Liverpool Champions League “injustice” has been labelled the “death of football”

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Former Inter and Italy goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano went a step further, highly criticising the decision to award a dubious penalty for Alessandro Bastoni’s pull on Florian Wirtz‘s shirt. “Even a top referee I asked told me that this is madness, not a penalty.

Even if he pulls his shirt, it’s not a penalty for me. Even if Alessandro Bastoni is naive, that’s never a penalty.” In truth, it was a harsh decision as Wirtz could have stayed on his feet, but Liverpool will feel they deserved a spot of luck given they were unfortunate to concede a penalty themselves, away at Galatasaray, which also led to a 1-0 loss.

If penalties were awarded for every holding foul, the game would never be played.” On CBS, defender Manuel Akanji, who is on loan from Man City, also disputed the referee’s call: “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.” Finally, Inter player and former Man United attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan added: “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.