- Vitor Pereira has insisted that Ibrahima Konate should have been sent on Sunday
- Arne Slot has admitted the risk of a second yellow card forced its substitution
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The Chief of the Wolves, Vitor Pereira, smoked to Ibrahima Konate, should have been sent since Liverpool recorded a 2-1 victory in Anfield to maintain his seven-point leadership at the top of the Premier League.
The French defender Konate had shown a yellow card after half an hour to withdraw Matheus Cunha when he was in the counterattack and then committed a foul on the same player minutes after he could have resulted in a second yellow.
Pereira thought it was a crucial moment in the game, especially since his team accumulates in the pressure in search of a late draw. Cunha reduced the deficit of the wolves to one after Luis Díaz and Mohamed Salah had put Liverpool two goals in the first half.
“I am not the referee but for me,” said Pereira. “What I say now will change anything more than in my opinion the second yellow card should be shown.”
The Portuguese was also reserved for offspring and he said: 'I don't know (why I was carded), maybe because I'm emotional when I'm competing, I'm not watching a movie on the couch. I am there to compete, we must understand the emotional side of the game.
“It was not disrespectful in my opinion, I must have said, but I am trying to accept many decisions today. We must play the first half while we play the second half, this is what I want to see in my team: personality, courage and identity .
The Lobos Manager, Vitor Pereira, has insisted that Ibrahima Konate should have received a second yellow card
The Liverpool defender was already reserved after an anterior Tackle against Matheus Cunha
Liverpool's manager Arne Slot admitted that the risk of Konate receiving a second yellow card forced him to make a substitution
Liverpool chief Arne Slot added: 'I took away (konate) for that. I saw him obtain his first yellow, which for me was a soft yellow. If he had obtained his second for a shoulder thrust, that would have been a soft yellow again, so he would have been sent by two soft yellow.
'I think the referee felt the same, that's why he did not reserve it again). But I have seen football so many times in my life and I know that a player and the referee are under pressure. So, each next foul will lead to an arbitrator who thinks it should give it.
“So I had to remove it because you can't play football knowing in your head that you can't do a foul against players as good as wolves.”
In the nerves, Slot said: “I don't think the nerves were too much, it had to do with how the wolves came out and on Wednesday we showed an immense mentality in the most difficult circumstances we face this season.”
'And then climb 2-1 and play the last 10, 15 minutes with the way we played with all the things that happened in those 15, 20 minutes and go out with a draw was very, very difficult to take.
'That is why these victories are probably even more important than when you surpass Tottenham as we did here two weeks ago for 4-0. It is very difficult to win a football game: people always feel like “Ah, you have Mo Salah, what you are talking about, he will always score a goal.”
'No, it is very difficult to win a football game every three days after everything you spend in a season, so this victory is important in a difficult week in which we hope to show the same mentality against both teams but play better In the ball.