You couldn’t make it up.
If it still hurts for Liverpool fans to relive Stevie Gerrard’s infamous slip in their crucial title run-in game with Chelsea back in 2014, they may want to look away now.
It seems incoming defender Joel Matip has previous of just such an incident. The circumstances may have very different but the action plays out with eery replication.
The Schalke man experienced his misfortune in 2015 against Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the similarities to Stevie G’s fluff are just…well, take a look for yourself…
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