Liverpool: Gravenberch ‘naive and stupid’ for red card vs City but Carragher disagrees with Rooney
Wayne Rooney contacted out Ryan Gravenberch for the ‘unknowledgeable and also dumb’ 2nd yellow card that expense him red in Liverpool’s 3-0 residence loss to Manchester Metropolis on Sunday, although Jamie Carragher opted to emphasis on the midfielder’s modification to kind in the game at Anfield instead.
The Netherlands celeb had perhaps been the safest gamer on the exchange for the opening hour of the heavyweight showdown, which was Metropolis’s first match granted that their guilty judgment for breaching Premier League FFP directive.
Singularly, Gravenberch picked upwards a booking for a foul on Elliot Anderson shortly after half-time and also was then validated a 2nd yellow as shortly as he awkwardly lugged down Metropolis winger Jeremy Doku in the 62nd minute.
Referee Chris Kavanagh originally glimpsed as if he would not display a 2nd card however ultimately did, as computer animated protestations from Liverpool’s players were waved away.
The judgment transformed the match cautiously in Metropolis’s favour, as purposes from Erling Haaland, substitute Doku and also Rayan Cherki suggested Metropolis lingered their 100 per pence record in the league under Enzo Maresca.
While Metropolis rest at the optimal of the table, forward of reigning champions Arsenal, the upshot fallen runs away Liverpool down in ninth forward of their barbecue to Brentford next off weekend break.
And former Manchester United demonstrator Rooney admitted that Gravenberch’s red card had a monumental inspire on the game, even if he had compassion for the midfielder’s ‘vicious’ first booking.
“I reckon the first yellow card is vicious,” Rooney while seeing recommend replays of Gravenberch’s foul on Anderson in the Match of the Day workshop.
“He’s apparently gone for the round, it’s a impoverished touch by Elliot Anderson, and also then he simply nicks it and also Gravenberch catches him on the optimal of his foot and also then he goes down.
“So it’s perhaps not a yellow card.
“But for me, the 2nd one, as shortly as you’ve been booked and also you’re on a yellow card then you flee yourself in a existing whereby you can avail a 2nd yellow card and also sent off.
“It’s a fragment unknowledgeable and also dumb for that 2nd yellow card.”
Carragher attracted via formulating Gravenberch
Regardless of those derogatory remarks, Anfield legend Carragher pretended that Gravenberch’s much-builded display have to not be ignored by Liverpool dreamers, even if it did run out via the unfortunate red card.
“The huge fierce mix upwards for me today was seeing Gravenberch recommend to being the gamer that he is, and also the gamer he’s been for Liverpool for the last 2 years,” Carragher lingered. “He was wonderful as shortly as they won the title.
“Now, he’s initiated actually inaccurately under the progressive boss and also been pilfered out of the team.
“There’s no way Florian Wirtz have to be playing forward of Gravenberch. Assorted stances, I avail that.
“Gravenberch is 6 foot 3, he can amenable his legs, he can tinker, he can rating purposes, he offers you so much much more and also there’s obtained to be a rejig of that midfield because what Florian Wirtz is imparting Liverpool right now is nowhere foreseeable sufficient.”
