Diaz was flagged offside, however, replays later revealed that he was indeed onside. The VAR audio from that incident has since been released by the PGMOL.
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Liverpool suffered their first defeat of the 2023-24 Premier League season in controversial fashion last weekend. The Reds lost the match due to a late own goal away to Tottenham Hotspur. However, the main talking point was earlier in the game when Luis Diaz’s goal was wrongly disallowed. The winger was flagged offside, however, replays later revealed that he was indeed onside. The VAR audio from that incident has since been released by the PGMOL.
Jurgen Klopp, however, revealed that he was not waiting for the audio. Ahead of Liverpool’s Europa League contest against Union SG, Klopp had his say about the incident and the audio being released. “The audio didn’t change it at all because I was not really interested in that why things happened because I saw the outcome, I saw a goal we scored and it didn’t count. So I was now not waiting for the audio and then sitting there and hoping I find out how it could happen or whatever,” Klopp, quoted by the club’s website, said ahead of the game.
He added: “What I want to say is it’s really important that, as big as football is and as important as football is for us at least, that we really deal with it in a proper way. And I mean that all the people involved – on-field ref, linesmen, fourth official and especially now in this case VAR – they didn’t do that on purpose and we should not forget that. Yes, it was a mistake, an obvious mistake and I think there would have been solutions for it afterwards. And I can say immediately, even probably some people don’t want me to say, but not as the manager of Liverpool so much, more as a football person, I think the outcome should be a replay. That’s how it is, probably will not happen.”
The Liverpool manager also revealed that he is not angry with anyone and no one should be punished for the debacle. “I’m not angry with anybody of them or whatever, not at all, and I really think it’s not only the respect but the only thing for human beings in general [is] that you should not go for them really. It’s not allowed to go for them in no way. They made a mistake and they felt horrible that night, I’m 100 per cent sure, and that’s enough for me. So nobody needs further punishment or whatever,” he added.
Liverpool ended the game against Tottenham Hotspur with nine men yet they showed a lot of fight till the end. When asked how much spirit does that give them, Klopp replied, “Yeah, yeah, of course. We will see. That’s what we have to prove. How I said, a defeat is only a real defeat if you don’t learn or if you don’t take anything [out] of it. We can take a lot out of it. But we will see how to use that. That’s it. But again, we had a good spirit before that, I didn’t need any kind of proof.”
He added: “But it’s how it is in football, you need to prove yourself all the time and that’s what we did again. It was really good, really, really special, top mentality, all these kind of things. And that’s what we need tomorrow night as well because we face a team who is flying in the league, is obviously top of the table and is doing really, really well again after losing key players, doing well again, unbeaten in Europe away for a long time. Super-special what they are doing there and we have to be ready.”
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