Liverpool have been held to a draw by Fulham however given the circumstances, you’ll be able to’t argue that the group didn’t do themselves proud – one thing the referee definitely didn’t.
In a nook simply after 9 minutes had been added on, the ball dropped to Mo Salah who fired a shot into Alex Iwobi’s most delicate space.
The winger struggled to kick the ball out of play earlier than falling to the ground in ache, with the time at 90:39.
Anybody who has skilled this sense will perceive that it definitely takes a while to come back to phrases with and so the fault can’t be positioned on the previous Arsenal man.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t till 91:45 that the sport was restarted and on this time the referee by no means made the 28-year-old go away the pitch.
As an alternative all of us needed to await over a minute because the momentum was once more slowed down by techniques that wound down the clock and weren’t appropriately punished.
We must always have seen Tony Harrington ask the winger to go away the sphere of play which might have led to him being off the pitch for 30 seconds of recreation time.
As an alternative, all of us needed to wait and what made matter even worse was the truth that the sport ended at 99:27 and so this 66 second await an injured participant led to simply 27 seconds being added on.
The referee misplaced management of the sport at Anfield
Add on what we noticed from Arne Slot as Bernd Leno held onto the ball for greater than 10 seconds and Virgil van Dijk calling out the official for being nervous – you’ll be able to see why frustration was current.
Conspiracy theorists could level in the direction of this being the primary recreation since David Coote was sacked for his feedback made about Jurgen Klopp and the Reds, resulting in his mates nonetheless in a job attempt to get ‘revenge’.
Nevertheless, it’s more likely that that is simply as soon as once more right down to the horrible requirements of refereeing within the Premier League.
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