PGMOL admit Liverpool offside goal should have stood after ‘significant human error’

09/30/2023

“The goal by Luis Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.

“PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.”

Manager Jurgen Klopp dismissed the review as irrelevant to his team after the decisions contributed to his team’s defeat, while also making reference to an incident earlier in the campaign under the same referee, where Wolves were denied a late penalty when Andre Onana should have been penalised for a clear foul.

That incident ended in referee Hooper being stood down immediately into the new season, but he has since returned for three Premier League games.

“How’s the statement help now? We had the situation in the Manchester United game and did Wolves get points for it? No. And we will not get points for today,” Klopp said.

“So it doesn’t help. Nobody expects 100 per cent right decisions on-field.

“We all thought when VAR came in it might make things easier, but I don’t know why people in VAR… are they under that much pressure?

“The decision was made really quickly. It changed the momentum of the game. I knew at half-time, in the first moment I saw it’s a clean onside.

PGMOL admit Liverpool offside goal should have stood after ‘significant human error’

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