Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has been fined £8,000 for misconduct after kicking the fourth official's board following his side's 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest last month.
The Brazilian was left furious after conceding a penalty to Oliver Glasner's Forest side at Anfield, with former Liverpool full back Neco Williams hauled down in the area. Morgan Gibbs-White converted the spot kick before Victor Munoz equalised to help Forest avoid defeat.
Still angry at full time, Alisson was seen kicking the fourth official's board as he made his way towards the tunnel. He was charged by the Football Association on Thursday over the outburst.
The FA's charge
A statement from the FA read: "Liverpool's Alisson Becker has been fined £8,000 for misconduct at the Premier League fixture against Nottingham Forest on 29 August. It was alleged that the goalkeeper acted in an improper manner around the tunnel area after the final whistle."
The FA added that "Alisson Becker has subsequently accepted the charge against him and received the standard penalty."
Alisson, who has been Liverpool's first-choice goalkeeper since joining from Roma in 2018 and is a regular for the Brazil national team, has rarely been in trouble with match officials during his time in England.
Panel rules penalty should not have stood
The sanction follows a ruling from the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel, a body set up to review contentious refereeing decisions after matches, which found that the penalty should not have been awarded in the first place.
The panel voted 3:2 that referee Sam Barrott should not have given the penalty. It also backed, 5:0, the decision by VAR Michael Oliver not to advise Barrott to review the incident on the pitchside monitor, ruling that it did not reach the threshold for a video intervention.
"The contact from Alisson was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball," the panel said. "The contact made was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty."
"However, the non intervention by the VAR was unanimously supported on the basis that it was not a clear and obvious error," the panel added.
