Dermot Gallagher thought that Liverpool had ‘bad luck’ with one refuge decision in particular during their defeat against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
The 100% Start of the Premier League season of the Reds came down in Selhurst Park after Eddie Nketiah scored the winner of the home place deep in the stopping time (the amount of which attracted a number of post-match rage of the visitors), with the Eagles now the only undefined team in the English top flight after six matches.
They touched early by an Ismaila Sarr -target after a failed clearance of a corner kick, although Virgil van Dijk was seen with a fight with Chris Kavanagh about the allocation of the set piece.
Repetitions showed that the ball had returned Conor Bradley and was back on the tiba of Tyrick Mitchell, although the official did not pick up that last touch.
What did Gallagher say about that fateful decision?
Gallagher made his usual Monday morning perform on Sky Sports News’ Ref -watch To discuss the major referee incidents from the Premier League campaign of the weekend, and he thought that Liverpool was a shame with that specific decision and the ‘consequences’ it had.
The former Top Whistler said: “The referee does not see it because he is behind the piece and he does not see it Strike Mitchell, with the assistant on the other side, and that is why it is unlucky.
“This probably happens once a game that something goes in the wrong direction, but it becomes vocal because it leads to a goal. That is the fate of the referee. It is not always the decision you make, but the consequences of those decisions.”
Wrong decision, but Liverpool should have treated the corner much better
Liverpool can have a justification in the feeling that in that case he was given in that case instead of a target kick, because repetitions showed that the ball had last touched Mitchell, so Van Dijk was within his rights to dispute the decision.
To defend Kavanagh and his assistant, it was not the easiest contacts to spot their respective viewpoints, although Gallagher rightly pointed out that the supervision had major consequences in the final 2-1 victory of Palace.
Although the call was incorrect, it does not apologize for the horrible way in which the Reds defended the corner, where Ryan Gravenberch accidentally solded SARR to score after the Dutchman misled his header.
Van Dijk was also honest in a brutal way (via Liverpoolfc.com) That Liverpool would have been lucky to escape on the balance sheet of the game with a point if it had not been before the last-gasp intervention of Nketiah.
The decision around the corner for the first goal was perhaps incorrect, but it was not nearly as very shocking as the handball with which Gabriel had left on Sunday in Arsenal’s victory in Newcastle. Good luck with PGMOL chef Howard Webb tries to justify it.
The Reds will have to take their medicine on Saturday, but they have the chance to win again quickly if they can beat Galatasaray tomorrow night.
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