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Iker Casillas gets salty on social media after Porto’s defeat to Liverpool

Published 08:07 10 Apr 2019 BST

Darragh Murphy
Iker Casillas gets salty on social media after Porto’s defeat to Liverpool

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Iker Casillas has been accused of showing a lack of class after Porto fell to a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool on Tuesday night.

The Champions League quarter-final first leg at Anfield was not short of talking points as VAR again took centre-stage. Some felt that Porto ought to have been awarded a penalty when a defensive mix-up between Alisson Becker and Trent Alexander-Arnold saw him accidentally handle the ball in the box while most believe Mohamed Salah was lucky to stay on the pitch for an awfully-timed late challenge on Danilo Pereira. With everything still to play for in the return leg, Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas appeared to take a veiled dig at the refereeing decisions that went against his side in Liverpool. https://twitter.com/IkerCasillas/status/1115744925881176065 Casillas tweeted out photographs of the two incidents involving Alexander-Arnold and Salah before assuring supporters that the team would "fight to make it through to the semi-finals" when Porto host the Reds at the Estádio do Dragão next week. Liverpool fans on social media didn't take kindly to Casillas' complaints, however, and accused him of being a bad loser. "It was a good game, a good game, a controlled game in a lot of moments. We deserved the win, 100 per cent, we scored two wonderful goals and we were - in a lot of situations - really dangerous, on the right side especially with Mo, Hendo and Trent, the crosses and the passes. Overall, a really good performance," Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said of the victory. "They had a bit too many set-pieces because they are really good in that and you don’t want to give them away, but that’s how it is - they go for it as well and we defended them well. The problem was a little bit the second half, we gave one or two counter-attacks away and then we had to control it a bit more. We lost the direction in the play a bit, we didn’t play that clear anymore. We were still around in the box and all that stuff, that was good, but then for defending the counter-attacks we had to work really hard and it costs you then a little bit, you lose a bit of rhythm. That’s what happened. "I would have loved it if Sadio’s goal would have counted because it was a brilliant situation, a brilliant situation. All good, 2-0, the game is still on, we have to go there, we have to fight. Porto will try everything to strike back – and that will be a really tough game again, but that’s how it should be in the quarter-finals. We will be ready."

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