'Tierney dropped a big clanger': Alan Shearer explains why Liverpool's goal v Forest should not have stood

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'Tierney dropped a big clanger': Alan Shearer explains why Liverpool's goal v Forest should not have stood

"He’s dropped a big clanger, Paul Tierney," Alan Shearer on Match of the Day about Liverpool's goal against Nottingham Forest as he analysed the episode starting from the very beginning.

"He's got it totally wrong. It’s a corner to Forest late on, and Konate gets a head injury.

"He gets knocked down by his goalkeeper, Kelleher, and Paul Tierney doesn't blow [straight away]; Hudson-Odoi has the ball, and then the referee blows because it's a head injury. He blows when Forest have the ball.

"What he does is he then gives the ball unchallenged to the goalkeeper, which is totally wrong and should be a Forest unchallenged drop-ball out on the wing where the ball was stopped. That's who touched it last.

"I get the point of the goal being one minute and 50 seconds later; the point is valid, but if you drop it where Forest should have had it, everything changes. Liverpool don't get the corner, and the goal doesn't happen."

As Jurgen Klopp rightly points out, the same thing happened earlier in the game, but the roles were reversed. Not that it gets mentioned in the media as often because it did not result in anything.

AuthorMichael EllisSourceLiverpool Echo
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