Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has rejected the idea Liverpool's Premier League match with Tottenham Hotspur should be replayed as he called for the huge mistake made to be "accepted".
The Reds were on the receiving end of a bizarre decision during Saturday's defeat in the capital, seeing Luis Diaz's first-half goal ruled out for offside. A VAR check for this finish took place, resulting in the goal not standing due to major miscommunication among the match officials.
Jurgen Klopp yesterday called for the game to be repeated, in the interests of fairness and sporting integrity, though not everyone has agreed with this view of the former Borussia Dortmund coach.
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Of the view Liverpool simply have to move on from this injustice, no matter how tough it may be to accept what occurred in north London, Emery said: "Before when we didn’t have VAR, there were a lot of mistakes – more than now.
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Nike Get it here"Now I can accept some mistakes in VAR. They are only a few… small mistakes. Of course for Liverpool it was a big mistake in the last match against Tottenham but we have to accept because before, without VAR, there were more and more and
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