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A player with two arms on the back of another player, pushing them downwards, not looking at the ball but looking at the player they are fouling.
Any other circumstances it would be a foul.
That's one way of interpreting it though. The other is that Gabriel is leaving forward to head it back over his head.
It's a marginal call. You can't just decide you know exactly what happened and then claim its an outrage! Gabriel himself didn't even complain about it at the time.
You can only decide that two straight arms to the back of the head and neck impede Gabriel to move his head back. That's a foul in itself. Then you can also notice that they weren't straight at the beginning of the action and that all muscles on Gabriel's legs get more tense throughout because he is trying to resist the push.