{"id":24798,"date":"2023-08-21T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/?p=24798"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:28:53","slug":"liverpool-to-contest-mac-allister-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/news\/liverpool-to-contest-mac-allister-red-card","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool to contest Mac Allister red card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liverpool to appeal red card<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Klopp claims dismissal was \u201charsh\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Early season controversies with VAR continue<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Liverpool are set to contest Alexis Mac Allister&#8217;s red card following their 3-1 victory over Bournemouth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24-year-old Argentine midfielder is facing a three-game suspension for a challenge in which he caught Ryan Christie&#8217;s foot during the 58th minute at Anfield on Saturday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VAR slammed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp expressed his belief that the red card was &#8220;harsh&#8221; and stated that his team had already suffered enough due to the dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker criticised the decision on social media, describing it as &#8220;nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first half of the match, Liverpool were awarded a contentious penalty after Joe Rothwell was judged to have fouled Dominik Szoboszlai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both decisions were made by referee Thomas Bramall without intervention from the video assistant referee (VAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Howard Webb, the chief refereeing officer for Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), indicated recently that officials aim to minimise interference in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the opening weekend of the Premier League, Webb personally contacted Wolves to apologise after they were not given a late penalty against Manchester United when Andre Onana collided with Sasa Kalajdzic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following that decision, the three officials at the centre of the controversy &#8211; referee Simon Hooper, VAR Michael Salisbury, and assistant VAR Richard West &#8211; were not assigned to officiate in the subsequent round of fixtures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mac Allister awaits appeal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Should the appeal be successful Mac Allister will be available to face Newcastle United at St James\u2019 Park. Bettors looking to have a punt on this game, and Liverpool\u2019s subsequent two matches, will need to monitor the outcome and decide if Mac Allister\u2019s absence or potential availability affects their selections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are set to contest Alexis Mac Allister&#8217;s red card following their 3-1 victory over Bournemouth in the Premier League. The 24-year-old Argentine midfielder is facing a three-game suspension for a challenge in which he caught Ryan Christie&#8217;s foot during the 58th minute at Anfield on Saturday.&nbsp; VAR slammed Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp expressed his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[645],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24802,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions\/24802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}