suggests 22-year-old Liverpool player could actually have been sent off last night

Curtis Jones, a midfielder for Liverpool, avoided a red card Wednesday night against Leicester City by sheer chance.

Jones led the team to victory in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night while playing the unfamiliar position of right-back.

Overall, the 22-year-old performed admirably in his new position, drifting infield whenever the opportunity presented itself. Frank LeBeouf, an ESPN analyst, believes that Jones’ night may have been cut short.

The former France international remarked, “You talked about the red card maybe for Chelsea, but you didn’t talk about the elbow from Jones in the first half.”

“Maybe could have been shown and the ref would have decided differently and maybe the outcome would have changed.”

Despite his gripe about a potential sending off though, LeBeouf did concede that Liverpool deserved to win on the night.

“It was an interesting game. I liked the rhythm of the game, the pace of the game,” said the pundit. “Leicester aren’t that far from the Premier League. We could see they still have that power and that strength, but Liverpool came back bigger, stronger. It was justified that they scored three goals and they won.”

Jones escapes Leicester punishment

Had Liverpool gone down to 10-men in the first half, while 1-0 down, then it certainly could have changed the result.

However, you get the feeling that it wouldn’t have knocked the Reds out of their stride too much.

In truth Leicester were incredibly lucky themselves. Lucky that they weren’t already two or three goals behind by the time half-time rolled around.

The Reds absolutely pummelled them from pretty much the second they went behind, to the referee blowing for full-time.

Of course, with Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez both missing, a Jones red card would have thrown up the question of who slotted in at right-back.

But with Stefan Bajcetic coming off the bench later in the game and Wataru Endo perhaps an option too, Liverpool would have managed.

Without VAR, there was never going to be enough in Jones’ challenge on Kasey McAteer to be a red card anyway. Leicester may feel harshly done by, but last night’s result was never really in doubt.