John Aldridge
I am confused by the Everton fans suggesting they were robbed by the referee during Saturday's Merseyside derby
The only decision that went against Everton was Konate not being shown a second yellow card and, yes, he should have been sent off
The referee made a mistake there, but don’t forget he made a bad error with the penalty we received. It had to go to VAR to even be awarded despite being as clear as day.
A lot of people have been suggesting decisions went the way of Liverpool because of all the noise made by the club on the back of Luis Diaz’s disallowed goal at Tottenham Hotspur last month
If that was the case, why didn’t Craig Pawson give us a penalty for the Michael Keane handball? I could see it from 200 yards away up in the stands, doing the commentary.
Everyone in the stadium saw it, but the referee didn’t? It was only approved after a VAR review, which quashes that argument being put forward by Evertonians.
There was another penalty we could have had before that when Nathan Patterson wiped out Luis Diaz inside the box, which was just brushed over and not assessed.
The referee did OK during the game, but made three wrong decisions: the Konate second yellow, not giving the Luis Diaz penalty and the Keane spot-kick not being awarded right away.
Another talking point was the Ashley Young red card, but no Everton fan can seriously moan about that.
The first challenge was a booking and then he got away with kicking the ball away shortly afterwards.
Everton didn’t show any ambition at all during the game, which I can understand because the gulf between the sides is so vast
I’ve never seen an Everton team so deep and defensive as that for a while. They didn’t want to get forward at all.
The Evertonians must have been expecting a little bit more, to be honest. That’s where they are at the moment and we know where we are, not far from the top of the table
Even if Everton had eleven men, we still would have won the game. When you’ve got eleven men behind the ball, you can’t feel hard done by about not coming away with the three points.
Jurgen Klopp's substitutes during Saturday's win made a real difference. Harvey Elliott was involved in everything that was good about our play down the right side and I thought he excelled when he came on. Darwin Nunez was a handful, as ever
Ryan Gravenberch was the best player on the pitch for the first 25 minutes, which was a really positive point.
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