Pukkis decision yesterday was worse.
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Liverpool fans acting like they’re mad a VAR when it’s actually helping them, constantly, in almost every game they play. Wouldn’t be so moral and virtuous were they not already champions. Makes the blood boil tbh.
Wolves players are really impressive in possession
Correct. VAR is not to blame, it's the idiots in Stockley park who are making stupid decisions
Doubt if MOTD or PL Review will mention it
You sure? Never heard that. Still need to fix the offside rule through, IMO.
Stupid or controversial?
Thank god fellaini has gone
People on twitter saying it hit Van Dijk’s hand as he controlled it just before he boots it up to llama
A fecking disgrace.
Just realising now that you were being sarcastic this whole time
they won't have time after creaming themselves over VVD's pass back to his goalkeeper
I agree. Before they introduced this, I thought VAR was going to improve those ridiculous decisions where it was obviously offside / not offside. The current approach just doesn’t make sense.
The Dalai Llama?
VAR for offside is crap You can’t accurately pinpoint when the ball left the foot of the passer and trying to draw accurate lines from a 2d picture to millimetre accuracy is a joke.
Even Liverpool’s competition seem to getting the rough end of these decisions and I don’t recall many going against Liverpool under VAR - certainly not when the game is close, maybe when 3 or 4 up?
Rest in pieces football. I don’t like this new Sport.
If that was a wolves defender...
Almost January and we're the only club to have taken points off Liverpool.
Just realising now that you were being sarcastic this whole time
100% they check every goal for offside because it's factual, not subjective.
And we should have won. Better side for most of it
Should have won if Var had sent Fabinho off as they should have done.
King Kenny must have been off that day at the VAR offices.
They are Var protected when things go against them.
Clear and obvious does not come into it for offside. VAR are doing the correct thing as stupid as it is. Pukki yesterday and then Wolves today should not be having goals disallowed for that but the law is the law and until IFAB amend the offside law, then we're stuck with farcical situations like this.
They are doing what they have been instructed to do.
I'd like to see them come up with an interpretation based on the forward gaining a clear advantage to overturn a goal. For examples:
- A forward is not gaining a clear advantage if their armpit is marginally offside, what the heck does that gain them in an attacking sense unless they score with that armpit at that precise moment?
- A forward is not gaining a clear advantage if even his foot is 1/5 inch offside in the build up to a goal.
- As Sourness suggested, if his whole body is standing offside - that is a clear advantage gained.
I'm sure the VAR absolutists will hate it, but I think it's clear we need to relax the enforcement of offside rules when under VAR review.
Agreed, why we are not allowing the referee to look at the monitor in the ground is beyond me, works very well elsewhere.
These super tight off side decisions are eventually going to kill the game, we have to give some benefit of the doubt to the attacker, they are sucking the joy out of the game.
Against Villa while losing 0:1 Firmino was called offside by VAR, and against watford while it was 0:0, Mane's hip was offside by VAR
Arnold is pretty terrible today.
The referee will only look at the monitor on subjective matters. Offside is factual so even if they do start using the monitors, they won't use them for offside
His general lack of ability on the ball does that.
No wonder a Liverpool fan is saying that. It basically fecked Man City over all season and let you remain unbeaten. You would still be top of the league but there is no way you would be so far ahead without VAR.
Even more shocking that they reviewed the whole play and missed that blatant hand control
To all those saying “clear and obvious” doesn’t come into offsides, I think you’ve got the wrong end of the stick.
If someone is miles on and a goal is disallowed, that’s CLEAR AND OBVIOUS.
Same thing if someone is miles off and the goal was given, also CLEAR AND OBVIOUS.
Anything that is touch and go would be the linesman’s room for error, or “umpires call” as it is in cricket.
If someone is miles on and a goal is disallowed, that’s CLEAR AND OBVIOUS.
Same thing if someone is miles off and the goal was given, also CLEAR AND OBVIOUS.
Anything that is touch and go would be the linesman’s room for error, or “umpires call” as it is in cricket.
We’ve had plenty go against us. Had plenty for us too.
Just gets ignored here cause posters like making them feel better by posting LiVARpool and corrupt FA. Funny how it basically mirrors how many talked about SAF, Fergie time etc.
it was bullshit then and it is now.
VAR is a disaster though.
but of the top of my heads calls that have gone against Liverpool:
Firmino armpit offside vs Villa.
Penalty not given vs Sheffield and Villa
Origi foul(which I know people won’t agree with here)
Matip vs Newcastle
We'll do them at Anfield.