Luis Diaz's goal for Liverpool at Tottenham was mistakenly disallowed; VAR failed to overturn an incorrect offside call after believing the on-field decision had been to award the goal; PGMOL released the audio from the decision made by VAR officials Darren England and Dan Cook
Wednesday 4 October 2023 14:46, UK
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Jurgen Klopp has called for Liverpool's match against Tottenham to be replayed after the VAR failed to award Luis Diaz's goal which was ruled out for offside.
Klopp said: «It's really important that as big as football is and important as football is we deal with it in a proper way.
»All the people involved, the on-field referee, linesman, fourth official and especially in this case VAR, didn't do that on purpose. It was an obvious mistake and I think there would have been solutions for it afterwards.
«Some people probably don't want me to say, but not as the manager of Liverpool so much, more as a football person, the only outcome should be a replay. That's how it is. It probably will not happen.»
Diaz was flagged offside after scoring but replays showed he was actually onside although Darren England, the VAR, mistakenly believed the on-field decision had been to award the goal, leading him to tell Simon Hooper, the referee, that the check was complete.
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After England and the assistant VAR Dan Cook were alerted to their mistake by the replay operator when the goal wasn't awarded, they repeatedly said they could not intervene as the game had restarted.
Klopp added: «The argument against [a replay] will probably be if we open that gate then everybody will ask for it. The situation is so
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