Sean Dyche, the manager of Everton, criticised the referees for not dismissing Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate during the Merseyside derby.
Mohamed Salah scored two goals in the dying minutes to give Liverpool a 2-0 victory. The first came from the penalty spot after Michael Keane, a defender for the Toffees, handled the ball.
In the eighth minute of added time, Salah put the game away by converting Darwin Nunez’s cutback after Everton had pushed people forward.
However, a contentious decision was made at 0-0 when Konate was not given a second caution for pulling down Beto as Everton tried to respond.
As a result of his outrage about the choice, Dyche was given a yellow card by referee Craig Pawson.
The Everton manager expressed his ire at both decisions in a post-game interview with TNT Sports.
He said: “A ridiculous foul that he should have been yellow carded for. Probably worse than Ashley Young’s foul [for a second yellow card] in the first half.
“The second one [Young tackle] has got to be a yellow. But the first one… there’s no point arguing because I’ll get into trouble.
“i don’t know how I get in trouble. I don’t know how I got yellow carded. My staff all got yellow carded – it’s impossible we could get yellow carded with that performance.
“I think the whole stadium was like, ‘What’s going on there?’ [on Konate decision]
“Their manager is a fine judge quite obviously, because he looked at it and thought, ‘I’ve got to get him off.’ That was the proof in itself.
“Massive decisions today from the officials that were a head scratcher.
“The decision changed the feel of the game for them [Liverpool], because I’d be amazed if they didn’t think they’d got away with one.”