Ivan Juric, manager of Southampton, feels Liverpool should have been given a penalty in the second half of their 3-1 loss at Anfield on Saturday. Will Smallbone gave the Saints an unexpected lead in stoppage time of the first half, but Darin Nunez quickly erased the lead. Mo Salah scored two penalty penalties in the second half to give Liverpool the victory, but Juric thought the first one was unfair. There didn't appear to be much in the area as Smallbone and Nunez collided, but referee Lewis Smith gave the penalty. Juric, the Southampton manager, is furious at Liverpool's penalty call. "They responded quite well," Juric said to BBC Sport. "We had some excellent first-half situations. The match was altered, in my opinion, by the [first] penalty, which was not a penalty. I'm happy with the way we performed today. "This can never be a punishment. Since it was 1-1 and somewhat altered the outcome, I apologize for what happened. Many of our yo...
Bayer Leverkusen, the German champions, have a couple of important games coming up, first traveling to Frankfurt for a difficult away game in the Bundesliga before facing Bayern Munich in the first of two Champions League last-16 matches on Wednesday.
In a press conference on Friday, Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso insisted that he has no plans to field a second-string side against Eintracht ahead of the midweek match at the Allianz Arena.
"We always play full-throttle. There isn't a game in which I don't believe so. We'll go into tomorrow's game with the best team," Alonso said, adding that the "best preparation" for the trip to Munich is "a good game."
"We want to win, play a good game with and without the ball with a lot of discipline and be very well organized," said the forward.
Xabi Alonso has a full squad available for Saturday's game, with the exception of Piero Hincapie, who is suspended, and the long-term injured Jeanuel Belocian and Martin Terrier.
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