Arne Slot defends Andy Robertson after expensive pink card in Fulham draw
Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot has supplied his assist to left-back Andy Robertson after his expensive pink card in Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Fulham.
Robertson was proven a straight pink card simply 17 minutes into the sport after a last-man foul on Harry Wilson, failing to regulate an tried interception earlier than lunging to try to cease a direct assault on aim.
With Liverpool already 1-0 down on the time, it left the Reds with an actual mountain to climb they usually wanted a late strike from substitute Diogo Jota to salvage a degree.
After the sport, Slot argued Robertson was making an attempt to shake off a knock he picked up earlier within the recreation and was maybe not in his finest bodily situation when he discovered himself confronted with Wilson’s assault.
“I believe what the crew confirmed, the character they confirmed, that is additionally what Robbo confirmed,” Slot mentioned. “Generally in case you get a kick like this, two studs on a knee, that may harm for a couple of minutes. Then, in case you simply carry on working, it will get higher and higher and that is what we had been hoping for.
“Not least as a result of I solely had one defender on the bench, who was not a left full-back as properly. So, we had been hoping he was managing to return via it and I believe he did fairly properly, however the second I seen he wasn’t fully himself was the one time they put the ball in behind and he began working.”
Slot continued: “He was simply in a position to head it again to Ali [Alisson], however I believed, ‘OK, let’s have a look at how this continues’ and I believe it was fairly rapidly afterwards the place he conceded the pink card. Nothing in charge on him, [it was] character that he wished to proceed as a result of he acquired fairly a tough knock on his knee with two studs. Sadly, it led to a pink card that was a deserved pink card.”
As Robertson was dismissed for denying a goal-scoring alternative, reasonably than violent conduct, he’ll solely serve a one-game ban and can subsequently miss the midweek Carabao Cup quarter-final conflict with Southampton.
