Inter Milan stars rage at 'scandalous' and 'shameful' Liverpool decision - 'We’re angry'

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If you give a penalty like this, then every contact in the box is a penalty.“It hurts to lose a match like this, when you fight for 85 minutes and a penalty like that is awarded, but we have to move on. It was a balanced game and, in my opinion, a draw would have been fair, but the referee decided to award a penalty for what felt like a dive."Manchester City loanee Manuel Akanji was equally unimpressed, as he called the decision ‘one of the softest penalties I’ve ever seen’.“It’s tough because in the end we’ve come away with zero points because I think we were the better team,” he told CBS.

“We had the better chances and in the end, to concede a penalty like this is tough, it’s tough to lose a game like this.“The penalty situation, I mean he pulls his shirt, but it’s a soft pull and obviously if you watch everything in slow motion, everything looks far worse than it actually is. The player runs away from the goal and he pulls his shirt a bit and it’s one of the softest penalties I’ve ever seen.“But in the end we have to be honest, we can’t get in the position to give the referee an opportunity to even whistle for a penalty there.

For me it’s never a pen.”Piotr Zielinski would also share his anger at the decision, saying: “We’re disappointed and angry, because we felt we played well, but perhaps we were just missing that little something in the final third."As for the refereeing decisions, I don’t know – on the pitch it never looked like a foul. “The obvious simulation of throwing himself to the ground.“I don't understand tonight's VAR: it took them three minutes to disallow a very clear handball goal.“They called the referee for pulling his shirt… that way we'd have a million penalties a game.