Shearer: Referee 'dropped a clanger' in build-up to Liverpool controversial win

Match of The Day pundits Alan Shearer and Jermaine Jenas have claimed referee Paul Tierney made a mistake in the lead up to Liverpool's late win over Nottingham Forest.

Jurgen Klopp's men snatched all three points deep into injury-time thanks to a header by substitute Darwin Nunez.

However, controversy struck as play had stopped for a head injury to Ibrahima Konate over a minute earlier, as Callum Hudson-Odoi shaped to cross from a dangerous position. Konate recovered quickly and Tierney ruled that Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher should restart play.

Yet instead of returning possession, Kelleher picked out a team-mate and Liverpool went on the attack before eventually finding the winning goal.

Shearer believes Nunez's late header may not have come about if Forest were given the drop ball unchallenged.

Speaking on Match of The Day, he said: 'He's dropped a big clanger Paul Tierney. He's got it totally wrong. He just blows when Forest have the ball. But what he then does is he give the ball back unchallenged drop ball to the goalkeeper which is totally wrong.

'It should ba a forest unchallenged drop ball. It wasn't in the box it was outside the box. I get the time point, it was a minute and 50 seconds later but and it's a big but, if you drop it where Forest should have had the drop everything changes. '

Former midfielder Jenas mirrored those views, saying: 'It was a shocking decision. The time thing is valid because the game is different at that point. Time added on, Forest have got liverpool under pressure.

'Hudson-Odoi might get another corner, there might be another shot on goal. To release that pressure in that moment at that point in the game is massive'.

The controversial decision resulted in Forest coach Steven