Atletico Madrid will take a sense of injustice away from Anfield. Diego Simeone’s team do not usually need an excuse and the first half sending off of their Brazilian defender Felipe was frankly as bizarre as anything we have witnessed on the green acres of a football field for quite some time.
His trip on Sadio Mane ten minutes before half-time was a yellow card offence at best. Instead Dutch referee Danny Makkelie, after some delay and considerations, sent him off. A police inspector from Rotterdam, heaven knows what the Makkelie does when he sees a double parked car.