Milos Kerkez is second Liverpool star to get ruthless Arne Slot treatment

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He was booked for diving in the Burnley penalty area in the 22nd minute and shortly after received a warning for fouling Jaidon Anthony.

This led Slot to the tough call of pulling his left-back out of the firing line nine minutes before half-time, with Andy Robertson stepping in.

Not long after, he collided with the same Brazilian and was lucky not to receive a second yellow card.

"I saw him [Konate] getting his first yellow, that was for me a soft yellow.

If he would have gotten the second one for a shoulder push that would again have been a soft yellow," Slot explained after that game.

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I think the referee felt the same, that's why he didn't [show a second yellow]

But I've watched football so many times in my life and I know that a player and a referee is then under pressure.

"So every next foul will lead again to maybe a referee that thinks 'maybe I now should give him' – I think back on three days ago

Because you can play football knowing in your head you can make a foul against such good players as Wolves have."

On Sky Sports commentary duty for the Burnley game, Jamie Carragher had branded Kerkez's decision to dive in the opposition 18-yard box 'absolutely stupid', and praised referee Michael Oliver for reacting quickly.

On the Hungarian's substitution for Robertson itself, the defender-turned-pundit added: "It's always a shock for any player when they see their number come up in the first half but I think that's good management from Arne Slot.

"It was absolutely ridiculous what he tried to do in the first-half trying to win the penalty and then getting that foul