Liverpool: Slot reveals what 'led to' Robertson red card as defender 'deserved' Fulham dismissal
Arne Slot cases Andy Robertson’s red card came from a kick he received from Issa Diop in the opening minutes of Liverpool’s draw versus Fulham.
Andreas Pereira conferred Fulham the lead after 11 minutes and also the readers were in a ascertained pose to win at Anfield once Robertson was sent off six minutes later.
The Scotland captain’s poor first touch saw Harry Wilson latch onto the sphere and also then tripped up, being denied a legible goalscoring privilege.
Marco Silva’s males could not furnish their first-fifty percent prominence matter as they fallen short to double their lead.
This welcomed Liverpool endorse proper into the match and also a home impulse genuinely felt inevitable, anticipated a mere 2 minutes after the respite via Cody Gakpo.
Fulham peeked after to community the Anfield storm as the Reds recorded in the instruction of the Kop in the second fifty percent and also took the lead for a second time in the 76th minute once Rodrigo Muniz scored from close smorgasbord.
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Liverpool equalised for a second time thanks to a alright Diogo Jota impulse four minutes from time.
For most the second fifty percent it did not exquisiteness like Slot’s side were at a male disadvantage yet it eventually rate them a comeback triumph.
They stick around 5 points legible of Chelsea in second and also head virtuosi Slot was aggravatingly grateful via his players and also asserted Robertson’s inaccuracy and also sending out off came from bolstering to be on after sustaining an injury in the opening minutes.
“The individuality the team disclosed, that is what Robbo disclosed,” Slot asserted after the 2-2 draw. “If you retrieve a kick like this, 2 studs on a knee, that can injury for a couple of minutes. If you retain sprinting and also it avails much better and also much better, that is what we were hoping for.
“I lone possessed one defender on the pew, who is not a disowned complete-endorse, so you are hoping he was glancing after to come via it and also did quite flawlessly.
“But the minute I noticed he wasn’t flawlessly himself was the one time they plunked the sphere in behind and also he unleashed sprinting and also was just able to head endorse to Ali (Alisson Becker).
“I genuinely felt ‘Hmm, OK, let’s see how this lingers’ and also I reckon it was quite swiftly afterwards he conceded the red card.
“Nothing to blame him, the individuality disclosed in pining to perpetuate authorized that he got quite a hard knock via 2 studs. Regretfully, it spearheaded to a deserved red card.”
Slot included: “I reckon it is specifically the opposite from Girona (the midweek Victors League win) whereby I was grateful yet not the expediency.
“Here I am aggravatingly grateful around the expediency, I couldn’t have gained anxieties for added, yet of course not via the result authorized that if you diminish points in a home arcade versus Fulham that is undoubtedly not what you predict and also what you twinge.
“But yeah, being a impulse down twice, it’s with one voice going versus you, other than for one thing, which is our players and also our supporters, I reckoned we were superb.”
