How do you get ahead of yourself? Lopetegui slams referee for Wolves’ failure to beat Liverpool
Julen Lopetegui, manager of the red label Wolverhampton Wanderers are outraged. that his team had been robbed of victory by the referee In the FA Cup football game, Wolves drew Liverpool with a 2-2 scoreline at Anfield on Saturday night, January 7th.
by last night’s game Both teams fought in a close match, no one gave up. The wolf team was considered able to compete with the home team as a match. And they also threatened to score a goal in the first place from Gonzalo Guedes in the 26th minute, which was considered an error in the ball from Alison Becker that caused the team to be led first. Unforgivable, but the Reds accelerated their own form. And before the end of the first half, he scored an equalizer from Darwin Nunez’s shot and early in the second half. They took the lead in attack, with Mohamed Salah firing to put the Reds 2-1 up at the end.
And it seems to end in a way that Liverpool should have won. But during the minute that Hwang Hee-Chan, the South Korean offensive line Came to score a goal in a 2-2 draw, where the ball went between the legs of a good goalkeeper like Alison Becker, entering the goal in a very shocking way, the Kop fans
Which before the end of the game, the Reds fans almost had another shock, Wolves looked like a 3-2 winner from the corner kick, which Toti Gomes shot the ball crossed in front of the goal. Pass the ball in nicely. But in the end, the assistant referee raised the flag that the stroke was offside. After checking VAR, this ball still cannot be clearly concluded whether it is offside or not. but the visiting team and the door was confiscated. and the game eventually ended in a draw
At the end of the game, the Spanish boss of the Wolf Army showed an expression of dissatisfaction with the decision. And he tried to ask questions about what happened, which Lopetegui opened up to the media: “We have seen it. There was no offside. And I’m sorry to say it’s impossible.”
“People say it’s offside. But we’ve seen that picture. It’s not true at all. It was a mistaken judgment. I myself make mistakes every day and sometimes they (referees) probably do too. But today we got VAR to help and it was depressing. But really sorry, this was not offside.
Lopetegui also said that Salah’s goal should have been offside, although Toti Gomes had a header that missed the moment. before Toti touches the ball again So it’s an advantage.”
“The referee heard our protest. But now everything is like that. We must accept it. but it’s a pity Because we deserve to beat a great team like Liverpool.”
