Jamie carragher and chris sutton disagree on who is to blame for liverpool’s controversial winner against nottingham forest, with referee paul tierney pointing to an error shortly before the goal: “it was a decision made in a different post code!” | forest can’t complain about liverpool winner, according to football digest.
Liverpool won a 1-0 victory in the 99th minute thanks to a goal from striker darwin nunez, less than two minutes after referee paul tierney mistakenly gave jurgen klopp’s side a drop ball when it should’ve gone to forest.
The decision has sparked outrage, but some believe that the relegation champions only have themselves to blame when it comes to nunez’s winner, particularly former chelsea star hudson-odoi, who joined forest this season.
“i can understand why they are so upset,” liverpool legend carragher said on sky sports’ monday night football.
I’m going to put myself in the shoes of nuno espirito santo, forest’s manager, and i expect him to be enraged or outraged with the officials, but also with his own players.
“in this situation with callum hudson-odio and diaz, i go back to the forest players and nuno.” Callum hudson-odoi should make sure luis diaz does not take the ball off him. “diaz’s problem is that he is fighting for a title and he needs the ball back there.”
They make it seem as if it was a felony with the head injury and the statutes, but callum hudson-odoi, don’t give luis diaz the ball.
“liverpool weren’t helped by paul tierney,” ex-premier league striker sutton said on the it’s all kicking off podcast. I’m sick and tired of this whole debate and nottingham forest’s blame game.
“it was one minute, 52 seconds (between tierney and liverpool giving the ball to liverpool and the goal). It’s about two minutes, right?
I think he left himself open to this whole attack on paul tierney, and i’m not contesting any of it. But the owner (evangelos marinakis) is on the field, and some of the forest coaches are getting involved, causing a lot of angst.
“i hope they expressed the same rage as hudson-odoi, who may have cleared the ball. Nottingham forest players could have cleared the ball on two occasions, but they didn’t. So don’t blame paul tierney for the whole thing a minute and 52 seconds after it happened.
“had they gone straight up the other end for a few seconds and scored?” “had they gone straight up the other end for a few seconds?” I’d understand that much more than i do at this moment in time.
Gary neville’s point of view was echoed by him, who denied allegations that tierney made a “monumental mistake” and said that “two minutes in football is an absolute age.” Nuno refused to comment on tierney’s decision, telling bbc sport after the match: “i don’t want to talk about the referee, sorry.” We are sad, we are sad, we are sad, and we are sad. “
