Arne Slot criticizes Baris Alper Yilmaz: 'It's as if he received the worst blow in his life...'
Liverpool manager Arne Slot made statements ahead of the away game against Chelsea and touched on the Galatasaray game and Barış Alper Yılmaz's penalty. Here are the details...
Liverpool lost 1-0 to Galatasaray in Istanbul in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday evening. Victor Osimhen scored the winning goal for Cimbom from the penalty spot in the 16th minute. Liverpool manager Arne Slot criticized Baris Alper Yilmaz over the penalty decision in the Galatasaray match at a press conference ahead of tomorrow night's match against Chelsea.
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'EÄER BUNU Ä°STEMÄ°YORSA...'
'Ekitike stays standing, the other player falls to the ground'
"We are much better than that, even if Hugo Ekitike is facing the goalkeeper, even if he is tugged on the shoulder two or three times, he does his best to stay upright, just like most of our players do. A minute later, in the other penalty area, a player feels it, he goes down as if he has received the worst blow in his life and the referee gives a penalty."
'If we had the referee from the Galatasaray game we wouldn't have lost to Palace'
Arne Slot continued: "I repeat, it can happen and we have to be better than that, it doesn't matter if you are lucky or unlucky, smart or not, if you score from set-pieces or if you concede two goals like in the Palace game. By the way, if we had a referee like we had against Galatasaray, we wouldn't have lost against Palace because this referee blew his whistle in the eighth minute! But again, it has nothing to do with the results at the moment. We have to do better and we will try."
