Former England manager slams Florian Wirtz after Liverpool win at Inter Milan

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Florian Wirtz won the penalty which led to Liverpool’s winning goal at Inter (Picture: Getty Images) Former England manager Fabio Capello has accused Florian Wirtz of diving to win Liverpool’s penalty at Inter Milan, labelling the award of a spot-kick a ‘disgrace’. VAR intervened to give a penalty and it proved to be a match-winning decision for Liverpool, but Capello was not impressed, saying the referee should never have rewarded him with a penalty.

Wirtz felt a shirt tug from Alessandro Bastoni (Picture: Getty Images) ‘If that’s a foul, then we’ll get a penalty after every corner kick in the future, because everyone’s always fighting, everyone’s holding onto their jerseys. That was unfair. ‘It’s a disgrace to award such a penalty’.

Inter’s former Arsenal and Manchester United man Henrikh Mkhitaryan was also not impressed, telling Prime Video: ‘I don’t know how they came up with a penalty that never existed but this is football. ‘We are not happy. If you give a penalty like this, then every contact in the box is a penalty.’ Fabio Capello couldn’t believe the decision that was made (Picture: Getty Images) Former referee Keith Hackett had a different opinion, telling Football Insider: ‘There is a great deal of criticism of the award of a penalty kick to Liverpool for a shirt pull. ‘Holding is an offence and you can see the shirt has left the body of the Liverpool player. ‘Now, yes, his exaggeration was pretty appalling.