Micah Richards and Ashley Williams agreed that Diogo Jota dived to try and win a penalty during Liverpool's 2-1 victory over Wolves on Sunday.

The match referee initially pointed to the spot after Jota went down in the Wolves penalty area following a collision with center-back Emmanuel Agbadou, but the decision was reviewed by the video assistant referee and subsequently overturned.

A Premier League statement on the decision said: "VAR checked the referee’s call of penalty to Liverpool for a challenge by Agbadou on Jota and deemed any contact was not initiated by Agbadou, therefore recommended an on-field review.

Replays showed that Jota manufactured the contact in a bid to win a penalty, and Richards and Williams praised the officials on Match of the Day 2 for getting to the right decision in the end.

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Richards said: "They should get some praise because I think this...

It's not a penalty and he should have been getting a yellow card for that."

Williams added: "His touch has taken it a little bit away from him and he knows that and he can't shoot and he thinks the contact is coming but it never actually comes and just is a dive."



Jota went down in the box

Meanwhile, former Premier League referee Keith Hackett questioned why Jota avoided a booking for the incident

When Jota went to ground and referee hooper awarded a free kick, that was rightly overturned after a VAR intervention