{"id":294622,"date":"2023-09-30T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=294622"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:34:54","slug":"pgmol-admit-luis-diazs-goal-against-tottenham-should-have-stood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/pgmol-admit-luis-diazs-goal-against-tottenham-should-have-stood\/","title":{"rendered":"PGMOL admit Luis Diaz&apos;s goal against Tottenham SHOULD have stood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Liverpool receive apology from the PGMOL after latest major VAR blunder incorrectly ruled out Luis Diaz&#8217;s opener in 2-1 defeat at Spurs as refereeing board put it down to a &#8216;significant human error&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diaz saw his strike ruled out for offside in the first half of Liverpool&#8217;s 2-1 defeat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Replays showed Cristian Romero was playing him on and that has been proven<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PGMOL has admitted that Luis Diaz&#8217;s strike in the first half against Tottenham\u00a0was incorrectly ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool lost 2-1 to Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s side on Saturday evening after Joel Matip&#8217;s late own goal secured three points for the hosts after the Reds has seen both Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota sent off.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool were up against it for the majority of the game due to the dismissals, but nearly held on for a point with nine men in north London.<\/p>\n<p>They pegged Tottenham back just before half time when Cody Gakpo struck to cancel out Son Heung-min&#8217;s opener, and many thought Diaz&#8217;s finish with the score at 0-0 was bizarrely ruled out for offside even after a VAR check.<\/p>\n<p>That has now been acknowledged by the refereeing body in what is their latest statement in what has been a string of apologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019319-0-image-a-123_1696101610271.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>PGMOL has acknowledged that Luis Diaz&#8217;s goal against Tottenham was incorrectly ruled out<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019659-12579341-image-a-138_1696102728768.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Diaz thought he had fired home to put Liverpool ahead in the first half only to see the flag raised by the assistant referee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019927-12579341-image-a-147_1696103724784.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The goal as ruled out despite replays clearing showing Diaz was being played onside by Cristian Romero<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool,&#8217; the statement began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The goal but 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;PGMOL will immediately be contacting Liverpool at the conclusion of the fixture to acknowledge the error.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Darren England was the man tasked with VAR duties for the match, with\u00a0Dan Cook acting as assistant VAR.<\/p>\n<p>The goal came about when Liverpool countered just moments after Jones was sent off. Mohamed Salah played through Diaz, who slotted home, but the goal was immediately flagged offside.<\/p>\n<p>Replays seemed to show the forward was onside and that has now been confirmed by the refereeing body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville slammed the decision on Sky Sports, saying: &#8216;We have the lines on the pitch. These groundspeople never get a line wrong. They are so accurate. Look at the lines on the pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019809-12579341-image-a-144_1696103350952.jpg\" height=\"377\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>beIN Sports drew their own lines on their broadcast to show how the goal should have stood<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76018517-12579341-image-a-145_1696103431556.jpg\" height=\"416\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham eventually won the game when Joel Matip put through his own net deep into stoppage time<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019853-12579341-image-a-146_1696103481279.jpg\" height=\"454\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville slammed the decision for being made &#8216;too quick&#8217; when speaking on Sky Sports<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve defended VAR offsides as a matter of fact. There&#8217;s been a few I thought that&#8217;s not right. To me that one there&#8230; just no. It was all too quick. It was so quick. It wasn&#8217;t right. At the time I was like, OK let&#8217;s move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That is clearly Romero&#8217;s foot and Diaz&#8217;s shoulder. There&#8217;s only two players in shot. It&#8217;s almost now like what are they doing? They&#8217;re picking the wrong cameras to do the lines on&#8230; the wrong angles. It&#8217;s just weird! Something doesn&#8217;t feel right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Sky pundit Jamie Carragher posted on X: &#8216;Shocking mistake, but this is nothing to do with the drawing of lines. The VAR have missed the Spurs centre back &amp; have gone off Diaz clearly ahead of the full back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This season when an offside has been obvious they have tried to speed it up by getting the game going quickly again &amp; not drew the lines. An awful mistake to not see the Spurs defender with the outstretched leg.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, meanwhile, led the protests when speaking to Sky Sports after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was reluctant to criticise too heavily as it is &#8216;expensive&#8217;, he did express general frustrations at the quality of officiating in the league.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76019707-12579341-image-a-139_1696102963812.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp expressed his anger at the decision following full time\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/20\/76020015-12579341-image-a-148_1696103942210.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Klopp was angered by the decision at the time and said after the game that he knew the goal should have stood<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On the pitch, never. We saw it. Never offside. Half-time first thing, they drew the lines wrong,&#8217; he began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t hear anything. Somebody opened the phone and Instagram, Twitter, someone put it on. It&#8217;s clear they drew the line wrong and didn&#8217;t judge the moment when Mo passed the ball. I&#8217;m pretty sure people will speak about that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u00a0&#8216;What it does today is undermine other decisions. You start to undermine the process of offside. That is a really bad one. On the point of who does it help that Klopp said, I&#8217;m disappointed in that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A lot of people in football don&#8217;t say sorry and blame other people. The idea that the referees have come out and said I got it wrong, it&#8217;s human error, they admitted their mistake. You don&#8217;t get many players owning up, including myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to see someone lose their job but it&#8217;s a really bad one. I hope the person who has done it can get a couple of games off but can come back in. Liverpool fans cannot see that. I feel sorry for them! It&#8217;s me going soft after 11 years at Man United.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have to feel a degree of empathy. It undermines offsides. I was worried about offsides for a few weeks. I thought some things were not right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s so tough to deal with it. I really thought during the game we were really calm. It was difficult to deal with. You see that and think, OK, wow a red card? Next red card too? Today is a proper knock for us as we would have celebrated a point, now no point. That&#8217;s not cool. Performance is incredible. I loved that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/21\/76020267-12579341-image-m-150_1696104335312.jpg\" height=\"748\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah &#8216;liked&#8217; a tweet proving the goal was onside on X &#8211; his first like since 2017<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Who does that help? We had it in the Man United game. Did Wolves get points for it? We won&#8217;t. It doesn&#8217;t help. Nobody expects 100 per cent right decision on field. We thought VAR might make it easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why are they under that much pressure for the decision to be made really quick today? It changed the momentum. In a game where you don&#8217;t get a lot, that&#8217;s super important. It was super difficult.<\/p>\n<p>When pushed on the error, he replied:\u00a0&#8216;I will not follow on that path. It may be funny for you but for me it&#8217;s just expensive&#8217;, before leaving the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Reds forward Salah, who was frustrated after setting up the strike, &#8216;liked&#8217; a post on X proving the decision was wrong &#8211; his first like since 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12579341\/PGMOL-admit-Luis-Diaz-goal-Tottenham-stood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool receive apology from the PGMOL after latest major VAR blunder incorrectly ruled out Luis Diaz&#8217;s opener in 2-1 defeat <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PGMOL admit Luis Diaz&amp;apos;s goal against Tottenham SHOULD have stood - 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