Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister of Liverpool remonstrate with referee Michael Oliver in the course of the Premier League match between Everton FC and Liverpool FC at Goodison Park on February 12, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
Michael Oliver was once more on the centre of controversy within the Everton v Liverpool Merseyside derby match, with former PGMOL chief, Keith Hackett, saying he obtained a call fallacious.
It was the ultimate derby at Goodison Park, earlier than the Toffees transfer to Bramley-Moore Dock and into Everton Stadium.
Michael Oliver obtained it fallacious says Keith Hackett
The match gave the impression to be going comparatively nicely till Everton equalised within the 98th-minute, when all hell broke unfastened after James Tarkowski fired in an unimaginable leveller.
Referee Michael Oliver speaks to Virgil van Dijk, Luis Diaz and Alisson Becker of Liverpool on the finish of the Premier League match towards Everton. (Picture by Carl Recine/Getty Photographs)
Match official, Oliver, making an attempt to maintain management, despatched off three individuals, together with Liverpool supervisor, Arne Slot.
There seemed to be recommendations that within the lead as much as Everton’s equaliser, Oliver didn’t see a blatant foul which might’ve seen Liverpool win the sport as Tarkowski’s strike would’ve been dominated out.
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Michael Oliver received’t take cost of future Arsenal v Man Metropolis matches due to controversy, and England legend, Alan Shearer, has lately criticised Oliver too.
It was nicely earlier than the injury-time controversy in Wednesday evening’s sport that Keith Hackett, the previous head of PGMOL, believed that Michael Oliver wasn’t having his greatest evening.
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“Liverpool have been on the fallacious finish of a poor resolution by Michael Oliver to award Everton a free kick which led to their first objective,” he stated to Soccer Insider.
“There was no foul. Oliver obtained it fallacious.”
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Although Hackett’s observations will likely be welcomed by Liverpool followers, that’s unlikely to dampen their ire after Everton have been in a position to seize some extent on the dying.
It will appear {that a} potential foul within the lead as much as the hosts second objective wasn’t noticed by the official and that, coupled with essentially the most marginal offside selections getting into Everton’s favour due to VAR, will nearly actually depart a bitter style within the mouth.