Controversial Offside Play by Luis Díaz in Liverpool’s Defeat against Tottenham: VAR Errors and Protocol Review

Luis Díaz and his controversial offside play in Liverpool’s defeat against Tottenham

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The English Premier League took measures to avoid VAR errors such as the one that led to the legal goal against Colombian Luis Díaz being annulled in Tottenham Hotspur-Liverpool, as explained this Wednesday by Howard Webb, the director of the PGMOL (the association of referees of the Premier League).

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“We’ve put measures in place to make sure the mistake we saw doesn’t happen again,” Webb said on the television show “Match Officials: Mic’d Up,” which reviews referee and referee errors on a monthly basis. VAR in the Premier League.

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According to Webb, work must be done to improve communication between the on-field referees and those in the VAR, as well as fine-tuning the protocol, one of the reasons why the error in Tottenham-Liverpool was not corrected.

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🗣 “[The referee] didn’t know at all until the end of the game.”

PMGOL chief Howard Webb answers questions on Luis Diaz’s incorrectly disallowed for Liverpool against Tottenham 🔴⚽ pic.twitter.com/3lF0mx0FIQ

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In this match, a goal by Luis Díaz was disallowed for offside and, although the VAR showed that it was a legal goal, the communication was not correct, the VAR referee made the mistake of thinking that the goal had been validated and once the game had resumed, the protocol did not allow for reversal.

Webb assured that the IFAB is working to improve all these problems and that a change in the protocol for this technology could be seen in the near future.

“I know that the IFAB, even before this happened, was planning to do a review of the rules related to VAR,” Webb added.

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In addition, the Premier also plans to review, together with the English federation, the possibility that referees can work in other federations, as was the case of the VAR referees of the aforementioned match, who the same week were refereeing in the United Arab Emirates.

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2023-10-11 13:34:56
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