Liverpool have decided to appeal Curtis Jones’ red card against Tottenham last Saturday.
Jones was dismissed for fouling Yves Bissouma in the 26th minute after a VAR intervention.
Referee Simon Hooper had initially shown Jones a yellow card for the challenge but changed his decision after being advised to go to the pitch-side monitor.
Liverpool feel the situation did not meet the threshold for excessive force as the 22-year-old made enough contact with the ball and was trying to control it by rolling over it, while there was no basis or intention for serious foul play.
After the defeat in north London, Jurgen Klopp said: “He had full power on the ball, rolls over the ball and then he hits the decisive part of the leg.
“When you see it in slow motion it looks horrendous but when you see it in real time it’s not even that close to being bad. It wasn’t even close to being on purpose.
“The game is in real time but we judge it in slow motion.”
Jones faces a three-game ban if the red card is not overturned. If the dismissal is upheld, he would sit out Liverpool’s Premier League fixtures against Brighton, Everton and Nottingham Forest.
