Former referee Mike Dean has admitted that referee Paul Tierney made an error at the weekend.

Tireney paused the Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool game near the end for a head injury to Reds defender Ibrahima Konate.

However, when the game resumed, Liverpool were given the ball, when Forest had been in possession before the stoppage.

Dean told Sky Sports: “Obviously Nottingham Forest are upset, I would have been upset if I was involved with Nottingham Forest as well, but unfortunately for the referee he's made a monumental error. I think he'll know this morning that he's made a mistake and hopefully he can rectify that in the future.'

“Unfortunately for Paul it is a mistake and it's a bad one as well, it obviously leads to a goal eventually.

“The law states that whoever has the ball when the play does stop, the ball goes back to them. Hudson-Odoi clearly had the ball and the ball and the ball should have been dropped to Nottingham Forest on the wing.

“I know they went and scored Liverpool, it wasn't directly from the drop ball, it's close enough two minutes afterwards so it's a big timescale in between."