Mario Balotelli: How Liverpool fans saved him from a red card vs Man Utd in 2015

Mario Balotelli’s time at Liverpool was most certainly tumultuous.

Handed a second chance at life in the Premier League by Brendan Rodgers, ‘Super Mario’ simply couldn’t rekindle the form that he showed during his better moments in a Manchester City shirt.

Despite arriving on Merseyside in great form having scored 30 goals in just 54 matches for AC Milan, Balotelli simply couldn’t live up to the expectations of filling Luis Suarez’s boots just in the way that Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini couldn’t either.

In the end, Balotelli waved goodbye to Anfield with a miserable record of just four goals in 28 games, which featured only a single conversion in Premier League football.

It made for a miserable one-year stint at the end of which Balotelli was loaned back to AC Milan, before being permanently sold to Nice the next summer never to be seen in English football again.

However, for what Balotelli's time in the famous red jersey lacked in terms of quality, it certainly made up for in controversy with there seldom being a dull moment throughout his stay at the club.

Here at GIVEMESPORT, forever astonished by the back catalogue of remarkable Balotelli moments, we recently looked back at when Manchester United came to town in March 2015.

In a game most famous for Juan Mata's stunning bicycle kick as the Red Devils ran away 2-1 victors, Balotelli didn't take kindly to being jeered by the away fans as he left Anfield.

But believe it or not, it wasn't the only viral moment that Balotelli produced that afternoon, which is pretty staggering when you consider that he only entered the action as a 66th-minute substitute.

However, over the course of that half-hour outing, Balotelli almost found himself sent off just in the way that his