Liverpool were petrified against Man City but Michael Oliver now has a case to answer

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And I simply couldn’t believe what I was seeing from Liverpool.I thought after the recent wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid that we were back on track. For the penalty, Conor Bradley was in control of the situation so I have no idea what Konate was doing coming across and making problems where there weren’t any.With Erling Haaland missing from the spot, we got away with that one.

But we just didn’t heed that warning and ended up conceding two goals that could so easily have been avoided.The cross for the first should have been closed down but even then Konate only needed to head the ball away properly and couldn’t even do that.The second one was unlucky with the deflection, but why weren’t Liverpool’s players closing down Nico Gonzalez? It was completely needless.We just didn’t compete in our individual battles, we didn’t win enough second balls and going forward we were a nonentity.

It was so, so disappointing to watch after what happened on Tuesday.In the second half we were a lot better, but at 2-0 down you really need to be scoring the next one and we didn’t do that. All the talk over him not signing a contract and potentially moving is clearly affecting him.Ref justice for RedsWhen Liverpool had their goal disallowed at Manchester City, I wasn’t surprised to discover Michael Oliver was involved as the VAR.Many officials would have deemed Virgil van Dijk’s header a goal and said Andy Robertson was not interfering with play while in an obvious position.Indeed, City themselves had a similar goal allowed at Wolves last season.Oh, and it can’t be deemed sour grapes as Liverpool didn’t deserve to be back in the game at that point.But it would have been a massive turning point, and getting in level at half-time would have made for a very different game.