Unthinkable fiasco: Liverpool’s own goal didn’t count because VAR didn’t know the referee had disallowed it

Liverpool held a hard-fought point in their hands and played against Tottenham with 10 men from the 26th minute and with 9 men from the 69th minute, but in the sixth minute of stoppage time they lost 2-1 due to Matip’s own goal.

The Reds have legitimate complaints with the referee as Luis Diaz’s goal was disallowed when the score was 0-0. The Colombian striker sent the ball into the net and received the ball from an obvious position… offside, with the VAR, however, taking the referee’s signal and confirming the offside.

The general refereeing decisions sparked an outburst from Jurgen Klopp, who claimed after the game he had never seen anything like it in his career and blasted both the disallowed goal and the sending offs of Curtis Jones and Diogo Zota.

In fact, England’s referee committee issued a statement after the end of the game apologizing and attributing the error in Dias’ goal to a misunderstanding on the part of the VAR.

Specifically, reports in England say VAR, Darren England He thought the goal counted and for this reason, since it was obvious that Dias was not in an offside position, he informed that the test is completed and the game can continue. Essentially, he laid out the lines, realized it was a clear target, and said “check complete.”

But from the moment the Tottenham players took the free kick from the position that Dias had called offside, the VAR was no longer able to intervene and reverse its decision. Therefore, the decision to disallow the goal is attributed to human error.