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Brendan Rodgers questioned whether the referees are being shown the right angles on the VAR review monitor after Ayoze Perez’s penalty was disallowed in Leicester’s loss to Everton.
Referee Lee Mason initially awarded Leicester a penalty after failing that Perez had been caught by Everton’s Andre Gomes in the visiting penalty area with the hosts 2-0 down with seven minutes to go.
After VAR officer Darren England showed him two replays on the field monitor, Mason overruled his decision. But Rodgers felt that if Mason had had the benefit of seeing other angles, he would have stuck to his initial decision, and said this wasn’t the only time he felt the umpires hadn’t had the whole picture in recent games.
He said: “I thought we should have had the penalty, that would have given us the last 10 minutes to move on, but we are very frustrated that we lost the game because otherwise we have not given away much other than the It’s frustrating word.
“It was a surprise, on the sidelines you could hear the contact and Lee Mason was right. He looked at it again, and the image he is looking at on the screen is not the one that shows Ayoze Pérez received the touch and was cropped in the foot.
“Watching the Fulham-Liverpool match, the referee comes over and takes a look, but as soon as he makes his decision, the picture below clearly shows that it looks like a Fulham penalty.
Only three of Leicester’s eight Premier League victories this season have come at King Power Stadium and their loss at Everton was the third in six home games this season, something Rodgers attributed to a need to be better against. Defensive-minded teams – a topic the Foxes were criticized for under previous leadership Claude Puel.
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“We need to be better, there is no way to escape,” he said. “We need to have a higher quality at home against teams that play deeper.
“The players give everything to the game, effort, mentality, we chose an aggressive team, but we have to show a little more inventiveness and creativity. That is something we hope will continue as the season progresses and we hope that more players will return. . “
Ancelotti: We are where we want to be
Having started the season flying but simmering in recent weeks, back-to-back victories brought Everton to fifth at the end of the game at King Power, one point behind their hosts and back into European contention.
When asked if the victory had firmly reignited the hopes of Everton’s top four, manager Carlo Ancelotti said he would have been content with the campaign ending there and then, and the Toffees embarking on a tour of Europe. League next season.
“We are where we want to be,” he said. “There is only one problem that if the season ends today, we would be satisfied. But the season is very long and we have to keep fighting to stay in this position.
“We were able to repeat the same performance that we did against Chelsea. Solid on defense, when we had the opportunity we scored, and then we controlled the game quite well.
“We were well organized and it is a very important result. First of all, there is a good form from all the players, forwards Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Gylfi Sigurdsson are working hard, the four in back are working well together, no I don’t push much to the sides because it’s hard to find ourselves off balance. “
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