Given Suarez's villainous reputation, he could arguably have redeemed himself by admitting to his obvious infraction, but Rodgers can see no reason why he should have done so.
"It's not his job to do that," said Rodgers, who was forced to field a barrage of questions regarding the incident and Suarez after the game.
"The ball hit him, and it is the job of the referee to determine whether it was deliberate or not.
"They clearly knew it had hit his hand because within a split second the fourth official had said it had hit his hand, so he's obviously had dialogue with Andre, and he clearly felt it wasn't deliberate.
"If it was someone else we wouldn't be discussing it to this detail, but sometimes these sorts of things will follow players.
"I only like to talk about his talent and nothing what happened in this game, the ball hitting him on the hand, is his fault.
"If it was deemed deliberate then the referee would have disallowed the goal, but he didn't, so the goal counts.
"We missed many more chances to put the game to bed, so we got a bit of luck there. It's something we'll take and move on."
Marriott, who had a clear view of the handball given his save in the build up, described Suarez's goal as "a sickener".
"You saw everyone's reaction," said Marriott.
"Their players didn't celebrate, and the manner in which he kicked the ball into the net afterwards suggested he thought it was going to be disallowed, but the officials missed it.
"It happens. It's football, I don't think you can call him a cheat. I know a lot of people have done in the past.
"But every man, from a Sunday League football team to the Premier League, is going to do that and if it gives you an advantage and you can get away with it, then unfortunately that's football."
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