Frank Lampard compares Everton youngster to Chelsea's Mason Mount

Frank Lampard has refuted suggestions that Anthony Gordon goes down too easily after the Everton youngster went to ground twice in the Liverpool penalty area but was denied a spot-kick on both occasions, being shown the yellow card for simulation after the first incident.

Lampard declared straight after the game at Anfield that he felt the second claim would have been given if it had been a challenge on Mohamed Salah at the other end and Everton wrote to the PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the group responsible for improving refereeing standards) to ask why they weren’t awarded a penalty.

Asked if he thought that Gordon goes down too easily, the Blues boss said: “I don’t think that’s the case, I think Anthony’s booking was the first of his senior career for simulation, someone will check me on that maybe but I know that’s what I’ve been told.

“If you’re looking at attacking players in the league, forward players, fast players that change direction very quickly and look at them when they change direction, if somebody sticks their leg out and makes contact, I think you can go back and find a lot of clips that look very similar to the first half incident. Whether that’s a penalty or not, I’m not going to sit here and say that’s a stonewall penalty but there’s definitely a contact.

“The second half one is a penalty in my opinion. It won’t be in everyone’s opinion but in my firm, firm opinion it’s a penalty because Anthony was ahead of the defender, the defender stepped on his foot and gave him a push – not a big one – but one at pace, to knock him over and we didn’t get a penalty for it.

“None of us in this room run as quickly as Anthony or change direction as quickly as him and at that speed lots of