AR red card?

[TNZebra44]

Ok--watched a replay of Liverpool vs Chelsea, played on Feb 1. Liverpool was up 1-0 can't remember the exact time, somewhere around 88 min, and Liverpool was doing the stall in the corner. One Chelsea player trying to steal the ball back, another Chelsea player comes running in and puts his boot in the back of the Liverpool player. I am sure they were wearing soft pitch boots and metal at that. The Liverpool player was thrown to the pitch over the corner flag. The center didn't see it and for some reason the AR didn't either. AR called a throw-in.

My question, can the AR influence the Center to throw a red and possible more? Never had a situation happen like this to me before nor have I seen it.