Liverpool Boss Jurgen Klopp Wants To Replay Tottenham Game

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp wants his team's EPL game vs Tottenham to be replayed. Klopp wants a replay due to a VAR error that disallowed a Luis Diaz goal.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has called for his team's Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur to be replayed.

Spurs beat the Reds 2-1 on Saturday after Klopp's side had been shown two red cards.

But the real controversy centered on a goal that was incorrectly disallowed for offside.

The goal, scored by Luis Diaz when the game was tied at 0-0, was originally flagged as offside by an assistant referee.

It was then reviewed by VAR Darren England, who drew lines over an image of the incident to show that Diaz had actually been onside.

However, when England said the words "check complete" - his cue to inform on-field referee Simon Hooper to restart the game - he did so wrongly thinking that he was confirming that the goal was legitimate, rather than that the offside call had been correct.

VAR protocols stipulate that a decision cannot be changed once a match has restarted following a review.

Therefore, despite the VAR team realizing within seconds that they had made an error, Diaz's goal could not be awarded.

🚨The PGMOL have revealed that the VAR team involved in Saturday’s fixture between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool gave consideration as to whether the game could be stopped.

⚠️VAR officials quickly realised the communication error which had taken place following Luiz Diaz’s… pic.twitter.com/WvpRGLJjLQ

— Last Word On Spurs (@LastWordOnSpurs) October 3, 2023

Klopp spoke to the media on Wednesday, 24 hours after the audio of the VAR's interaction with referee Hooper had been made public.

"The audio didn't change it at all," Klopp told reporters.

"It is an obvious mistake. There should be solutions for that. The outcome should be a replay. But it probably won't happen.

"The argument against that would be it opens the gates. It is unprecedented. I'm used to wrong and difficult decisions, but something like this never happened.

"Something like this never happened, so that is why I think a replay is the right thing to do."

It is understood that there is no chance that the Premier League will order the game to be replayed.

Tottenham's 2-1 win - which was decided by a 96th-minute own goal from Joel Matip - ended Liverpool's unbeaten start to the season.

Klopp was speaking to the media on the eve of Liverpool's UEFA Europa League home game against Royale Union Saint-Gilloise of Belgium.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp pictured during a press conference before his team's UEFA Europa League game against Royale Union Saint-Gilloise :: IMAGO/PA Images/Nigel French