Steve Cooper takes swipe at Liverpool with ‘interesting’ comment about two moments

Steve Cooper appeared to take a swipe at Liverpool when suggesting the outcomes of two key decisions could’ve and perhaps should’ve been different.

Nottingham Forest took Liverpool to the limit in a pulsating FA Cup clash at the City Ground. Spurred on by a raucous home crowd, Forest went toe-to-toe with the Reds and created just as much in the clear-cut chances department.

Indeed, just moments before Diogo Jota snatched the winner, Forest themselves could’ve taken the lead. A breakaway down Liverpool’s left saw three Forest stars overload the far post.

Philip Zinckernagel latched on to a perfectly-placed cross, but his cushioned effort flew agonisingly wide of Alisson Becker’s post.

Instead, it was Liverpool who took the spoils through Jota after the Portuguese stayed onside before prodding home a Kostas Tsimikas cross.

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Speaking in the post-match fallout, Steve Cooper voiced his discontent at two critical incidents in the game – Jota’s goal and the non-awarding of a Forest penalty. Certain angles during the replay of Jota’s goal appeared to Show Jota in an offside position to the naked eye.

Cooper said: “I think the game was decided on a defining two minutes – we had a good chance that we didn’t take and they created one and did.

“It’s the first time we’ve experienced it (VAR) here and you have to trust the process of what it is.

“I haven’t seen them back, but I think they would have been interesting had they been at the other end.”

Forest were convinced they had cause for a late penalty when Alisson Becker appeared to foul Ryan Yates. As Yates took the ball around Alisson, the goalkeeper rooted his outstretched