Liverpool followers hit out after their aspect went 1-0 down of their Champions League conflict with Galatasaray, branding the choice to award the hosts a penalty ‘ridiculous’ and ‘a joke’.
Reds midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai was penalised after his arm appeared to clip Baris Alper Yilmaz as he turned within the field, and the Turkish attacker went down clutching his face.
Victor Osimhen saved his cool in Istanbul to place his aspect 1-0 up from the spot however Liverpool followers took to social media to sentence the award of the penalty.
One posted on X: ‘If that’s the edge for a pen, count on 30 each match. Completely ridiculous.’
Dominik Szoboszlai appeared to clip Baris Alper Yilmaz and the ref pointed to the spot
Victor Osimhen saved his cool to attain from the spot and put Galatasaray a objective forward
In the meantime, a second fan mentioned: ‘It’s a massively overused phrase but when that’s a penalty then actually and actually the sport’s gone.’
And a 3rd added: ‘Penalty for barely touching somebody’s chest? What a ridiculous resolution.’
‘It’s simply that trailing arm, isn’t it?’ mentioned Alan Shearer on co-commentary duties for Amazon Prime. ‘It catches him, simply invitations him to go down. It catches him and the referee has received a extremely, actually good view of it.’
And former referee Mark Clattenburg agreed, saying: ‘As he goes in to problem him, his trailing arm catches him within the face and it was a easy resolution from a well-positioned referee.’
However on X, one other fan mentioned: ‘Can’t imagine that’s been given as a penalty even in Europe and might’t imagine Shearer and Clattenburg mentioned it was simple. My head is on mars.’
And a fifth fan added: ‘It is a joke of a penalty, however no matter, we go once more.’
And one other mentioned: ‘How on earth is {that a} penalty????? Yet one more resolution like that and I am formally finished with soccer.’
