Arne Slot broke his silence on the red card that he was branded in a chaotic end on Wednesday to the Merseyside Derby.
In a few moments of nine points, Liverpool clearly came to the top of the Premier League table after he came from behind to lead local rivals Everton thanks to strikes by Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah.
But in the eighth minute of the stop time, Toffees defender James Tarkowski shot in a volley to activate chaotic scenes that fans ran in the last derby in Goodison Park.
After full -time, meanwhile, ugly scenes came to happen after Abdoulaye Doucoure had threw the road fans, which led Curtis Jones to confront him and both players were sent on the back of a massive fight.
Then Slot himself was sent in addition to his assistant Sipke Hulshoff on the back of a collision with referee Michael Oliver who saw him seem to pull the referee during a mansuking and exchanging words.
Now, after he did not participate in a press conference after the competition because of his broadcast, Slot spoke for the first time at the events, about 36 hours later.
“There is now a continuous process and I think I should respect that we should respect that, so can't go into details,” he started. 'What happened was that the extra time, five minutes that were ultimately eight, happened a lot.
“The emotions are going better for me. I would like to do it differently and want to do it differently next time, but I don't want to disrupt the current process. '
As a result, Jones will miss the collision with wolves this weekend, which means that Liverpool is a man on their usual four midfield options.
It means that Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch and Mac Allister will almost certainly start, but Jones will come back for the midweek match against Aston Villa, because he was shown two yellow cards instead of one red.
“The good thing is that we played so many games,” Slot continued and spoke to Jones. “He got a second yellow, I assume that, that's just one game. Next Wednesday there is a competition, he will be back from an injury, so he already missed a few games.
“I really liked him when he came up. It was our best part of the game, the only part of the game where I felt a little comfort and where it felt a little control. That is perhaps because we went 2-1.
'I love to stand up for the team, but I think there are other ways to do that for the team and the fans. I will talk to him about that. But it's the same for me, I should have acted differently after the game.
“But it's an emotional game and sometimes people make the wrong decisions at an emotional moment and that is what I did.”
Expert lure reader Jeremy Freeman has meanwhile lifted the lid on what Slot told to Oliver, both before and after he was fired in Goodison Park. In one clip, Slot could be seen as the approaching of referee Oliver after the full -time whistle. While he walked to the civil servant, the Dutchman said: “Great game.”
They shake hands, with a lock that Oliver pulled in his direction before the civil servant quickly waved a red card out of his pocket.
It has been revealed that a bewildered lock then replied: 'Of course, do you give me a red for that? I will watch it for later. Me and you yes? '
Liverpool – captain Virgil van Dijk also protested with the official and – apparently affirmative that the red card was related to a 'pull' in the handshake – said: 'Hey, Michael, that was not an attraction. Michael, it's not personal '.
The Premier League has now removed a statement that suggests that Slot will receive a touchline ban of two games, referring to his alleged 'offensive, offensive or offensive language'.
Nevertheless, Mail Sport understands that the red before Slot was not only shown because of its handshake, but also as a result of comments from the Liverpool -Baas on two different occasions after the game.
Our expert lure reader then analyzed another clip of the antics after the game that showed that Van Dijk tried to make the situation harmless.
The defender of Liverpool told his teammates 'Go, Hey Go … go inside' before he told Oliver that it was 'nothing personal'. In the same clip, Liverpool Boss Slot was shown and Oliver asks: “We talk afterwards?”
Slot, who spoke with wolves on Sunday before the collision of his side, tried to explain his emotions in the last few moments, which saw his side give the victory and then dealt with a long VAR check.
The offside call was close, while there was also a check for an error in Ibrahima Konate, although the goal was ultimately considered fair.
“Many things happened in extra time that led me to be quite emotional,” he said. “There was a var -incident for two minutes and I thought he could look at the mistake and suddenly I was happy and thought it might be offside. Then you suddenly hear their fans cheer.
“Many things happened in extra time, but it would not be smart to go into every incident.”
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