The out of control thing is a very difficult thing to police.
We often see it used as the reasoning for punishing challenges on the ground, tackling player off the ground when committing to the challenge often interpreted as out of control because at that point they've little means of backing out of the challenge. If you apply that to aerial challenges then you're basically banning jumping, in which case both Jimenez and Luiz would've been 'out of control' last night and potentially in line to be punished.
It's a terrible outcome to what, in my eyes at least, is a perfectly honest challenge but I don't see how you can eradicate those situations without fundamentally changing the way the game is played. The congestion you get a set pieces in particular with balls being played in at head height is always going to provide the potential for these kind of things to occur, even more so with the relatively modern fondness for zonal marking as it gives players more opportunity to get a run on one another and some poor bloke to get stuck in the way from a standing start. Last night Luiz had made a great run to attack that cross but at the same time Jimenez did his defensive work excellently to get across a few yards at the near post and flick it away, unfortunately in doing so he puts himself right in the firing line of anyone who would be attacking the ball behind him, it could just have easily been Traore barreling into him if he'd got ahead of Luiz.
If that ball is an inch or two lower then the incident might not even happen, Jimenez would've then been thrusting his head forwards to head the ball away rather than flicking it upward and that might have been enough to avoid the collision with Luiz, it at least would've massively reduced the severity of the impact as they wouldn't have been meeting head on.
There is however a strange disparity between how these incidents are viewed between aerial challenges and those on the ground, any slide tackle these days is scrutinised to high heaven looking for intent, excessive force, lack of control, contact on the follow through, you name it someone is going to find a way to argue it's dangerous. At times it almost certainly goes too far and you end up with a bit of a nanny state refereeing the game, sure players need to be protected but it's a contact sport at the end of the day so there are inevitably going to be some incidents along the way.
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