Angry Aspliquata Shamana was not sent off, Van Dyke: "The gap from a big city"

The Chelsea captain expressed his displeasure that a red card had not been issued to the Senegalese: "It does not matter that a few seconds have passed".

Tuchel confirmed he would meet with Lukaku.

Liverpool stopper: "Championship depends on them"

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02/01/2022

Sunday, 02 January 2022, 21:30

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Summary: Chelsea - Liverpool 2: 2 (Sport 1)

One of the best games of the season took place tonight (Sunday) at Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea II hosting Liverpool third in the 21st round central game of the Premier League.

They parted ways in a rather enjoyable 2-2 and during which we may also have been privileged to see the goal of the season after the spectacular performance of Mateo Kovacic, but immediately after the final whistle the winds blew precisely following an event that occurred about 20 seconds from the opening whistle.

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Saved from a red card after 20 seconds.

Mana (Photo: GettyImages, Catherine Ivill)

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Sadio Mane, the Senegalese from Liverpool who scored the first goal of the game in the ninth minute, hit Aspilicuata in the face in the first minute and received only a yellow card, much to the chagrin of the Chelsea men, whose appearance the referees did not intervene.

Aspiliquata did not hide his opinion on the matter and claimed at the end: "Sometimes we see in the league penalties that are just a joke, sometimes we see moves that endanger others and no action is taken. It was a clear red card, it does not matter that just a few seconds it is red. I can not understand The decision, which is also significant because it would have changed the game. "

Whoever disagreed with Aspliquata is the former player and commentator today, Gameplay Krager who is of course associated with Liverpool in the media has played throughout his career: "It was not an elbow so I do not think it is a red card," he claimed.

Will meet tomorrow with Lukaku.

Tukel protests that Mana was not removed (Photo: GettyImages, Shaun Botterill)

Aspilicoata was also asked about Manchester City opening a double-digit lead at the top, 10 points from them and 11 from Liverpool, admitting: "We need to raise our level. We were already 2-0 behind and Liverpool had a chance to score the third and finish the game, but otherwise "So we played well and we lacked the extension in attack. Of course it is a good result for Manchester City, but it is football and we had to make sure that such a gap does not open."

Like his captain, manager Thomas Tuchel also claimed that Mana should have received a red card and made it clear that it did not matter at all that this was the case already in the opening seconds.

In addition, he confirmed that tomorrow he will talk to Romulo Lukaku, the striker who was sacked from the squad following the interview he gave about three weeks ago and was published only over the weekend and also explained that he was a nuisance because he could not talk to him before the game.

"It was our almost perfect comeback, we were not far from making a comeback, but we can not say that beating Liverpool is a must - this is a team that always has to fight hard and unfortunately we made serious mistakes in the opening," he added of the 2-2 draw. Dual.

Liverpool admit it all depends now on Manchester City.

Van Dyke (Photo: GettyImages, Shaun Botterill)

Liverpool, on the other hand, lost 1-0 to Leicester last week, stumbled for the third time in a row and remained in third place despite having a double advantage 26 minutes later. She will also have to make do in the near future, among others without Muhammad Salah and Sadio Mana, who are going to the African Championships, and it will be interesting to see how she manages without them in the near future.

Captain Jordan Henderson tried to defend Mana at the end: "Sadio always plays hard to win and I was disappointed he got a yellow card because they saw his eyes on the ball and I do not think there was any intention to hit here, but you know better than me."

On the gap from Manchester City, Henderson added: "Chelsea are a good team and we gave everything to win. It is true that this is a good result for City, but we are disappointed because we did not play as we wanted."

The brakeman Virgil Van Dyke also admitted at the end: "It is not impossible to close the gap with Manchester City, but it is a big gap and now it is only Manchester City that can lose the championship. We can not lead 0: 2 and allow them to come back again. "Before the half, but unfortunately we could not meet the goal of getting out of here with three points."

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