Liverpool’s Andoni Iraola fumes at substitution delay before Forest penalty

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“I cannot explain because I don’t have an explanation,” said the exasperated Liverpool head coach.“I wanted to make those substitutions about three minutes before. I still don’t know the reason why we couldn’t make the subs.

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