Liverpool fans were not impressed with the quality of refereeing in their Europa final clash against Sevilla.
For the third season in row, Sevilla are the Europa League champions after defeating Liverpool 3-1 in St Jakob park, Basel.
Daniel Sturridge’s opener after 35 minutes saw the Reds go into the half as leaders, but the La Liga outfit came out with fire in their bellies in the second half. Sevilla scored three goals with out reply, the first of which from Kevin Gameiro came just seconds into the second half.
However, the game wasn’t without it’s controversy as Liverpool saw several penalty shouts for handball ignored by the referee. At least, two of which came in the first half and just might have changed the course of the game if they were given.
https://twitter.com/LiverpoolGifs/status/733008924933251072
This one from defender Grzegorz Krychowiak was arguably the most nailed-on penalty shout of the game, but the referee let the play continue without pointing to the spot.
Another handball missed by the officials. That's three now https://t.co/bkrrCxG0eS
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) May 18, 2016
As you can imagine, Liverpool fans were not happy at all over what they saw as “piss-poor” officiating during the game.
@SportsJOEdotie even in Gaelic Football that’s a foul!
— Brían Ó Luanaigh (@Looneytours) May 18, 2016
@SportsJOEdotie @Anything_LFC surely that counts as the hand/arm in an unnatural position?
— Andy Nightingale (@anightingale30) May 18, 2016
@SportsJOEdotie handball is big on the continent, truly piss poor sport to watch
— Mark Apostolou (@markapostolou) May 18, 2016
@SportsJOEdotie be a handy little corner back that lad
— Jack Mannion (@JackMannion2) May 18, 2016
The first handball was bad but that one was even worse. How haven’t Liverpool had a penalty yet… The ref is poor.
— Joe Perry (@joep2dpopadip) May 18, 2016
Can Liverpool have a cumulative penalty for handball? The third one looked the best shout
— Graham Dunbar (@gdunbarap) May 18, 2016
Blatant handball and should have been a penalty
— LFC Liverpool FC (@Liverpool_FC_) May 18, 2016
