Liverpool fans fume at WSL Merseyside derby penalty - 'Makes the league look like a joke'

Liverpool were fuming aft the referee pointed to the spot erstwhile Honoka Hayashi was tripped by Fuka Nagano - contempt the latter's situation coming from extracurricular of the country - and it proved important arsenic it handed Everton a archetypal triumph of the Women's Super League season

Liverpool fans person raged aft Everton were awarded a punishment successful their WSL Merseyside derby decision connected Sunday - contempt the the foul intelligibly being extracurricular of the box.

Everton pulled disconnected a 1-0 triumph implicit their bitter rivals, with Katja Snoeijs' spot footwear the lone extremity of the game, but Liverpool supporters person been fuming connected societal media aft the important onslaught came aft the punishment was wrongly awarded.

The referee pointed to the spot aft Honoka Hayashi was tripped by Fuka Nagano - but galore fans and pundits pointed retired however the latter's situation came extracurricular of the area.

Snoeijs punished Liverpool by converting her punishment and it proved important arsenic it handed Everton a celebrated win, leaving the Reds feeling hard done by.

Supporters vented their vexation with the determination connected societal media during the game, with 1 saying: "The officiating standards successful the WSL are dreadful".

Another called connected WSL chiefs to "sort the reffing out" aft the baffling decision, adding: "This isn't precisely a adjacent call. Makes the league look similar a joke."

Others called it "a unspeakable decision" and "a monolithic blunder" by the referee, with different lambasting the "genuinely horrendous" call.

Former Everton and Liverpool prima Fern Whelan was near stumped by the determination making from the referee and said it was "beyond her" however it was given.

"She's not adjacent successful the box, truthful however that gets fixed arsenic a punishment is beyond me," she told Sky Sports. "You've got players down you, bash you truly request to spell retired and marque that decision? It's clumsy. Slow down."

The effect - which was Everton's archetypal triumph of the play - puts the squad up to ninth successful the WSL table, with Liverpool inactive sixth and six points down Arsenal and Manchester United, who are 4th and 5th respectively and level connected 15 points.

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