Leicester City manager, Brendan Rodgers has blasted VAR Paul Tierney following his team’s 6-3 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday evening.
The 48-year-old was furious about the penalty awarded to the Cityzens in the 14th minute which was converted by Riyad Mahrez, to give the hosts double-goal lead.
Although, Youri Tielemans pushed Aymeric Laporte, The Northern Irish manager held that the tackle was not hard enough for penalty kick.
Frustrated, Rodgers challenged the VAR’s decision and interpretation of law while also describing the awarded penalty as ‘really, really soft’ penalty.
Similarly, Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp has also dressed down with a VAR official following side’s controversial draw against Tottenham a week ago.
Meanwhile, the former Liverpool coach, also lamented about the club’s mounting injury crisis as as a cause for the defeat at Etihad Stadium.
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Rodgers said: “The second goal was nowhere near a penalty.”
“It’s so frustrating. Paul Tierney, the VAR, has missed very physical challenges in the last few weeks but deems that a penalty. He (Laporte) has fallen over. It was really, really soft.”
“There’ s no doubt this is a huge challenge. We’ re not getting the violins out. You see what we’ re missing. The players aren’ t available.”
“Offensively we’ re really good but if you’ re missing the players (we are) it’ s a real challenge. We’ re not City, Liverpool or Manc hester Utd.”
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