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Benitez calls for calm over labelling Liverpool's Ngog a 'diver'

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 15:06

David Ngog has been under-fire ever since he won Liverpool a contentious penalty in the recent 2-2 draw with Birmingham.

However, Reds boss Rafa Benitez has defended the Frenchman, insisting the 20-year-old is an honest player and that it would be wrong to brand him a cheat forever.

"I haven't seen Ngog having any problems in any training session, in any game, diving," said Benitez. "He is a very honest player, a young player with quality and a good mentality. I could name 20 players who have these problems but not Ngog.

"I think it will be a massive mistake [if he is labelled a diver now]. There are bad tackles every week which are more dangerous for the integrity of the players than this situation. It is a situation you can see in a lot of games.

Benitez added: "Ngog knows it was a bad situation. "But he was running and trying to score and he could see a player going to the ground, he needed to jump.

"To try that tackle is a foul with the rules. After we can see the replays and talk about video technology but at that moment everyone thought it was a penalty.

"After watching the replay I could see a player going to ground, trying to tackle one of our players and our player jumping, diving, but at the time it was a penalty."

 
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Comments (11)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/22/2009 - 08:56.

your full of bias as usual benitez
you said after the game it was a dive now you want to cheat just like ngog and ignore it was a dive.
he wasn't jumping over a tackle as if he was he would have attempted to put one foot infront of the other.
he made no attempt only a swimming pool dive as soon as he saw the leg coming in
NGOG IS A CHEAT plain and simple and you encourage it just like wenger and platini
SO YOU ARE A CHEAT TOO

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 22:13.

and for liverpool fan ..... Please dont take his side when you know he was wrong and he is just trying to safe his job?? what we know fag is wed rather not have a player with a broken leg!!!terrible tackle deserved a red and a penalty, he had to move outta the way, penalties should only be given when a leg is broken??????

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 22:01.

if he didnt move out the way he would have been carried off following a deliberate bad tackle....

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