Jurgen Klopp has complained that they were very unlucky with some of the referring decisions last night. The Reds crashed out of the EFL Cup after a 1-0 defeat to Southampton in the semifinal.
Shane Long scored in the injury time to prevent Liverpool from a second final appearance in as many seasons. There was a moment when Roberto Firmino’s overhead kick struck Shane Long’s hand inside the penalty box but Referee Martin Atkinson overlooked the matter.
Liverpool were the favourites to overcome a 1-0 deficit from the first leg. This defeat piled more misery on Klopp as the Reds have now won only one match in 2017 in all competitions.
Klopp said, “In the game it looked for me like a penalty.
“But the handball was clear. Long played a clear handball.
“Look, maybe it’s not interesting and I don’t look for excuses or anything, but it’s really hard to accept week by week, week by week. It’s really hard.
“In one of the biggest games against Man United, everybody told me that he was two or three yards offside and nobody really speaks about it.
“Do I have to speak about it? Is it my job to get a fine afterwards? But today the handball, for me, was obvious — 100 percent obvious.
“But how I said, we had a lot of offside goals against us, which should not have been allowed and [a] really rare handball. That’s how it is. It doesn’t feel good.
“That’s two situations that would have been enough — two penalties, [James] Milner [scores] and it’s 2-0 and we don’t talk about anything else.
