Steven Gerrard doesn’t hold back in verdict on Alexander Isak’s penalty shout vs Arsenal, ’embarrassment’
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Neither Madley, nor VAR assistant Stuart Attwell saw anything wrong with the Arsenal defender’s attempt to restrict Isak’s movement.Virgil van Dijk was furious at full-time, and Monday has brought a string of pundits agreeing with the Liverpool captain that Isak deserved a penalty. Gerrard says Liverpool should have had a penalty Some Arsenal fans have been adamant that although Liverpool should have had a penalty, they should have already been down to 10 men.
From where I was sitting it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t sitting there thinking to myself ‘that’s a pen, a definite pen,’ but the crowd reaction, you’re going off it wondering if there’s something there,” Gerrard said on the Overlap Daily when asked for his view of the shirt pull inside the ground.“The speed of the cross and how it happened and the reaction, you can understand how a referee could possibly miss that or think there’s not much in that, but for someone to sit in, I don’t know what they sit in at the moment, with all these screens. How you miss that in that VAR seat is an absolute embarrassment.” "An absolute embarrassment!" 😱Steven Gerrard didn’t hold back on the decision not to award Liverpool a penalty.Watch the latest Overlap Daily episode at 4pm on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 🙌⚽️ pic.twitter.com/1h2F1jqjY1— Overlap Daily (@ThatsFootballTV) November 2, 2026 View X READ MORE: Liverpool fans should be doubly upset with the referee vs Arsenal after seeing Mo Salah incident from 2019 “There’s no excuse for it is there really.
It’s really poor from Stuart Attwell.” Told of Andoni Iraola’s full-time comments that Isak should have gone down to ensure Madley had a decision to make, Gerrard concluded that it should not be on the player to make the officials do their jobs correctly. In this day and age with the amount of cameras and technology we’ve got, you shouldn’t have to make the most of anything, especially if someone’s sitting there watching it.