Gary Neville: Jones's sending off not a red card

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Gary Neville: Jones's sending off not a red card

"I know when you're doing someone. I've done it myself. It's showing the end motion which looks bad," Gary Neville said on Sky Sports when VAR debated sending off Curtis Jones for his tackle on Yves Bissouma.

'His foot just slips. He's gone to tackle the ball. It's not a red card but he'll probably get one and it'll ruin the game.

'You can look at that one of two ways. You slow it down all day long and it looks like a leg breaker. It's one of the ones where he's gone in genuinely and his foot has slipped.

'I'm never sure anymore. My initial reaction is that wasn't a player looking to do the opposition player.'

Even the former Man United captain saw that Jones did not deserve a red card - but he was right to predict that it would be delivered.

The sending off was the start of a tough night for Liverpool who suffered a heartbreaking defeat against Tottenham in injury time through Joel Matip's own goal.

Tottenham – Liverpool 2:1 (1:1, 1:0)30 September 2023, 16:30, Tottenham Stadium
TottenhamVicarioUdogie (Davies 83)van de VenRomeroPorroBissouma (Højbjerg 90)Sarr (Skipp 83)RicharlisonMaddison (Véliz 90)KulusevskiSon (Solomon 69)
LiverpoolBeckerRobertsonvan DijkMatipGomez (Konaté 74)JonesMac Allister (Gravenberch 80)SzoboszlaiDiaz (Endo 73)Gakpo (Jota 46)Salah (Alexander-Arnold 74)
Goals
1:1 - 45+4  Cody Gakpo (Virgil van Dijk)
2:1 - 90+6  Joël Matip (o.g.)

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