He does not play and is chosen in the ideal eleven of the day

The central of the Liverpool Joel Matip He has lived one of the most surreal moments of his career. The German footballer of Cameroonian origin did not play against Tottenham last Wednesday, December 16, but was still chosen in the ideal eleven of the day produced weekly by Garth Crooks in the BBC.

Crooks, former footballer for Stoke City, Tottenham and Manchester United, among others, He even wrote a sentence in which he analyzed Matip’s game against Tottenham. “He survived a moment or two of fear”said Crooks, who was soon ridiculed by Liverpool supporters on social media. Matip did play the full game Liverpool won 7-0 against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

“You think you’ve seen it all in 2020, but then Garth Crooks describes the scary moments that Joel Matip had during a game where he didn’t play”wrote one fan. As “embarrassing” one fan called it, while another said that “I was probably watching the game against Spurs last year.”

It is not the first time that Crooks has made the news for an error of this caliber. In 2012 he assured that James Morrison, of West Bromwich Albion, deserved to be called up by the then English coach, Roy Hodgson. The problem was that Morrison had been playing for the Scotland national team for four years.