Liverpool have been charged by the FA following an incident in the first half of their 4-1 Premier League defeat to Manchester City last Saturday. Despite taking the lead through Mohamed Salah, the Reds were picked apart by Arsenal's title rivals who were able to briefly close the gap at the top to five points only for the Gunners to re-open their eight-point lead after beating Leeds later in the day by the same score line.
City equalised through Julian Alvarez before second half strikes from Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Jack Grealish handed Liverpool their heaviest league defeat of the season. Despite five goals being scored, one of the biggest talking points in the game was surrounding City midfielder Rodri who was lucky to avoid receiving a second yellow card after stopping a Liverpool counter-attack.
Having been booked just moments before that foul, the Liverpool players pleaded with referee Simon Hooper to dismiss the Spaniard. However, he chose to only serve him with a warning but the protests from the visitors was deemed to be excessive and thus they have been charged for surrounding a match official by the FA.
