Ally McCoist hits back at Gary Neville over 'unfair' comment in Liverpool's Carabao Cup final win vs Chelsea

Ally McCoist has slammed Gary Neville for his comments regarding Chelsea, following Liverpool's 1-0 win against Mauricio Pochettino's side in the Carabao Cup final.

Virgil Van Dijk ensured Jurgen Klopp got his farewell quadruple attempt up and running with a late header in the 118th minute.

The Dutch defender had a header controversially chalked off in normal time for an offside call involving Wataru Endo and Levi Colwill but then, with the 42nd attempt of the game, powered in another bullet just as the game seemed destined to head to penalties.

The fallout from the match has seen a huge amount of criticism head Chelsea's way due to the price tags of a lot of their starting XI compared to Liverpool's youngsters who ultimately triumphed.

Gary Neville was the first to fire shots at Chelsea during the commentary after Van Dijk's winner.

The former United defender said: "It's Klopp's kids against the blue billion-pound bottlejobs. For Chelsea, I've got no sympathy whatsoever."

The brutal piece of commentary instantly went viral, with hundreds of memes flooding social media, despite Chelsea having a younger average squad than Liverpool both at the start and end of the match.

Speaking on talkSPORT following the game, Ally McCoist took issue with Neville for his comments during the game.

"I think [calling Chelsea bottle jobs] is unfair. It's strong," he said.

"They could have won it. I think it's extremely strong and wrong to call them bottlejobs, but they do deserve criticism," The former Scottish international explained.

Gusto and Enzo after the match- Getty

"I mean the game could have gone either way, Liverpool's disallowed goal, Jackson's disallowed goal, which dear me, look how tight that was. And then you've got Van Dijk's header, the game was on a knife edge and it was a flick of the coin.

"So, I'm certainly not going to be as critical of Chelsea and Pochettino as some of the pundits are. But, what an opportunity it was for him to get his first piece of silverware."

Topics: Chelsea, Liverpool, Carabao Cup, Gary Neville, Virgil Van Dijk, Jurgen Klopp

Tom Jenkins

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