Koren unhappy with Rooney over penalty

Sun, 06 Sep 13:16:00 2009

Slovenia skipper Robert Koren has accused Wayne Rooney of "going down a bit too easy" to earn a penalty during England's 2-1 win at Wembley in a friendly international.

The Manchester United star was involved in a challenge with Bostjan Cesar who suffered an ankle injury during the incident and had to be substituted, and referee Jonas Eriksson pointed to the spot before Frank Lampard made no mistake to put England on their way to victory.

Koren told Press Association Sport: "We need to see the replay but we have been talking in the dressing room and we think it was not a penalty. I think Rooney went down a bit too easy and let's see if someone will say something against him."

Slovenian keeper Samir Handanovic felt that Rooney should even have been yellow-carded for his part in the incident.

He said: "It was no penalty. Both players were fighting for the ball. In the end Rooney literally fell into Cesar and I think it was a clear foul against our player.

"Maybe Rooney should have been yellow-carded."

Rooney declined to stop and comment when the criticism of him by the Slovenian players was put to him after the game.

Koren also believes that Eriksson was kindly disposed towards England with some of his decisions during the game.

He said: "My personal opinion is the referee was under a little bit of pressure because of the crowd and the England team. That penalty was a little bit too easy, I think.

"When the referee is in charge between these two teams, the English team is a big team and the referee gave them a bit more credit (favour) I think."

 

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  1. Rooney represents the Hyprocritism of this country­ always blamming the Foreigners when Mr Rooney and Frank­ Lamps and Gerrrard are the biggers divers and penalties­ claimers in the FA league??? just check the stats and­ you will see its like the blood benefit cheaters and­ benefits users they are mostly English and they blame­ the bloody foreigners, naturally English behaviour!!­ Drogba and Ronaldo paneleioro are the biggest Divers­ ever and Klisman was a lady diver...

    From Paulo, on Sun 6 Sep 12:56PM
  2. i wonder what uefa/fifa have to say about this, oh wait­ it was only a friendly and oh wait.... it was only­ wayne rooney... its ok
    (arsenal fan)

    From Danny, on Sun 6 Sep 12:35PM
  3. Oh dear...Mr. Rooney seemed to have gone back on a word­ he said about diving - his contempt for players doing ­ it was clear and straight, but his dodgy penalty told ­ us he's just as hypocritical as Mr. Gerrard.

    From Arthur, on Sun 6 Sep 11:32AM
  4. well well well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hello Mr­ Rooney, i thought u were against diving but in actual­ fact after watchin the replay, rooney was d one fouling­ Cesar. after blaming eduardo last week, i cannt believe­ he will do the same or even worse. Shame on u Rooney

    From Enoch, on Sun 6 Sep 10:45AM
  5. I totally agree

    From seer, on Sun 6 Sep 10:36AM
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