Chris Wilder blasts Simon Hooper after giving Liverpool 'two definite decisions'
Chris Wilder was adamant that Liverpool’s second goal should not have stood in the Reds’ 2-0 victory over Sheffield United on Wednesday night.
Jurgen Klopp's side were already leading 1-0 through a Virgil van Dijk finish when Darwin Nunez tackled Jayden Bogle with a strong sliding challenge in stoppage-time, before he crossed for Dominik Szoboszlai to wrap up all three points.
The Uruguayan was already on a yellow card from referee Simon Hooper at the time for earlier kicking the ball away after coming on as a substitute. And speaking after the final whistle, new United boss Wilder made it clear that he believed Nunez had committed not one but two offences before setting up the second goal.
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“I was most disappointed with the tackle by the centre-forward on Jayden Bogle,” he told reporters. “Twenty-five years ago when I was playing, people would talk about it and say that’s a decent tackle. Might have been aimed at me, that, where you take the ball but you take the man.
“He’s wrapped his legs right around Jayden Bogle and it’s resulted in the second goal. I understand the second goal. I’m not a manager who’s just going to sit back.
“We opened up in the last 10 minutes, we made substitutions and we changed the formation late on. We knew it was going to go to that, and the boy’s found a fabulous finish.
“But I think it’s a foul. I think there is a foul leading up to it where he jumps into Jack Robinson. It’s a foul.”
Wilder was also convinced that his side should have been awarded a second-half penalty for a shove on James McAtee by Ibrahima Konate, while he also wasn’t
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