Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was the only person who thought Steven Gerrard should not start against Manchester United , says Paul Scholes . Gerrard was on the substitutes ' bench until half-time at Anfield on Sunday , and was sent off after just 38 seconds of coming on for stamping on Ander Herrera . Scholes feels it could have been a different game had Gerrard started , and that being a substitute only added to his frustration leading up to his red card . Here is the stamp from Steven Gerrard on Ander Herrera after both players had competed for the ball . Gerrard clearly puts all his downwards force into Herrera 's right leg after the pair collided . Gerrard is shown a red card by referee Martin Atkinson on a frustrating afternoon for the club captain . Paul Scholes feels Gerrard should have started and that being a substitute only added to his frustration . 'Should he have started the game ? Of course he should , ' Scholes wrote in his column for the Independent . 'There was only one person who can have thought that Gerrard was not right to start against Manchester United at Anfield in a must-win game for Liverpool , and that was Brendan Rodgers . 'United were brilliant in the first half , but if they had been up against Gerrard then it might have been different . 'He had the frustration of not playing in the game , and then he had to watch a first half in which none of his team-mates even made a tackle . It is not nice to stand on the sideline and see your own team getting destroyed at home to a big rival . ' I can see what he was trying to do when he came on : put a few tackles in and get the crowd going . But even when you can feel the emotions rising in you , the most important thing is control . I got sent off a few times in my life but I never lost my head . I mistimed tackles and I made mistakes . ' Scholes ( left ) pictured with Manchester United assistant manager Ryan Giggs ( right ) at Old Trafford . Scholes has been sent off in big games but says the 'most important thing is control ' on a pitch .
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