VAR 'thought Luis Diaz's goal had been awarded on the pitch'
The VAR team overseeing Tottenham Hotspur's 2-1 Premier League win over Liverpool on Saturday evening believed that Luis Diaz's wrongly disallowed goal had been awarded on the field, according to a report.
The Reds' 19-game unbeaten run in all tournaments and 17-game streak without defeat in the English top flight was broken in highly contentious circumstances in North London, where Son Heung-min and a Joel Matip own goal rendered Cody Gakpo's response inconsequential.
Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota also saw red for the nine-man visitors, who thought that they had taken the lead not long after the former was sent for an early bath after catching Yves Bissouma with his studs in a 50-50 challenge.
Diaz clinically finished across goal after being played through by Mohamed Salah, but the linesman's offside flag went up straight away, and play resumed with a Tottenham free kick once the VAR room had taken a quick glance at the footage.
However, stills from Salah's pass showed that Cristian Romero was in fact keeping Diaz onside, and the PGMOL admitted after the game that the Colombia international's strike should have stood, sparking more fury from the already-incandescent Liverpool fans.
The «significant human error» initially appeared similar to Ivan Toney's incorrectly awarded goal against Arsenal in February, where VAR official Lee Mason forgot to draw the lines that would have shown Christian Norgaard in an offside position.
Rather than forgetting to draw the lines, the Daily Mail claims that Darren England at Stockley Park noted that Diaz was onside, but he did not realise that the goal had been disallowed on the field.
As a result, England and his VAR assistant Dan Cook only needed a brief glance at the images before
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