{"id":325773,"date":"2011-03-21T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/simon-mignolet-stupid-penalty-award-cost-sunderland-against-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:35:00","slug":"simon-mignolet-stupid-penalty-award-cost-sunderland-against-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/simon-mignolet-stupid-penalty-award-cost-sunderland-against-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Mignolet: Stupid penalty award cost Sunderland against Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunderland<\/a> goalkeeper Simon Mignolet<\/a> believes the \u201cstupid\u201d decision to award Liverpool<\/a> a penalty on Sunday changed the course of the game.<\/p>\n

The Reds, who won the match 2-0, were initially given a free-kick on the edge of the area following John Mensah’s challenge on Jay Spearing, before the referee’s assistant flagged for a penalty, which was converted by Dirk Kuyt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first 30 minutes, we started well, we put them under pressure and they had difficulties with us,\u201d Mignolet told reporters after the game. \u201cUnfortunately we get a silly goal after 30 minutes, a stupid penalty and everything ran down a little bit for us. They got better in the game, we had difficulties to create chances and at that point we lost the game actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the penalty itself, the Belgian admitted that saving a spot-kick comes down to luck and he reiterated that his side were doubly unlucky to have had the penalty awarded against them in the first place as the challenge was outside of the box.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to be lucky and choose the right side and unfortunately today I picked the wrong choice. But I don\u2019t think if you see how we played the first 30 minutes and then you concede a penalty then you can see how games change and that\u2019s a little bit unfortunate for us,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, if we scored in the first 30 minutes it was another game as well. We just have to try and get the next points as quick as possible because we\u2019re still hanging around at the 38 point mark and we want to get onto 40 points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the penalty we have two injuries and we have to reorganise and it\u2019s always difficult to get your shape again as a team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

If the first goal was dubious, the second was beyond doubt as Luis Suarez rifled past Mignolet from an acute angle, and the Sunderland ‘keeper conceded the strike caught him unaware.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect more a cross, obviously he\u2019s right footed and then he smashed it in from a small, very small angle. It\u2019s a good goal, sometimes as a goalkeeper you can be a little bit lucky and get a hand to it but it wasn\u2019t today,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think we lost the game before that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a goalkeeper you always have to learn from those things and I\u2019ll get the images again next week,\u201d continued Mignolet. \u201cI\u2019ll see it again and get my remarks on it and I\u2019ll learn from it and that\u2019s the most important thing as a young goalkeeper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mignolet had made a string of good saves up until conceding the second goal but he acknowledged that the result is more important than any individual performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a goalkeeper if you concede two goals at the end of the game you never can be happy. You live with the team, first thing and the most important thing is the result and your own performance isn\u2019t particularly important. It\u2019s more important to get the points back onto the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a stupid penalty, which was a doubt, everyone thought we could get more out of it the game especially with the first 30 minutes, we played well and put them under pressure and they had difficulties with us,\u201d continued the Belgian. \u201cIf we could do that in the whole game I don\u2019t think we\u2019d lose today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first moment that I saw it I thought it was outside the penalty area, obviously, the referee thought that as well but the linesman turned it around and made it a penalty. He was more away from the actual fault as the referee was so it\u2019s a strange decision but he\u2019ll take account for it.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he would like to see video technology introduced to help avoid controversial decisions, Mignolet said: \u201cEspecially as a goalkeeper, if you see at the World Cup \u2013 you know what happens so as a goalkeeper you always want those things video technology involved in the professional game and the game we are in right now.”<\/p>\n

Sunderland\u2019s poor run of form has seen them slip from a strong position in the table down to ninth in the league.<\/p>\n

When asked if his side\u2019s chances of qualifying for Europe were over, Mignolet said the Black Cats now need to focus on results.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell we don\u2019t have to talk about \u2018European hope\u2019, we just have to make sure that we, like I said last week at Arsenal as well, we just have to make sure every single week, week out we have to try and get three points on the board and we don\u2019t have to look towards the table,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we look towards the table right now we will see we\u2019re six points out of the bottom three so there\u2019s no point at looking at the table,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just have to make sure we try and get a result on the board every single week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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