Premier League: Mario Balotelli angers Liverpool manager

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October 23rd, 2014
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Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli has triggered the anger of manager Brendan Rodgers after swapping shirts with Real Madrid's Pepe at half-time in the 3-0 Champions League defeat at Anfield on Wednesday. Balotelli made the gesture despite what had went on in the first half, as Liverpool were trailing by three goals. The striker was substituted at half time.

"It is not something I stand for," Rodgers said. "If you want to do that, do it at the end of the game. It is something I will deal with." Rodgers, who was equally angry when defender Mamadou Sakho did the same thing with Samuel Eto'o at Chelsea last season, added: "We had an incident last year with a player and that was something we dealt with internally. It's something that doesn't happen here and shouldn't happen here."

Balotelli had a disappointing performance, adding to the poor showing in the 3-2 win against QPR in the Premier League last weekend. The Italian striker was replaced by Adam Lallana at half-time and Rodgers said: "It was purely tactical - I felt we needed a bit more movement centrally to occupy their centre-halves a bit more and I thought Raheem Sterling would do that. Adam Lallana came on and was tireless in his work rate. That is the minimum here at Liverpool - you need to press, you need to work. Young Adam came on and did that very well."

Liverpool play Hull in the Premier League on Saturday and Mario Balotelli is 21/20 at Bet365 to score a goal in that match.

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