Arne Slot is effectively regarded for his calm manner however the referee appointed as lead VAR for the journey to Nottingham Forest beforehand had him erupting with emotion to earn him a yellow card.
Liverpool face an necessary Premier League journey to the Metropolis Floor on Tuesday night, a conflict that would see the hole between the 2 groups scale back to 3 factors or stretch to 9.
Chris Kavanagh will oversee issues on the pitch, his second time officiating the Reds this season, and watching from Stockley Park as lead VAR will likely be John Brooks.
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Brooks will likely be acquainted to Liverpool followers extra his altercations with Jurgen Klopp, however Slot was launched to the referee when proven a yellow card in the course of the 2-1 win over Chelsea in October.
Brooks overturned a penalty with VAR’s help in a sport that regarded past his capability, which Chelsea can have cursed because it performed a component in stirring Anfield to reply.
Referee vs. Forest: Chris Kavanagh
Assistants: Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring
VAR: John Brooks
Fourth official: John Busby
Slot bought swept up within the emotion himself on the touchline with what he was seeing from the referee, incomes himself a yellow card that will contribute to a one-match suspension in a while.
“The reserving got here from the truth that, I believe there have been three or 4 selections that didn’t go in our favour,” Slot defined on the time.
“So it was a handball, I don’t know if it was, however all people was screaming for it, so I did as effectively. Then there was the purple card scenario, then there was the penalty scenario simply afterwards.
“So there have been just a few issues going towards us, and I believe typically you can not maintain your feelings, and that’s what you noticed with me as effectively.”
He added on his “deserved” yellow card: “This was simply as clear because the penalty he ought to have given the second time!”
It’s a good job that Slot doesn’t have any hair to lose as he has been shortly proven why Klopp was constantly left aghast by what he noticed from English officers.
