Sunday 29 April 2018 00:02, UK
Graeme Souness and Shay Given disagreed over whether Liverpool should have been awarded a late penalty against Stoke, while Jordan Henderson called it a "poor decision".
The home side appealed for a penalty when Georginio Wijnaldum's cross hit Erik Pieters' arm in the 87th minute, but Andre Marriner did not point to the spot and the game finished 0-0.
Liverpool captain Henderson said it was a "poor decision" and that the officials had cost Liverpool the three points.
Former Liverpool midfielder Souness said he thought it was a penalty, but did not agree with Henderson's assessment that it cost them the game.
"He [Pieters] goes to lift his left leg, so the brain is telling the left leg to try to block it, surely the brain could tell his left arm to get out of the way if it wanted to?" said Souness.
"I know it is close and it's a hard one to call but I think his arm must be a foot away from his body. Liverpool will be screaming because they had a penalty given against them for far less than that against Roma.
"But Liverpool cost Liverpool the points, you can't have 72 per cent of the ball and only have two shots on target. If you have that much of the ball you have to make the goalkeeper work. They were getting into the last third and there was nobody threatening to skip past someone and get shots off.
"Liverpool can only look at themselves. It wasn't that one penalty shout that cost Liverpool, you have to make the goalkeeper work far more than they did today."
Ex-Stoke goalkeeper Given disagreed with Souness' view of the penalty, saying: "There is no question that it hits his arm and the linesman is looking across it, but I think it's the right decision.
"I don't think he has moved his arm up. I don't think it's a stonewall penalty, his hand has to be somewhere and he hasn't stuck it out."
