has blasted the officiating on present within the Merseyside derby as held off an fightback to emerge 2-1 victors.
Eyebrows had been raised when solely three minutes of stoppage time had been added on after the clock had ticked over 90 minutes, with a quite a few second-half free-kicks and substitutions bringing about important pauses in play.
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Everton had been additionally left baffled by a yellow card proven to midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, with the Englishman cautioned by referee Darren England for taking a free-kick too rapidly.
Grealish, who himself was booked for remonstrating the referee after the full-time whistle, has criticised the referee for this resolution specifically.
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“I’ve by no means seen a participant in my entire life get booked for taking a fast free-kick,” he informed TNT Sports activities. “I don’t know the place that rule has are available.
“Even the stoppage-time, three minutes and one minute – I’ve by no means seen that within the Premier League within the final two or three years.
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“There have been frustrations with the referee. Typically you wish to let the sport go, I utterly get that, however you may’t not give us one thing after which two seconds later one in every of their defenders goes down after getting touched within the again and he provides it.
“You come to those stadiums and the group are on them, I really feel that they really feel they’ve to provide it. Kiernan (Dewsbury-Corridor) is on 4 yellows now and he obtained one for taking a fast free-kick. We wish to get the sport going, we’re dropping.”
Everton had been left to rue their first half-hour as Liverpool stormed right into a two-goal lead due to objectives from Ryan Gravenberch and Hugo Ekitike.
The Toffees had been a lot improved after the break, although, halving the deficit by Idrissa Gueye with 32 minutes of regular time nonetheless to play.
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However as they looked for a late equaliser, they had been left pissed off by the dearth of extra time indicated by the fourth official.
“Three minutes was very unusual,” Moyes added. “Each fast free-kick needed to be stopped and introduced again for the whistle after which we get a reserving for it. I discover it fairly unbelievable.”