Clearly, Liverpool will not have been spared this Saturday afternoon on the pitch at Hotspur Stadium. Indeed, reduced to 9 against 11, the Reds saw Tottenham snatch victory in added time on an own goal from Joel Matip (1-2). At a press conference at the end of the match counting for the seventh day of the Premier League, the coach of the Mersey club, Jürgen Klopp, gave a big rant to the journalists concerning the officials responsible for the assistance video refereeing (VAR), which notably failed to review the goal ultimately refused to Luis Diaz for a non-existent offside position.
Who is she helping now? We had this situation in the match against Manchester United, did Wolves get any points for that? No ! We won’t get points for this, so there’s no point. Nobody expects decisions made on the pitch to be 100% correct, but I think we all thought that the arrival of VAR could make things easier. I don’t know why, are the VAR people under so much pressure? Today the decision was made very quickly, I would say, for Luis Diaz’s goal? It changed the dynamic of the match, that’s what it is. We scored this goal, it was really top, top, top, it was very well played. In a match where you don’t have many opportunities to feel better, you do this, it’s super important information. That’s how you can hurt them, that’s how you can beat them, things like that. So it was very difficult, but the boys handled the situation very well.
