Longstaff joins Dubravka in contradicting Eddie Howe’s strange Liverpool claim

Eddie Howe cut a slightly frustrated figure with his post-match comments for Newcastle’s 4-2 defeat at Anfield.

The ex-Bournemouth coach felt aggrieved at some of the decisions that went against his side, including the alleged failure to award Sean Longstaff a penalty.

Neil Mellor analysed the incident on LFCTV, however, and noted that the Magpies star in question interestingly didn’t opt to appeal for a spot-kick.

“Was it a penalty? Well here we go, Newcastle wanted a penalty, Eddie Howe was saying it’s a penalty,” the former Red spoke on LFCTV’s Review Show.

“This is the only angle we can show you, I’m not sure if that’s handball, really difficult to see but it looks like it’s going to be close to a handball. We can’t give you a better angle. It might have been a handball in the build-up.

“Endo’s challenging Longstaff here. We’ll move it on. There is contact but the contact is Longstaff going down and leaving his trailing foot and there’s a little contact from Endo.

“For me, I think that would have been a harsh decision for the penalty – but like we said [Longstaff] didn’t appeal.

“If someone’s fouled me, I’m appealing for a penalty, without a doubt. So that tells it’s own story that the player was saying: probably not enough in it for a penalty.”