Sadio Mane: Liverpool lose appeal against length of ban for red card
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Liverpool have lost their appeal over the length of Sadio Mane's three-match ban after he was sent off in Saturday's 5-0 defeat at Manchester City.
Mane was dismissed in the 37th minute after catching City goalkeeper Ederson in the face with a high foot.
He will now miss Premier League matches against Burnley and Leicester, as well as a trip to the latter in the EFL Cup.
The excessive punishment claim was rejected following an independent regulatory commission hearing.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said on Saturday that neither he nor City counterpart Pep Guardiola thought Mane should have been sent off.
Match of the Day pundits Alan Shearer, Gary Lineker and Ian Wright all said they would have gone for the ball, while Chris Sutton told Match of the Day 2 that Mane's red card should be rescinded.
However, Shearer said it was still a red card under the current rules. Former England internationals Jamie Carragher and Phil Neville were also among those to say referee Jon Moss was right to dismiss Mane.
Ederson trained on Tuesday as City prepare for their opening Champions League group game against Feyenoord on Wednesday.
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Down vote for not a red card
You still have to take the blame for the accident, regardless of how sorry they genuinely are.
How refreshing
Football has laws
And front page it states "...In the opinion of the referee..."
It does not say in the opinion of Gary Lineker using slo-mo replays from 15 different angles.
The ref on the day deemed it dangerous. End of discussion
He was reckless and deserved the red card and the ban.
Although he has been our best player this year, the 3 games are all winnable without him.
They also booed him as he was carried off.
It's never their fault.
He got sent of for kicking another player in the head (unintentional or not).
There is hardly a massive miscarriage of justice here.
I don't think I've ever seen such whingeing and whining and crying over a fairly obvious sending off.
Are Liverpool fan's not embarrassed by the whole thing.
Its a bit pathetic.