LIVERPOOL -- Mario Balotelli will miss Sunday's Premier League match against Arsenal after Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said there would be no appeal against the striker's one-match ban.

Balotelli, 24, was suspended for one game, fined 25,000 pounds and told to attend an education course by the Football Association after he posted an image on Instagram that appeared to contain anti-Semitic and racist references.

The Italy international had shared a picture of the Nintendo character Super Mario, with a headline that read "Don't be racist," and text that added: "Be like Mario, he's an Italian plumber, created by Japanese people, who speaks English and looks like a Mexican. He jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew."