Alan Shearer can’t imagine the choice Paul Tierney made lower than two minutes earlier than Liverpool netted a 99th minute winner in opposition to Nottingham Forest yesterday.
The sport seemed to be ending goalless on the Metropolis Floor till substitute Darwin Nunez latched onto the tip of Alexis Mac Allister’s cross and headed dwelling to earn the Reds all three factors.
The previous Newcastle United ahead has slammed referee Tierney nonetheless, after he handed possession to Liverpool regardless of Forest’s Callum Hudson-Odoi being in charge of the ball previous to play being stopped for Ibou Konate’s head damage.
The house aspect’s backroom employees raced onto the pitch at full-time to confront Tierney whereas Jurgen Klopp’s aspect celebrated with the travelling Kopites behind the objective.
“He’s dropped a giant clanger, Paul Tierney,” stated the Premier League’s document goalscorer on Match of the Day (through Liverpool ECHO). “He’s bought it completely mistaken. It’s a nook to Forest late on, and Konate will get a head damage.
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“He will get knocked down by his goalkeeper, Kelleher, and Paul Tierney doesn’t blow [straight away]; Hudson-Odoi has the ball, after which the referee blows as a result of it’s a head damage. He blows when Forest have the ball.
“What he does is he then offers the ball unchallenged to the goalkeeper, which is completely mistaken and needs to be a Forest unchallenged drop-ball out on the wing the place the ball was stopped. That’s who touched it final.
“I get the purpose of the objective being one minute and 50 seconds later; the purpose is legitimate, however when you drop it the place Forest ought to have had it, every part adjustments. Liverpool don’t get the nook, and the objective doesn’t occur.”
We perceive the place Shearer is coming from however the very same factor occurred to Liverpool within the first half when Ryan Yates went down with a head damage. This seems to have been forgotten about by Forest’s employees and most within the media, nonetheless.
Nunez’s 14th objective of the season (throughout all competitions) got here simply shy of two minutes after the sport was restarted so you’ll be able to’t actually argue our winner got here as a direct results of the referee’s actions.
Richard Keys and Andy Grey have additionally voiced their dismay on the referee’s resolution.
It was an enormous victory for Liverpool and one which noticed our lead on the prime of the Premier League prolonged to 4 factors forward of the Manchester derby this afternoon.
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