To my mind a dive is a clear fall when there’s no contact or almost as bad a Kane/Vardy style ‘inviting’ of contact. Sadio got a kick, not a huge one but by going to ground he gave the ref a decision to make. That’s not a dive.
I do think that had he stayed on his feet we might not have got it, Rodgers is probably right that VAR wouldn’t have overturned a decision not to give it but then we, and probably those same pundits would be having a conversation that Mane should have been cuter and gone to ground. Absolutely hypocrisy for them to say otherwise.