Liverpool VAR Mistake: Postecoglou Reacts To Spurs’ Late Goal

Tottenham head coach, Ange Postecoglou, has aired his views on the incorrect VAR decision against Liverpool in their fixture last weekend.

Ange Postecoglou said it was unlikely he would have allowed Liverpool to score after Luis Diaz’s goal was wrongly disallowed against Tottenham.

Jurgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, raised the possibility of a replay after Diaz’s goal was chalked off for offside due to a mix-up in the VAR room as Spurs went on to win 2-1 in stoppage time.

Asked if he would have let Liverpool score had the officials given him the chance, Postecoglou said: “I just don’t see that.”

Jamie Carragher claims that Jurgen Klopp will be looking to create a siege mentality at Liverpool following Luis Diaz’s goal against Tottenham being incorrectly ruled out and suggests that the PGMOL should be able to learn from the VAR error.

“If we want managers to be the arbiters of these kind of things… we’ve got pretty hefty responsibilities at our football clubs but we’re not the custodians.

“I wouldn’t make a decision that could potentially send a club down on the back of what my beliefs are.

“In that moment, if somebody could tell me that they could explain everything that went on within the prism of 30 seconds… I have to make a decision and it wasn’t going to happen.

“It’s different if it’s something clear. It was a bad error through a lack of communication but it wasn’t something that was easily explainable. If it was easily explainable, I would assume there would have been more uproar than there was.”

Diaz thought he had put Liverpool – who were down to 10 players at the time – ahead at Spurs, only for the assistant referee to flag him offside.

The VAR review showed the winger was actually onside but Darren England, the VAR, and Dan Cook, the assistant VAR, mistakenly thought the on-field decision had been to award the goal, meaning they told Simon Hooper, the referee, to stick with his decision.

Audio released by PGMOL reveals England and Cook were alerted to their error by the replay operator in the seconds after the game restarted with a Spurs free-kick.