Everton's Anthony Gordon Is Building ‘Reputation’ For Diving, Says Former Liverpool Midfielder Danny Murphy

“It is a penalty for me,” said Lampard. “You don’t get them here. If that was Mo Salah at the other end he gets a penalty. I’m not trying to create conflict; it’s just the reality of football. I have played in teams in the top half of the league – you get them.

"That was a penalty for sure. It’s a clear foul.”

"Anthony Gordon has been a revelation since Frank Lampard came in," he told Martin Tyler. "He just jumps over Naby Keita's outstretched leg.

"There's been a tendency of this from Anthony Gordon, in the few games we've seen him. He's frustrated, he can't believe it... but that's crept into his game. He's somebody we've got to keep an eye on now.

"I don't think it was a penalty, the referee was in a great position."

Carragher's former Liverpool teammate Danny Murphy has since agreed with those comments during a recent appearance on talkSPORT, where he lauded Gordon's ability but again, criticised his 'diving'.

“He’s a great player by the way. I really like him, Anthony Gordon, he’s a super talent, but I’ve watched Everton so much this season and he does dive a lot – and this is within the same game.

“Because he’s got that lovely way about him, he’s got great balance, he can go both ways and he’s got a low centre of gravity, he does get fouled a lot.

“We’ve talked about this with Jack Grealish and they do go over too easily, but the argument is why shouldn’t they? Because if they don’t, you don’t get the penalties or the free-kicks. You can’t win.

“But, would he have got that penalty if he hadn’t have gone down in the first-half? Maybe yes.

“The fact is, it was a pen,” Murphy added. “Again we talk about referees being able to take each incident in isolation, but that’s just not the way the world works.”

Ally McCoist followed Murphy by saying it was a "stonewall" penalty.

“After the game, maybe he was influenced by Gordon diving in the first half, which he did do, but I also think there was contact there by the way.

“I thought the penalty decision was shocking, stonewall penalty. But I don’t think he did himself any favours by diving.”