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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

The Agenda: Liverpool's VAR Woes - and surely there must be a different way?

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool have been on the wrong side of two big VAR decisions this week. A soft penalty was given for Napoli in Tuesday's Champions League opener when Andy Robertson was judged to have fouled Jose Callejon, despite replays appearing to show minimal contact, while Joel Matip can feel unlucky not to have been awarded a spot-kick against Newcastle United at Anfield in the Premier League on Saturday when he was grappled to the floor during a corner. Liverpool.com's Joel Rabinowitz and Dan Austin look at back those decisions and VAR in a wider context to discuss the pros and cons, whether it's working, and how it could be done differently. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Agenda Podcast on the Blood Red channel, taking a bite-sized look at some of the big

0:08.3

Liverpool FC talking points.

0:10.5

Hello, this is the Agenda on Blood Red. points. FC topic of the day and today it's VAR because if you saw the match last night

0:25.0

you'll be fully aware that Napoli won a penalty to go 1-0 up that Jose Callahan

0:30.2

won in a I didn't even call it a challenge I was going to say

0:33.9

tackle I'll just say an incident with Andy Robertson where he went down under

0:38.8

very minimal pressure it looked like he threw himself down before

0:43.5

Robertson sort of changed his body shape as though he was going to make a challenge

0:47.4

It was looked up by VA they left it. It wasn't apparently a clear and obvious error

0:52.1

Napoli going to win the game.

0:54.0

There was the one at Newcastle as well where Joel Matep is hauled down in the box in front of the

1:00.3

cop and apparentlyangled place.

1:02.5

Apparently they don't even really like take a proper look at it.

1:06.2

It just isn't working is it like even for people who are advocates of

1:10.3

VAR and of technology generally in football. I don't think anyone can make a coherent case at the

1:15.6

minute that this is actually functioning in a positive way, the changes they came for the better.

1:20.8

No, and I say this openly as someone who was kind of quite pro-V-A-R and before this season

1:26.2

started, mainly because I was just fed up of seeing them will just not get penalties at

1:30.3

Anfield mainly but we should have been getting.

1:31.9

I think I saw a stat on

1:33.0

Twitter the other day but we've had it's two penalties in like two and a half

1:36.9

nearly three years at Anfield now we've reached as many Champions League

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