Everton are not owed any apology for Liverpool loss - Sean Dyche should take a look in the mirror
I am confused by the Everton fans suggesting they were robbed by the referee during Saturday's Merseyside derby.
The only decision that went against Everton was Konate not being shown a second yellow card and, yes, he should have been sent off. The referee made a mistake there, but don’t forget he made a bad error with the penalty we received. It had to go to VAR to even be awarded despite being as clear as day.
A lot of people have been suggesting decisions went the way of Liverpool because of all the noise made by the club on the back of Luis Diaz’s disallowed goal at Tottenham Hotspur last month. If that was the case, why didn’t Craig Pawson give us a penalty for the Michael Keane handball? I could see it from 200 yards away up in the stands, doing the commentary. Everyone in the stadium saw it, but the referee didn’t? It was only approved after a VAR review, which quashes that argument being put forward by Evertonians.
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There was another penalty we could have had before that when Nathan Patterson wiped out Luis Diaz inside the box, which was just brushed over and not assessed. The referee did OK during the game, but made three wrong decisions: the Konate second yellow, not giving the Luis Diaz penalty and the Keane spot-kick not being awarded right away.
Another talking point was the Ashley Young red card, but no Everton fan can seriously moan about that. The first challenge was a booking and then he got away with kicking the ball away shortly afterwards. It was as though he didn’t want to play the game and couldn’t wait to get off the pitch! I
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