Liverpool’s Andoni Iraola angered by substitution delay before Forest penalty

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The penalty wouldn’t have happened if I had made the subs.“I had complained the previous time. I’ll leave you to decide whether it was a penalty or not.”Despite his annoyance over the buildup to Forest’s penalty, Iraola conceded that Liverpool created their own problems for the second week in succession with a sluggish start.He said: “The first half was poor, it was not good enough.

We haven’t controlled the game and after we improved a lot in the second half. We were much more intense, quicker on the ball and had more urgency, but it hasn’t been enough to win the game and we have to blame the first half.“I am frustrated because we want to win, especially at home.

We have come back from two results where we were losing and I like what we have done in the second half, but we haven’t been able to complete the comeback.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“In the first half we were too passive without the ball. But in the first half there was a lack of intensity and we had issues with throw-ins today.”