was livid that was not penalised for pushing captain because the striker doubled ’s lead in a chaotic 2-1 defeat to the champions.
Spurs completed right down to 9 gamers after two pink playing cards – with and Romero despatched off – however Frank pointed to Ekitike’s objective within the 66th minute because the “greatest mistake” the officers made in the course of the conflict on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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“I believe the second objective is a mistake from the ref,” Frank mentioned. “I believe there’s two clear arms on the again. I do not perceive it, how you are able to do that. In all places else we have seen that, 1000 instances on the market on the pitch, somebody will go up on a header, a objective kick into the centre-back, two arms within the again, and growth, foul, however apparently not the penalty field.
Frank was livid with Liverpool’s second objective (REUTERS)
“I believe that was the largest mistake, for my part, and from VAR. However apparently it was not sufficient.”
Romero was booked for his protests, with the Tottenham captain despatched off in stoppage time for kicking out at Liverpool defender .
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Tottenham performed for over an hour right down to 10 males after Simons was despatched off for catching Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk on the calf together with his studs.
“I do not like this as a pink card,” Frank mentioned. “I believe the sport might be too large to tackle, however for me it isn’t reckless, it isn’t he’s coming with distinctive drive.
“He’s chasing Van Dijk. He is he is making an attempt to place stress after which he modified route after which sadly his foot is on his Achilles.
“You might say, you might want to be smarter, do not do it and all that, however so we’re not allowed to have bodily contact anymore?
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“In order that’s the subsequent factor. How will you get a three-game ban on one thing that is not reckless? That is completely fallacious.”
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Arne Slot agreed with Frank’s evaluation that he had seen challenges like Simons’s not given as a pink card.
“I do not suppose he had any intention to do it,” Slot mentioned. “However when you see it again, the place he touches him from behind, the peak, I believe it was calf, Achilles.
”There have been a couple of instances in video games when different groups made fouls like that towards us and it did not result in a pink card.
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”This time it did. I believe I’ve seen a number of instances that these fouls are a pink card, however I’ve seen this season a couple of instances when different groups made the identical fouls towards us that it wasn’t, so.”
Ekitike, for his half, didn’t suppose he fouled Romero. “It is a part of the sport,” Ekitike mentioned “He’s a defender, I am a striker. I judged the cross higher than he did and I took the ball. That’s the reason I scored. That’s his opinion, my opinion is that it was an excellent cross, a fortunate header, however I did the fitting factor.”