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24th December 2023
02:03pm GMT
"Yeah, of course,' the 22-year-old chuckled in an interview with Viaplay after he was asked about the incident.
'It was a penalty but I’m not the ref and they have to accept (it)," ," said Saliba, as he picked up the man-of-the-match award after the game.
Jamie Carragher tweeted about Saliba's comments, though some supporters felt that Saliba had misinterpreted the question, that he was speaking about Kai Havertz' penalty claim instead. https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1738671941551116665 Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was frustrated about the decision after the game, claiming that his team should have been awarded a penalty. "The penalty situation is a weird situation, I don't know if the ref can see it, but you look at it and I'm not sure how you can say it's not a penalty. "I’m pretty sure someone will explain it to me about why it wasn’t a handball, but I don’t know how. "I don't say the ref can see it because I have no clue where he was at that moment. "But that's another question. When somebody sits in the office, how can they not come to the conclusion that it might be worth having another look at it." Arsenal had taken the lead early on after Saliba's centre-half partner Gabriel scored an early header, from a free-kick by Martin Odegaard. Liverpool struck back to level the game before half-time, with Mo Salah collecting a raking Trent Alexander Arnold delivery before turning Oleksandr Zinchenko inside out. The Ukrainian full back struggled on Salah throughout the game but was left on for the full ninety minutes by his manager Mikel Arteta. https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1738653935185891478 Read more:Explore more on these topics:
