Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp wants the club’s Premier League match with Tottenham on Saturday night to be replayed.
The Reds were wronged in north London after a goal from Luis Diaz was incorrectly chalked off for offside.
Replays showed the Colombia international was clearly on but officials in the VAR studio refused to give the goal and instead ruled it out.
Liverpool went on to lose 2-1, with Son Heung-min scoring for Tottenham before a dramatic own goal from Joel Matip at the death.
Liverpool were livid after a goal wasn’t given by VAR in Saturday’s defeat to Tottenham
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And Klopp has now revealed he wants the match to be replayed.
“The audio didn’t change it at all because I was not really interested in why things happened because I knew – I saw the outcome, I saw the goal and we scored,” he said, referring to audio released to the club by PGMOL.
“It didn’t count so I was not waiting for the audio and a statement and hoping to find out how it could happen.
“I think the only outcome should be a replay.
“That’s how it is, [although that] probably will not happen.”
On why he feels a replay would be the correct decision, the German continued: “The argument against that probably will be that if you open that gate then everybody will ask for it.
“I think the situation is that unprecedented that it didn’t happen before.
“Something like that, as far as I can remember, never happened that’s why I think a replay would be the right thing.
“If it would happen again then I think the replay would be the right thing to do.
“Or the ref has the opportunity to bring both coaches together and say ‘sorry we made a mistake but we can sort it, let Liverpool score a goal and we start from there’.”
“I am not angry with anybody at all.
“They [the match officials] made a mistake and they felt horrible that night, I am 100 per cent sure.
“That’s enough, for me. Nobody needs further punishment.”
Trent Alexander-Arnold was asked about the error as well.
And the Liverpool star has challenged his side to win both of their matches before the international break in order to regain momentum.
The Merseyside giants face Union Saint-Gilloise in the Europa League on Thursday – before then locking horns with Brighton on Sunday.
Alexander-Arnold stated: “Taking out the circumstances and what actually happened, putting that aside, we lost a game.
“No matter what happens now, you lose the game.
“So our motivation now is we have two games before the international break comes and we want to, and feel like we need to, win both of the games.
“It will be difficult to do so but we think we are capable of doing that so that is where our focus lies.”
Klopp and Alexander-Arnold’s comments come after Liverpool released a strong statement shortly after the VAR scandal.
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“Liverpool Football Club acknowledges PGMOL’s admission of their failures last night,” he said.
“It is clear that the correct application of the laws of the game did not occur, resulting in sporting integrity being undermined.
“We fully accept the pressures that match officials work under but these pressures are supposed to be alleviated, not exacerbated, by the existence and implementation of VAR.
“It is therefore unsatisfactory that sufficient time was not afforded to allow the correct decision to be made and that there was no subsequent intervention.
“That such failings have already been categorised as ‘significant human error’ is also unacceptable.
“Any and all outcomes should be established only by the review and with full transparency.”
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