Will Liverpool’s VAR pain galvanise them?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
James Pearce and Oli Kay are alongside Ayo Akinwolere to react to Liverpool's VAR-impacted defeat at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.
Both the PGMOL and Liverpool have issued statements following Luis Diaz's first half 'offside' effort not being overturned by VAR, with the panel dissecting events around the mistake made at Stockley Park.
Plus, there's analysis of the Reds' start to the season who despite seeing their 17-game unbeaten run ended possess one of the league's most devastating attacking line-ups as well as remodelling their midfield during the summer transfer window.
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Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | After 17 games unbeaten, Liverpool suffered defeat for the first time since April on Saturday at Tottenham. |
| 0:13.9 | Despite being down to nine men for over 25 minutes and been undone by a late own goal, |
| 0:19.4 | VAR once again stole the headlines with Louis Diaz's |
| 0:23.0 | first half effort not standing. PGMOL acknowledged a significant human error occurred during the first |
| 0:30.1 | half of Tottenham Hotspur against Liverpool. The goal by Luis Diaz was disallowed for offside by the |
| 0:35.2 | on-field team of match officials. Oh no. |
| 0:42.3 | This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention. |
| 0:44.1 | Yes, after their 17 game unbeat and run was ended at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, |
| 0:48.9 | is a new belief and resilience growing with Juergen Klopp's men. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Ayurkiy. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Ayurkiy. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | Okay, so with us for this one, we have the Athletics Liverpool writer James Pierce and |
| 1:05.4 | also Olly Kay as well. |
| 1:07.8 | James, VAR once again rears its very naughty head, especially in this match. It's a really, |
| 1:15.9 | really fascinating decision to deny Liverpool a goal. What's the latest with that? And also, |
| 1:21.1 | what is the latest with Pygmoor as well? I think people are still trying to get their head |
| 1:25.9 | around how you could possibly get something |
| 1:28.7 | so spectacularly wrong as we saw at the Tottenham Huxper Stadium on Saturday night |
| 1:35.3 | because I think as we've seen anyone who thought that VAR coming in would suddenly solve |
| 1:40.0 | everything, I think that myth has been well and truly destroyed over recent seasons, but we |
| 1:46.2 | haven't seen anything anywhere near the level of that. I mean, it almost beggared belief when I was |
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