The captain of Liverpool, Virgil van Dijk, claimed that referee Michael Oliver had no control over a volatile Merseyside derby that achieved a dramatic equalizer for the time of interruption on Wednesday evening.
Beto fired the Toffees from a controversial free kick into an early lead before Alexis Mac Allister quickly balanced. Mohamed Salah disturbed the visitors at the front, but a late – and hotly discussed – Thunderbolt by James Tarkowski ensured that Everton appeared with a 2-2 draw from the last Merseyside derby in Goodison Park.
Oliver blew the last whistle shortly after the equalization of 98 minute, but conspired to spend four red cards before finally leaving the field. Abdoulaye Doucore celebrated feverishly in front of Liverpool’s Away and prompted Curtis Jones to put into the back of the Everton midfielder. Both players were shown second yellow cards.
After a mass scrap broke out, Arne Slot and his assistant Sipke Hulshoff were sent to Oliver for their protests. Van Dijk avoided dismissal, but expressed his own contempt for the referee in a spiky interview after the game.
“I didn’t think the referee had the game under control,” the Dutch skipper sniffed. “Both teams had to deal with it. This was their cup final. I think the referee had a major role in the game, with regard to certain challenges as fouls and similar.”
Tarkowski’s Equalizer was checked by Var for an age when the officers of Stockley Park carefully check whether it is in the establishment of a emphatic fact of the defender’s right -wing trunk outside of pensions or fouls. Ultimately, the decision to award the goal was checked and confirmed by Var.
Van Dijk continued: “I think Abdoulaye Docoure wanted to provoke our fans. I think I saw that and Curtis Jones didn’t think it was right. And then they know what happens if there is a little argument. “
The Everton boss David Moyes was not surprisingly surprisingly about the procedures – even if he angry to lose his midfielder of the first election for suspension. “It was a Mayhem all the game, a bit like an old -fashioned relapse,” the Scots winced the armpits. “The bit after the game is not really what we should talk about. I am disappointed that Doucore gets a red because we are as little as it is. But the place cooked all night.”
Moyes added Schelmisch: “The piece from To-Ing and Frog In the end probably contributed to the entertainment of the night.”