The Norway international was clear of Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna when he tripped himself up and fell, but Pedersen insists it was no dive.
“It wasn’t a penalty and that’s not what I was after,” he told Norway’s Nettavisen.
“If you see the pictures, you can see that my legs hit each other and I fall. The heel hits the leg, and I fall face down.
“There were many thoughts that went through my head, then and there. I was frustrated and maybe waved a bit with my arms.
“But it was definitely not a penalty, and I told that to Sagna later as well.
“The referee came up to me straight afterwards, and I am counting on that he would have given me a card if he had thought that I was trying to dive.
“As I said, I wasn’t trying to cheat (to win) a penalty. And it was correct that I didn’t get one.”
