{"id":345190,"date":"2023-11-09T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345190"},"modified":"2023-11-10T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:02:19","slug":"liverpool-fumes-as-ridiculous-var-call-proves-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345190","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool fumes as 'ridiculous' VAR call proves costly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool's<\/a> comeback fell short in a 3-2 loss at Toulouse in the Europa League<\/a> but it was still a victorious day for striker Luis D\u00edaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz's father was released hours before the match, 12 days after his kidnapping in northern Colombia by members of the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, or ELN.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz didn\u2019t score but still tested Toulouse goalkeeper Guillaume Restes with a low right-footed shot from outside the area in the first half.<\/p>\n

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Aron D\u00f8nnum scored in the first half and Thijs Dallinga doubled the advantage just before the hour mark for the hosts, who lost 5-1 at Anfield two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

An own goal from Cristian C\u00e1sseres made it 2-1 in the 74th minute but Frank Magri quickly restored the two-goal lead.<\/p>\n

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Diogo Jota came on for Diaz in the 81st minute and scored eight minutes later. Liverpool thought it equalised in stoppage time but Jarell Quansah's goal was disallowed by VAR.<\/p>\n

The referee was alerted to a handball by Alexis Mac Allister in the lead up to the goal which sparked a wave of criticism from fans and pundits.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"This is ridiculous. It's poor refereeing," former professional footballer Jay Bothroyd said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

"I don't think anyone knows what's going on with VAR – I've said it before. It's been a good game of football and now it's going to be dominated by VAR, and that's a problem.<\/p>\n

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"VAR came in to these competitions to make decisions beyond doubt. But there's still so much doubt.<\/p>\n

"That's going to be the news tomorrow but really it should be about the game."<\/p>\n

The game was J\u00fcrgen Klopp's 450th as manager for Liverpool.<\/p>\n

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Before it, Klopp told told TNT Sports the Colombia striker was \u201creally happy\u201d with the news that his father was freed.<\/p>\n

After the game, he was not that happy with his team's performance.<\/p>\n

"It was well deserved to lose because they won pretty much all the decisive challenges, battles," Klopp said. \u201cWe have too many situations where we should have won the ball but we didn't."<\/p>\n

Liverpool leads Group E with nine points from four games. Toulouse trails by two in second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool's comeback fell short in a 3-2 loss at Toulouse in the Europa League but it was still a victorious day for striker Luis D\u00edaz. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345200,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345190\/revisions\/345200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}