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'Damage from Misjudgment' Liverpool: "VAR Undermines the Essence of Sports"... Additional Response Notice
On the 1st, Tottenham lost due to an offside error, and the VAR referee in charge was excluded from work.
Liverpool of the English Professional Football Premier League (EPL), which suffered its first loss of the season against Tottenham Hotspur due to an offside decision, officially condemned, saying, "The essence (integrity) of sports was damaged due to an incorrect video review (VAR)."
The Liverpool club issued a statement on its official website on the 2nd (Korean time), saying, “The England Professional Match Officials (PGMOL) has acknowledged the error. 온라인카지노사이트
“As a result of not properly applying the game rules, the fairness of the sport was damaged,” he said.
This VAR incident occurred due to an offside error that occurred in the 2023-2024 EPL 7th round match between Liverpool and Tottenham held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on the 1st (Korean time).
As a result, Liverpool suffered a 1-2 loss and lost 1 point.
In the 34th minute of the first half, Liverpool succeeded in scoring in the 34th minute of the first half when Luis Dias caught Muhammad Salah's penetration pass near the right side of the goal area.
However, the assistant referee raised an offside flag.
Immediately after scoring, the VAR referees checked for offside, but the referee acknowledged the offside.
In response, Liverpool said, "We fully understand the pressure referees are under, but this pressure should be alleviated and not increased by the existence and introduction of VAR."
They added, "There is not enough time to make the right decision.
“I am dissatisfied with the fact that there was no follow-up intervention,” he strongly criticized.
He continued, “It is also unacceptable that this failure has been classified as a ‘serious human mistake.’
Everything must be reexamined in a completely transparent manner.”
Liverpool said, “This is directly related to trust in the future decision-making process,” and added, “We must improve to prevent the same situation from happening again.”
He continued, “In the meantime, we will look for all possible solutions considering the clear need to resolve this situation,” and predicted additional response.
According to the BBC on this day, PGMOL excluded Darren England, who was the VAR referee for the Liverpool-Tottenham match, and Dan Cook, who was the assistant VAR referee, from refereeing duties for the remaining 7 rounds.
PGMOL previously said in a statement, "We acknowledge that there was a serious refereeing error in the first half of the match between Tottenham and Liverpool.
It was a clear mistake that Dias' goal should have been recognized as a goal after VAR intervened, but failed to do so."
He added, "As a result, VAR's intervention was not carried out properly.
PGMOL plans to completely review the process that led to this mistake."
According to ESPN, Diaz's offside situation resulted from miscommunication between the referee and the VAR referee.
The VAR referee thought that the referee had recognized Diaz's goal as a goal and signaled, "The check is over."
The referee judged it to be offside, judging that the assistant referee's offside decision was correct.
Meanwhile, Tottenham coach Angie Postecoglou expressed his dissatisfaction with the VAR system.
“Ever since VAR was introduced, I have never liked the system,” Postekoglou said.
“I think it makes things more complicated in areas that I thought were pretty obvious in the past.”
He added, “Sports is full of historic errors of judgment, but we have accepted them as part of the game, because it is ultimately a human thing.”
“People seem to have the misconception that VAR is never wrong,” said coach Postekoglou.
“I don’t think there is a technical area.
Most of the game is based on ‘interpretation’ rather than ‘facts’, and this is still human.
“Because it is an area,” he said, laying out his logic.