Liverpool’s Diogo Jota should not have been sent off in last Saturday’s controversial Premier League clash against Tottenham in north London, a Premier League panel has said.
Jota saw red after picking up two yellow cards in quick succession in the second half, both for challenges on Spurs left-back Destiny Udogie.
The Portuguese winger’s dismissal saw the Reds reduced to nine men after Curtis Jones was also sent off in the first half and despite a brave rearguard action in the latter stages of the game, Spurs sealed a dramatic late win as Joel Matip scored an own goal in the sixth minute of added time.
All the talk since the game has been around the VAR mistake which saw Liverpool’s Luis Diaz denied a perfectly good goal in the first half, but manager Jurgen Klopp spoke about Jota’s red card in his post-match press conference.
In it, the Reds boss said he thought the first card should not have been given as he spoke of ‘crazy’ and ‘unfair’ decisions at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
But now, ESPN have revealed that the Premier League’s Independent Key Match Incidents Panel has ruled that Jota’s second challenge did not merit a card either.
“The majority deemed the decision as incorrect as they felt it did not meet the threshold for a yellow card,” the report said, revealing that the five members had voted 3-2 against a booking.
Premier League’s Independent Key Match Incidents Panel is made up of five members, featuring three former players or coaches, in addition to one representative each from the Premier League and PGMOL.
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