Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola and match-winner Erling Haaland mentioned they didn’t wish to see Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai despatched off in victory at Anfield.
Guardiola known as for “frequent sense” after Liverpool goalscorer Szoboszlai was dismissed within the 103rd minute for denying Metropolis a goalscoring alternative – even because the ball went into the purpose.
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Rayan Cherki had an injury-time strike disallowed after discovering the web from the half-way line as Szoboszlai and Haaland chased the shot, with first the Hungarian fouling the Norwegian after which the Metropolis striker tugging again the Liverpool right-back, however with neither making contact with the ball.
Referee Craig Pawson initially gave the purpose however was advised by VAR to have a look at the incident on the monitor and got here again and awarded a free kick and dismissed Szoboszlai.
It meant Metropolis, who thought they’d gone 3-1 up, and Szoboszlai shall be suspended for Liverpool’s match away at Sunderland on Wednesday.
And Guardiola mentioned: “Come on referee, give [the] purpose and go residence. It’s frequent sense. I do know he pulls him, however what number of pulls there are in a sport that referees play on, play on, play on?”
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And Haaland, a former teammate of Szoboszlai at Pink Bull Salzburg, mentioned: “Simply give the purpose, do not give a crimson card, easy as that.”
Szoboszlai dragged again Haaland to stop the Norwegian tapping in late on (Getty Photographs)
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot mentioned he accepted the choice however was extra aggravated that Metropolis defender Marc Guehi solely proven a crimson card for tugging Mohamed Salah at 0-0.
He defined: “I can stay with the very fact, though I don’t prefer it, that the referee follows the rulebook and Dominik makes a foul on Haaland in that scenario which is a transparent shirt-pull and he was by means of on purpose so he would have scored. That’s a crimson card.
“I feel the Sunderland supervisor is basically glad he offers a crimson card. When you comply with the rulebook, and you’ve got a transparent shirt-pull by Guehi on Mo Salah, who for eight years has been scoring that ball 100 occasions out of 100 – a little bit of an exaggeration – and it’s not a crimson card, then there’s extra of my frustration.
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“I can stay with the crimson card for Dom. When you like soccer you say ‘ah, go away it as a purpose, it’s good them and good for everybody’ however because the Sunderland supervisor you like to see it as a crimson card. That’s the rule and following the foundations is all I ask.”