Curtis Jones: Liverpool to appeal red card given to midfielder during defeat at Tottenham

Liverpool are preparing to appeal the red card given to Curtis Jones during their controversial 2-1 defeat at Tottenham on Saturday.

The midfielder was sent off for fouling Yves Bissouma in the 26th minute after a VAR intervention.

Referee Simon Hooper had initially shown Jones a yellow card but changed his decision after being advised to go to the pitchside monitor.

Sky Sports News has been told Liverpool feel the tackle did not meet the threshold for excessive force as the 22-year-old made enough contact with the ball and was trying to control it by rolling over it, while there was no basis or intention for serious foul play.

After the defeat in north London, Jurgen Klopp said: "He had full power on the ball, rolls over the ball and then he hits the decisive part of the leg.

"When you see it in slow motion it looks horrendous, but when you see it in real time it's not even that close to being bad. It wasn't even close to being on purpose.

"The game is in real time but we judge it in slow motion."

Jones faces a three-game ban if the red card is not overturned and would sit out Liverpool's Premier League fixtures against Brighton, Everton and Nottingham Forest.

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