Liverpool flop hurls VAR monitor to ground and fumes over controversial decision

Former Liverpool striker Iago Aspas fumed at a VAR intervention that denied his Celta Vigo team-mates an injury-time penalty on Saturday, and was so angry he threw the pitchside monitor to the floor.

The Spaniard's time at Anfield can't exactly be looked back on fondly, solely because supporters didn't see enough of him the two years he was active at the club - though the less said about his corner against Chelsea in that dreaded May 2014 meeting the better.

One goal against then-League One side Oldham Athletic was the return on investment the Reds got for £7m, so he was shipped off to Sevilla on loan in the 2014/15 campaign until he was able to return to Celta permanently afterwards.

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Since then he has managed to reignite his good career in his homeland, scoring 145 over the last eight years and without the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez in his way, would have been the top goalscorer in a single La Liga season by now.

Now he has hit the headlines for a reason other than his magic goalscoring touch, coincidentally in a match against his former loan club.

Celta arrived into the meeting at their Estadio de Balaidos against the reigning Europa League champions in the drop zone, capable of climbing as high as 16th with a win. Carl Starfelt put them on the right track to achieving that with a 22nd-minute strike.

However midway through the second half things began to go wrong as they were reduced to 10 men. Aspas was taken off by his manager in the 70th minute to sure up the defence, to no avail though as Youssef En Nesyri equalised in