomon went down under a challenge from Joe Worrall.

United's players appealed for a penalty but referee James Bell was unmoved and awarded a corner. Speaking live on Sky Sports News’ ‘Ref Watch’ segment, Gallagher said: “Brilliant refereeing Rob because the defender actually gets the ball. It looks a penalty all day long but he gets the ball. As he comes round here, he gets the ball, it’s a really, really good decision.”

When asked for his view on the incident, Burnley head coach Scott Parker said: “I’m not sitting on the fence, but I’ve not seen it. I didn’t think it was at real time to be honest with you. It looked like he got a toe on it. I think it would be unfair of me to comment on that.”

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Farke refused to be downhearted following their first Championship loss of the season. “Of course it's the most frustrating thing in football when you go back to the dressing room and can hardly explain why you didn't win this game,” Farke said.

“After this difficult international break, just one session together, I didn't expect we would be that dominant, so I was really happy with our dominance, how we started on the front foot, dominated each and every statistic.

“The decisive moments we were not effective enough. We should have scored after two minutes, [needed] a better finish, Mateo one on one, Willy Gnonto then eight yards out.

"We should have a penalty again. Many corners but the only team who scores out of a corner is them, from a corner for us. Manor [Solomon] is there with the wrong decision, decided to turn around, didn't have to take this risk, he slipped and they were away with an 85-yard counter. Congratulations and credit to them for a good finish.

"When I compare how they scored and what we have created, we had better chances, easier chances to score and didn't take them. This is where we have to be self critical. I was disappointed to concede out of such a situation.

“We could speak about we could have created some more good chances. The goalkeeper was there with some really good saves. It's tricky because the second half was interrupted with many injuries, many substitutions and a bit of time wasting. Sometimes you have to score from a set-piece. We were there in good situations, close to the box.

“It's quite natural, they are invited to drop deeper and deeper, of course it's difficult. Many of our key players were feeling a bit more the load in the second half due to the international duties. We substitute some of them who are normally always on the pitch.

“After a loss you're not allowed to speak about this but the game itself, not the result, encouraged me even more that we'll play a good season. If you can play that dominant, make them just defend more or less the whole game then you normally have a good set-up to play a good season."