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On United\u2019s second goal and if it was handball…<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, if it was a touch, which I think it is, because if you know a bit about a ball sport, you know that if a ball has a certain curve and the curve changes, there must have been contact \u2013 but it’s always light. Then we should have a debate in football, is that then enough to disallow a goal? But I think the rule is if there was a touch, it should have been disallowed. But I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone this season that if there is a VAR intervention, or if there is something that you could look at or could be left, could be right, then that decision goes against us. That has been the whole season. Every single time (it’s) the same. If I remember Paris Saint-Germain at home getting a penalty for a soft touch on (Alexis) Mac Allister, but of course the VAR interferes and says no, no, this is not a penalty. <\/p>\n One week later when I see Paris Saint-Germain playing against Bayern Munich, that same soft touch, the penalty stays. I saw last week my goalkeeper on the floor with an injury and the referee doesn’t stop the game. I see a player of United off the pitch today and the ref stops the game when we try to play on. That has been our whole season. But the second goal we did not concede because of the handball, we conceded it because we lost the ball in a stupid position and we lost a few big moments afterwards in duels. We have to first look at ourselves, let that be completely clear and obvious. But decisions have gone every single game against us, that’s also completely clear and obvious because when we played United in the first game of the season, I had one of my players with five stitches on the floor and the referee didn’t stop the game and we conceded.<\/p>\n This is a complete pattern over the whole season, but there’s also a pattern that we concede ridiculous goals when we are the better team and one or two (are) switching off and then we concede a goal. That we have more influence on, so I should focus much more on that than on these referee decisions that go against us. But it’s clear that the whole season is the same.<\/p>\n On whether Alexander Isak will miss the rest of the season and his other absent players…<\/strong><\/p>\n No, he isn’t. We’re expecting him to be back very soon. But you saw the second half, so there’s no excuse. I haven’t spoken about missing players (and) I’m not talking about it now. If you can play a second half as we did, there’s no necessity to have other players here. We were able, with this team, to have a chance of winning this game and we were quite close. But, as always, one moment of switching off immediately leads to us conceding a goal… so many times this season it was waiting for us to score one and then we conceded because we switched off for one or two seconds in a crucial moment.<\/p>\n On whether he is ‘concerned’ Liverpool haven’t secured Champions League qualification yet…<\/strong><\/p>\n I wouldn’t say concerned is the right word, but I’m completely aware of the fact that we need three points. That’s why I was so annoyed that we didn’t pick them up today. Although we didn’t deserve to get these points in the first half, that’s completely clear. But if you are 2-2 coming back after (being) 2-0 down, then you should at least go away here with a result, which we didn’t do. We knew before the game we had four chances to pick up three points to qualify for the Champions League. 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