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Watford forward Troy Deeney has suggested that referees should admit to their mistakes after several controversial incidents in the Merseyside derby.
Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk was ruled indefinitely after a tackle by Jordan Pickford went unpunished when the Dutch defender was declared offside.
Jordan Henderson thought he had scored the winning goal against Everton before the VAR ruled that Sadio Mane was offside in preparation, even though freeze frames were unclear on which part of the Senegal forward’s body he wasn’t really in an offside position.
The VAR team in charge of Everton against Liverpool did NOT forget to look for a red card when Jordan Pickford cleaned out Virgil van Dijk, ECHO reported yesterday.
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk is set for a period on the sidelines due to an injury sustained during the Merseyside derby. Virgil will face surgery and a rehabilitation process before he can return for the Reds.
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But it is accepted that the laws of the game may have been applied incorrectly in this situation.
A penalty shot was made impossible once the offside decision was made, as the step of the game had indeed ended.
What was then introduced was an element of subjectivity: did Pickford’s challenge amount to serious foul play worthy of a red card in its own right?
Sources within the Premier League admit that it could, and perhaps should, have been an expulsion on that basis.
However, Stockley Park’s assessment and VAR referee David Coote deemed him unworthy of punishment.
Now, Troy Deeney has spoken out saying that only the match officials are to blame for what happened and that they should do more to acknowledge their mistakes as the players would.
Speaking on talkSPORT He said, “They have made the mistake. It is not like the process. The process is all there. You can go and say ‘go take a look at it, it doesn’t look very good’.
“If you look at it now, Virgil will probably be out of the game for six or seven months and all they got was that he was out of play. That is really poor. Today’s game is really poor. “
Deeney admits that high-level umpires needed additional help to make the right decisions more consistently with VAR – a method of doing just that – but when umpires are wrong, technology is not to blame.
Instead, the championship striker suggests they should face the public and acknowledge their mistakes, as any Premier League player or coach would be expected to do.
He said: “Before VAR, it was a lot like the referee’s need for help and we have to give them the technology. We have given them help and technology. Now it is as if we blame the technology and not the referees. You have to go hand in hand.
“A player makes a mistake, there is a reason. Have to go out and talk about it . The coach would come out and talk about it, with the referees it seems they are never held accountable for what they do.
“As players, you get frustrated, if you turn around and say ‘I was wrong’, nobody can say anything.”
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Liverpool sought information on the incident surrounding the potential unauthorized winner and how the process unfolded, as well as clarity on which part of Mane’s body was deemed offside in preparation for the hit that was scored.
The club is awaiting further details from the Premier League and it was also confirmed that Pickford is not in line to face any retrospective action.
The FA will only award such penalties for incidents not seen by any official, on the field or in Stockley Park.
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