Alisson Becker Fined £8,000 for Misconduct After Nottingham Forest Draw

Alisson Becker has accepted an FA charge for misconduct and been hit with an £8,000 fine after his angry reaction to Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest last month.

The Liverpool goalkeeper lost his composure at the City Ground after being penalised for a late challenge on former team-mate Neco Williams, a decision that allowed Morgan Gibbs-White to put Forest 2-1 up from the spot.

Victor Munoz’s late equaliser salvaged a point for Andoni Iraola’s side, but the damage to Alisson’s mood had already been done. As he left the pitch at full-time, the Brazilian was seen kicking the fourth official’s electronic board in frustration. That same board had already drawn Liverpool’s ire after malfunctioning and delaying three substitutions in the moments leading up to the penalty incident.

The FA has now confirmed the punishment.

“Liverpool’s Alisson Becker has been fined £8,000 for misconduct at the Premier League fixture against Nottingham Forest on 29 August," read an official statement. "It was alleged that the goalkeeper acted in an improper manner around the tunnel area after the final whistle. Alisson Becker has subsequently accepted the charge against him and received the standard penalty.”

The sting of the fine has been sharpened by what followed this week. The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel ruled that the penalty award itself was wrong.

Of the five-person panel, three members felt Alisson’s challenge on Williams did not merit a spot-kick. Their view was clear: the contact came from the goalkeeper’s momentum as he tried to make a save, not from reckless or excessive force.

“The contact from Alisson was inevitable as a consequence of his momentum in attempting to save the ball,” the KMI Panel said. “The contact made was not reckless and below the threshold for a penalty.”

Yet the same panel backed the VAR process on the day. Referee Sam Barrott was not sent to the monitor by VAR Michael Oliver, and on that point the KMI group was unanimous. The incident, they decided, did not reach the “clear and obvious” threshold required for intervention.

“However, the non-intervention by the VAR was unanimously supported on the basis that it was not a clear and obvious error,” the panel added.

So Alisson walks away with a fine, a blemish on his record, and the knowledge that an independent panel believes the penalty he raged against should never have been given in the first place.