Following VAR’s ‘significant error in disallowing Luis Diaz’s goal for offside,’ Jurgen Klopp has astonishingly demanded that Liverpool’s match against Tottenham be replayed.
Due to a colossal VAR error, officials incorrectly believed the on-field ruling to be “goal,” meaning they claimed the check was finished and the player was clearly onside. As a result, Liverpool’s Colombian winger’s goal was disallowed for offside.
The Reds formally requested the recording on Monday, and their request was granted on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday night, the referee’s organization PGMOL made the audio recordings available to the public, demonstrating that officials were aware of their significant error right away but chose not to stop the game.
He said: ‘The audio didn’t change it at all. I wasn’t interested in why things happened. I saw the outcome, I saw a goal, we scored.
‘It’s important we really deal with it in a proper way. I mean all of the people involved, the referee, linesman, fourth official and especially VAR – they didn’t do it on purpose. We should not forget that. Yes it was a mistake, an obvious mistake.
‘I think there would have been solutions for it. I can say immediately, even though some people wouldn’t want me to say, not as a Liverpool manager, more as a football person, the only outcome should be a replay. That’s how it is. Probably won’t happen.
‘The argument against that probably will be, if we open that gate, then everyone will ask for it. I think that situation is that unprecedented, it didn’t happen before.’
He added: ‘Something like that has never happened. Which is why I think a replay would be the right thing.
‘The argument would be if it would happen again, the replay would be the right thing to do, or the referee has the opportunity to bring both coaches together and say ‘sorry, we made a mistake but we can sort it’ that Liverpool score a goal and go from there.’
