Mike Dean was surprised to see Ibrahima Konate avoid a red card during Liverpool's 2-0 win over Everton on Saturday afternoon.
Konate was booked at the start of the second half after preventing a counter-attack by dragging Amadou Onana to the ground and could well have been dismissed 15 minutes after this incident
The French defender, committing a similar offence on Beto, was not brandished a second yellow card
Recognising Liverpool were rather fortunate not to have gone down to ten men, Jurgen Klopp replaced Konate just two minutes after the incident
Dean said :
"I think it is a second yellow, I do. Consistency-wise, you send off a player for two fouls in the first half. “He has done two in the space of 10 minutes. I guarantee you he will get substituted.”
Sean Dyche could also not believe this call, telling reporters after the game:
"I’ve asked the referee, he said he didn’t feel it was a bookable offence and he felt that straight away. I don’t know what is then."
“I’d like to think there’s a lot of fair-minded people in football, and I think people who were here today would be stunned that that wasn’t a second yellow.
"Their manager, fair play to him, he took him off as quick as he could! He’s realised, he saw, ‘I got away with one there’ – I imagine he thought that, I don’t know. He couldn’t wait to get him off. He knows and we know.”
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