The anger of the Liverpool players after the VAR fiasco against Toulouse

Liverpool have moved the 'ghosts' of VAR in the Premier League to the UEFA Europa League, where once again, they were involved with a controversial marking. If a communication error in the Reds' match against Tottenham disallowed a goal, something similar happened now against Toulouse, although the referee corrected it in time. Those led by Jurgen Klopp fell 3-1 in France at the end of the match when Diogo Jota made them excited with a comeback in the 89th minute.

With the Reds taking the lead, controversy occurred at the Municipal Stadium until the 6th minute of added time, when Georgi Nikolov Kabakov scored a goal from Jarell Quansah; which generated complaints from Toulouse for a handball, and where three players saw the yellow card. The Bulgarian referee was called from above to review a handball by Alexis Mac Allister; However, it validated the annotation for the second time, even though the cameras showed that there was an infraction. After pointing to the center of the field for the match to resume, they spoke to the whistler again through the communication headsets, warning him that there was indeed a handball from the Argentine.

At that time, Georgi Nikolov Kabakov turned with a surprised face, and instead visited the VAR booth to review the play, and after watching it, he realized that there was a handball by Mac Allister. In the end, a curious moment in France, where a goal was scored at the beginning, they endorsed it... and then, they reviewed it so that it was annulled. With this result, Liverpool were left with 9 points in Group E of the UEFA Europa League; while Toulouse took a golden victory to climb to second place with 7 points, and separate themselves from Union St. Gilloise, who stagnated with 4 points. After being beaten 3-0 by LASK, they added their first units.

The anger

Those who spoke were Harvey Elliot and Joe Gomez and they said the following: With VAR and stuff, you can never celebrate too early. They gave it and then they didn't give it so I don't know what was going on. We have another important game on Sunday against Brentford. We need to put this behind us." And then Gómez: “Obviously disappointing. We were chasing the game and never got settled. It's frustrating the decisions didn't go our way but we shouldn't have been in that position in the first place.”