Did Luiz even get booked? He should have, but I must have missed that.
It's always the big decisions that get called out when officials get them wrong as they tend to be directly game changing : pen/no pen; offside/onside etc. In this case because it wasn't a bad tempered, fractious game, there's no comment on everything Atkinson let go, and it makes us sound like we are making excuses. We are not,and there were things we could have done differently that might have impacted the game in our favour as much as Atkinson getting the little things right. But letting the same players foul over and over without barely speaking to them, never mind booking them, just allowed Cheatski to keep on fouling to break up our play as they knew they could get away with it.
Would Luiz have put in the same "MOTM'" performance if he had been booked early on (or at all)? Was Alonso ever really in fear of getting sent off? And Kante just had free rein.
Again, it's not all down to the referee by any means. But his deficiencies should not go unmentioned.