Red card was harsh says Hyypia

Gerrard was sent off after picking up two yellow cards in the space of a minute. Sami Hyypia believes the decision to book Gerrard for kicking the ball away was a harsh one by the referee however.

"I don't know if the referee needed to give the first one against Stevie. The second one I don't think you can argue that it was a yellow card but when he gave the first one so easily, maybe he could have let him off the second one," said Hyypia.
 
"Stevie is a big leader of our team and he takes a lot of responsibility so it was up to the ones left on the pitch to take more responsibility. We did that.
 
"We needed to work hard and we did and at the end we were very happy. Defensively, I really don't remember many chances coming along for them and it wasn't their best day. We closed them down and got a lot of second balls."