ASTON VILLA vs LIVERPOOL - Gerrard ‘earns’ an opening win for Reds
Saturday 11th August 2007
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was fortunate to be awarded the free kick that lead to the last-minute winner against Villa as Petrov quite clearly got a piece of the ball before Gerrard ran into him. Despite Martin O’Neill’s remarkable restraint in his post-match conference, Alan Hansen calling out a Liverpool player for simulation says it all really. It’s a historical repeat for Steven as he was involved in the first Right Result incident of last season when during the opening game against Sheffield United he was considered lucky to be awarded the penalty that gave the Reds a last-gasp draw.
The Right Result is a 1-1 draw.
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1. Franz | August 13th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Why the hell is it that Gerrard consistently gets away with diving and conning the referee. He is a good player for sure but he is very guilty of this. If he was a foreign player and not the England VC I bet people would get on his back about it..
2. Ben | August 13th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
What about the penalty decision that should never have been? The ball took a deflection and hit Carragher, his arm was by his side and never moved towards the ball.
The right result should have been 1-0.
3. Brian | August 13th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Carra’s handball was clearly ball-to-hand, should never have been a penalty!
4. Joey | August 14th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Thing about the ball-to-hand is that so much of the time the refs give them that I think you have to expect the worst, so it’s not that much of a surprise to see it given unfortunately. I agree that it shouldn’t have been a pen but I do think that the Gerrard free kick was much more dubious if I’m cold about it, and so 1-1 makes some sense. Good to see the Reds get 3 points though in reality (which is what counts!) - about time we got off to a start before October!!!!!
5. chris | August 14th, 2007 at 9:26 am
well, saw this on MOTD and it wasnt a free kick, he just ran into the player! My good mate who happens to be a villa fan wasnt too pleased! but….. thats football. video technology anyone?
6. richard | August 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
the fair result was a liverpool win, dominated the match and should have scored a hatful. and in my opinion it was a freekick because despite making contact with the ball petrovs still pulled gerrard down illegally.
7. Colm | May 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
How come when Ronaldo scores freekicks from a Man U player diving rightresult ignores it but when its Liverpool they disallow the goal?
They never disallowed the first Birm goal against Arsenal either when that resulted from a wrongly given freekick.
rightresult doesnt seem consistent with teams
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