Liverpool reportedly believe Virgil van Dijk\u2019s disallowed goal should have stood, with senior club officials rejecting claims that Andy Robertson obstructed Gianluigi Donnarumma\u2019s view, according to The Athletic. The club also feel that the standard VAR checks were not properly followed during the review.<\/p>\n
Michael Oliver, who was in charge of VAR for Sunday\u2019s match, has faced criticism from supporters for not advising referee Chris Kavanagh to review the incident on the pitchside monitor. After the game, Liverpool boss Arne Slot insisted it was \u201cobvious and clear that the wrong decision has been made,\u201d adding that Robertson \u201cdidn\u2019t interfere at all with what the goalkeeper could do.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Reddit post from haliqcapital, citing Transfermarkt data, highlighted Oliver\u2019s record in Liverpool matches since the 2020\u201321 season \u2014 23 games in total, yielding eight wins, eight draws, and seven defeats, a 34.8% win rate.<\/p>\n
Virgil van Dijk also voiced his frustration after the match, saying, \u201cI think the goal should have stood. The explanation was that the goalkeeper was hindered or something like that? But someone showed me a clip of Manchester City scoring against Wolves last year with the same referee.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI\u2019ve probably said too much already. The decision\u2019s been made \u2014 we lost 3-0, and we\u2019re not looking for excuses. We just have to accept it and move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liverpool reportedly believe Virgil van Dijk\u2019s disallowed goal should have stood, with senior club officials rejecting claims that Andy Robertson obstructed Gianluigi Donnarumma\u2019s view, according to The Athletic. The club also feel that the standard VAR checks were not properly followed during the review. Michael Oliver, who was in charge of VAR for Sunday\u2019s match, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/resize-11-2.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54231,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224\/revisions\/54231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eplbanter.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}