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The reason why Ibrahima Konate avoided a shipment during Liverpool's victory over Wolves has been revealed.
Arne Slot's team moved seven points at the top of the Premier League table after a 2-1 victory in Anfield, thanks to Luiz Díaz and Mohammed Salah's goals.
However, things could have been very different for the Reds after the defender Konate was close to being fired for a challenge about Matheus Cunha de Wolves.
The Liverpool defender, who had already shown a yellow card before in the game, appeared on the shoulder of Barcaza Cunha after the striker hit him to a header.
The Chief of Los Lobos, Vitor Pereira, was furious for the decision and argued, after the party, that Konate should have been expelled.
However, according to The timesA directive given to the referees at the beginning of the 2024-25 campaign probably saved the defender from being fired.
Ibrahima Konate avoided a shipment despite a clumsy challenge in Matheus Cunha de Wolves
The Liverpool defender flew to Cunha, after the Brazilian hit him to a header
The departure states that the referees of the Premier League were encouraged to raise the threshold for physical contact that should be considered a fault.
The instructions were initially given to officials last summer, however, they were reinforced again in early January.
It is claimed that the directive would help the game to 'flow better without interruption' and allow fans to be 'more committed to the drama of the game'.
It is reported that this change was made in an attempt to reflect the physical nature that has generally expected from English football.
The Chief of Los Lobos, Pereira, thought it was a crucial moment in the game, especially since his team accumulates in the pressure in search of a late equalizer. Cunha reduced the deficit of the wolves to one after Díaz and Salah had put two goals to Liverpool.
“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.
The Liverpool defender was already reserved after an anterior Tackle against the Brazilian
Vitor Pereira insisted that Ibrahima Konate should have received a second yellow card
“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 .
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. Then, every next foul will lead to an referee 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.”