Liverpool left-back Andrew Robertson has defended club talisman Mohamed Salah amidst diving accusations against the Egyptian.

Newcastle United manager Rafa Benitez claimed that Salah simulated the dive that gave Liverpool a penalty. Since then, many have accused Salah of diving.

However, Robertson has defended his teammate, stating that he is not that kind of a footballer.

Robertson said, “He’s not that type of player. Every time it happens then we go back and everyone looks at the video and you go, ‘well, it’s not a dive’ so how many times is it going to happen?

I’m not sure if the Brighton players did say it was a dive or not and I’ll need to see it back but I was at the edge of the box and for me it was a stone-waller. If people are starting to say Mo has gone down easily it’s not fair because the one against Arsenal, especially, he got clipped three times on his way down and they still appealed it so it’s a bit of desperation.

I’ve not seen this Brighton one back but it’s a no-brainer really for the referee.”

The Reds registered their first win of 2019 by defeating Brighton 1-0 and go 7 points clear of Manchester City at the top of the table.

Robertson said that the two wins against Brighton this season were very important. The Scot said, “The two Brighton games have been massive for us because we have not been at our best. When we played them at home we weren’t at our best and they probably had a few more chances and we won 1-0. And then on Saturday we did the exact same.

It’s that winning mentality. Whoever wins the league will look back on some games and go ‘do you know what, we probably weren’t at our best there, and that was probably one that helped us turn one point into three or zero into one’. So there will be games over the season and whoever does that will probably have three or four games to look back on and if we manage to do it, I’m sure we’ll look back on this game as one of them.”

Liverpool next host Crystal Palace on Saturday.

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