Liverpool’s Luis Diaz was wrongly denied a objective by VAR for offside of their last-gasp 2-1 defeat to Tottenham within the Premier League on Saturday, PGMOL has admitted.
The Reds went all the way down to 10 males after 26 minutes when Curtis Jones’ yellow card was controversially upgraded to a crimson by VAR.
Regardless of their numerical drawback, Liverpool thought that they had gone forward simply after the half-hour mark on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, however the Colombian’s effort was rapidly dominated out for offside.
It appeared like an in depth name, however the recreation promptly resumed and Spurs took the lead by way of Son Heung-min simply a few minutes later.
Video assistant referee Darren England had checked the unique offside name however determined the on-field resolution was appropriate. No offside strains had been displayed, nevertheless.
“PGMOL acknowledge a big human error occurred in the course of the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool,” the physique chargeable for refereeing video games in English skilled soccer stated in a statment after the sport.
“The objective by Luiz Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field crew of match officers. This was a transparent and apparent factual error and may have resulted within the objective being awarded by way of VAR intervention, nevertheless, the VAR didn’t intervene.
“PGMOL will conduct a full evaluation into the circumstances which led to the error.”
Liverpool levelled in added time on the finish of the primary half by way of Cody Gakpo and went all the way down to 9 males when Diogo Jota picked up two bookings in fast succession within the second interval.
The Reds defended bravely and appeared to have executed sufficient to assert a draw till Joel Matip’s personal objective within the sixth minute of added time.
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