The Premier League have introduced a significant change to VAR protocol forward of this weekend’s video games with the intention to keep away from one other calamity after Liverpool’s sport towards Tottenham final week.
The PGMOL and VAR have come beneath heavy criticism this previous week after a ‘vital human error’ value Liverpool a gap purpose of their 2-1 loss to Spurs final Saturday night.
Luis Diaz had his first-half opener incorrectly dominated out for offside attributable to a communication error between the VAR official and referee.
The PGMOL launched a press release shortly after full-time apologising to Jurgen Klopp’s aspect for the error with Liverpool following up with a proper request for the uncooked audio recordsdata.
With a purpose to keep away from any future such incidents, the PGMOL has introduced that it will likely be altering the VAR protocol.
Any more, the VAR official should verify his resolution together with his assistant earlier than relaying it to the on-field referee.
In Klopp’s press convention on Thursday, he acknowledged {that a} replay of the sport could be a very good decision however that it could by no means occur.
“It’s vital we actually cope with it in a correct manner. I imply the entire folks concerned, the referee, linesman, fourth official and VAR – they didn’t do it on objective. Sure it was a mistake, an apparent mistake.
“I say this not as supervisor of Liverpool however as a soccer particular person – I feel the one final result needs to be a replay. Most likely won’t occur.”