David Moyes suffered the usual sting of a Liverpool defeat on Sunday as his Everton team went down to a last-second Virgil van Dijk header.
The loss was perhaps a little harsh on the Toffees, who were arguably the better team for much of the match.
But while he had a right to be frustrated by the result, Moyes‘ claim that Everton should have had a first-half penalty for a foul on Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was just pure sour grapes.
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Moyes pins Everton defeat on the referee
Despite all of his experience in losing to the Reds, Moyes has seemingly never mastered the art of taking defeat gracefully.
Instead, he has often tended to point towards refereeing decisions as reasons for his team losing against Liverpool, or anybody else for that matter.
Sunday was no different, and when told during an interview with Everton TV that his team had not had much help from the officials, Moyes took the chance to advocate for Dewsbury-Hall’s incredibly soft penalty shout.
“I don’t think we’ve ever had huge decision in these sorts of games,” the Scotsman predictably lamented.
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“I thought there was a really good shout for a penalty kick on Kiernan when he went through, I’m not sure what else he’d be expected to do. When he goes through he wouldn’t go down unless he was touched or pushed.
“If the touch was too soft then he wouldn’t have gone down, he would’ve stayed on his feet, he’s got a chance of scoring. So, I’m a bit surprised that that wasn’t given.”
Dewsbury-Hall incident was never a penalty
Moyes has come out with some rubbish about Liverpool games in the past, and he never quite seems to see things the way everybody else does.
But this one really takes the cake. You are just not going to get a penalty for a shoulder barge.
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He is right that there was contact, of course there was, but that does not mean it was anything like being a foul.
Dewwbury-Hall did not have a chance to score, as Moyes asserts, instead he was looking for any kind of contact from Ibrahima Konate to hit the turf and scream for a penalty.
Thankfully for Liverpool, though Moyes was conned by his own player, referee Chris Kavanagh was not, and the right decision was reached.
The Everton boss was obviously frustrated on the back of a defeat, but to claim that this was a penalty, or that the Toffees were hard done by at all by the officials on Sunday is just utterly ridiculous.
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