- Andreas Pereira opened the scoring for Fulham in opposition to Liverpool on Saturday
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Andreas Pereira opened the scoring for Fulham in opposition to Liverpool, simply moments after he might have been despatched off for a foul on Ryan Gravenberch.
The Brazilian gave Marco Silva’s facet the right begin at Anfield as he completed off a high-quality crew transfer, though the ball did deflect in off Andy Robertson.
Nonetheless, minutes earlier, Pereira was booked after he caught the again of Gravenberch’s leg together with his studs, however many felt the midfielder acquired away with one.
On Soccer Saturday, Michael Dawson was masking the sport and claimed he ought to’ve been given a pink card by Tony Harrington, whereas refereeing professional and former official Mike Dean was even stronger in his views.
‘I suppose judging by what we noticed within the week within the programme that Howard (Webb) did (Mic’d up),’ he mentioned.
‘It is the identical problem as Ndidi on the again of Cole Palmer. He is caught him simply above the achilles together with his studs and and scraped right down to the highest of the boot.
Andreas Pereira controversially opened the scoring for Fulham in opposition to Liverpool , simply moments after the Fulham star might have been despatched off for a foul on Ryan Gravenberch
Pereira caught the again of Gravenberch’s legs, however he was solely booked for the problem
The Fulham midfielder’s studs got here down Gravenberch’s legs, leaving Liverpool livid
‘For my part he is nowhere close to the ball, he is aware of what he is doing and it is 100 per cent a pink card.’
Dawson had earlier mentioned: ‘What a end, nevertheless Liverpool will probably be questioning whether or not Pereira ought to have had a pink card?
‘I believe we noticed it a couple of weeks in the past when Tom Cairney made a foul on Kulusevski, straight down the again of his achilles.
‘This was very very related. Tony Harrington gave him a yellow card, VAR I am guessing had a have a look at it and it wasn’t something.’
The chaotic begin to the sport continued when Liverpool defender Robertson was then given his marching orders after simply 17 minutes.
The Scot was responsible of a horrible contact, earlier than he introduced down Harry Wilson and was dismissed.
After a VAR verify, the choice – which got here after Issa Diop and Luis Diaz additionally picked up yellows inside the primary 10 minutes – was confirmed, to depart the league-leading Reds up in opposition to it.
Explaining what had occurred, the Premier League Match Centre mentioned: ‘The referee issued a pink card to Robertson for a foul on Wilson which denied a purpose scoring alternative.
Mike Dean could not imagine Pereira acquired away with it, labelling the foul ‘100 per cent a pink card’
Andy Robertson was then despatched off for fouling Harry Wilson to cap a mad begin to the sport
‘VAR checked to substantiate the pink card and that Wilson was in an onside place.’
In the meantime, the aforementioned Ndidi-Palmer problem Dean refereed to was in relation to an incident final month when the Leicester midfielder was solely cautioned after his excessive sort out on Palmer caught the Chelsea star’s achilles.
The sort out was reviewed by VAR however the choice was taken to stay with Andrew Madley’s on-field name.
Nonetheless, PGMOL boss Howard Webb then admitted that Ndidi was lucky to flee a dismissal.
‘We have checked out this collectively, among the many officers, talked about this, and we’d desire this to be handled a pink card,’ Webb mentioned. ‘We have now to guard participant security.’
