Wolves Boss Vorror Pereira Fumed Ibrahima Konate should have been dismissed because Liverpool takes a nail biting 2-1 win over Anfield to give their seven-point lead on top of the Premier League.
After half an hour, the French defender Konate had shown a yellow card for the withdrawal of Matheus Cunha when he stood on the counterattack and then committed an error on the same player later that could have led to a second yellow.
Pereira thought it was a crucial moment in the game, especially given his team piled on the pressure looking for a late equalizer. Cunha reduced the deficit of the wolves to one after Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah Liverpool had set two goals in the first half.
“I'm not the referee but yes for me,” said Pereira. “What I am saying now will not change anything, but in my opinion the second yellow card must be shown.”
The Portuguese were also booked for descent and he said: 'I don't know (why I was carded), perhaps because I am emotional when I compete, I don't watch a movie on the couch. I am there to compete, we have to 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 have to play the first half while we played the second half, this is what I want to see in my team – the personality, courage and identity. Wolves woke up during the break. '
Liverpool -Baas Arne Slot added: 'That is why I removed (Konate) off. I saw him getting his first yellow – that was a soft yellow for me. If he had received his second for a shoulderow, it would have been a soft yellow yellow so that he would have been sent for two soft yellow.
“I think the referee felt the same thing, that's why he didn't (book him again). But I have watched football so often in my life and I know that a player and the referee are under pressure. So every next mistake will lead to perhaps a referee who thinks he might have to give it.
“So I had to play him because you can't play football knowing in your head that you can't make a mistake against such good players like Wolves.”
On the nerves, Slot said: 'I don't think the nerves were too much, it had to do with how wolves came out and Wednesday we showed an enormous mentality in the most difficult circumstances we encountered this season.
'And then go up for 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 to come up with a draw was very, very difficult to take.
'That is why these victories are probably even more important than when you play Tottenham as we did here two weeks ago for 4-0. It's so hard to win a game of football – people always have the feeling “Ah, you have mo Salah, what are you talking about, he will always score a goal”.
'No, it is so difficult to win a football match every three days after everything you go through in a season. But play better on the ball. '
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