Marco Silva slaughtered a journalist’s line of questioning in the aftermath of Fulham’s 2-2 draw at Liverpool this afternoon.
The Fulham head coach passionately defended his side’s conduct after an entertaining encounter at Anfield and was incensed that the first question in his post-match interview surrounded a contentious challenge by goalscorer Andreas Pereira.
Silva was astonished at being asked about Pereira escaping a red card for a tackle on Ryan Gravenberch and Issa Diop’s early clash with Luis Diaz – and disagreed with the assertion that Fulham’s players were fortunate.
“Do you think? And the fouls from Liverpool, they are not close to red cards, no? I didn’t see these moments, but you have all of them. If I go inside, I can probably give you some more 50/50 decisions from the referee, but you have two. If you go through the whole game, you are going to see 50/50s against them, for sure.
I want to talk about the game, but if you are asking me about two 50/50 moments, we are going to be here all afternoon. It’s better to talk about the game. It’s tough to play at Anfield and I think our guys did really well. Liverpool can complain about the red card, since it’s a foul [from Robertson], it should be a red card. I can complain about the first goal that they scored because the foul on Kenny [Tete].”