There were two big penalty decisions for referee Jon Moss at Anfield on Sunday. He got one right and the other wrong.

On the first one, Harry Kane was clearly in an offside position and should have been flagged by the referee's assistant, Edward Smart. Moss talked to Smart who told him he was not sure so the referee gave the penalty.

If Dejan Lovren, the Liverpool defender, had been deliberately trying to clear the ball, he would have been deemed to have been playing Kane onside. In my view, however, Lovren did not play the ball deliberately – if he had been, the ball would have been cleared upfield – so it should have been immediately ruled offside.

Moss was left in the mire by his assistant, who should have put up his flag for offside. The whole procedure looked untidy but Moss was fortunate that Kane's spot-kick was saved.

That did not conceal the fact that there was generally poor teamwork between Moss and his two assistants, both of whom were frankly poor and below the standard expected at Premier League level.

Moss also had to decide whether Loris Karius, the Liverpool goalkeeper, should have been sent off for bringing down Kane. He decided, correctly, that Karius was attempting to play the ball as he fouled Kane so rightly did not show him a red card.