Referees' chief Howard Webb says steps have been taken to avoid a repeat of the controversy surrounding Luis Diaz's disallowed goal for Liverpool in their defeat at Tottenham.
Referees' chief Howard Webb says steps have been taken to avoid a repeat of the controversy surrounding Luis Diaz's disallowed goal for Liverpool against Tottenham.
"One of things this brought into sharp focus is the need to reiterate some of those communication protocols which are really valuable in VAR to prevent this type of thing happening," added Webb on Sky Sports and TNT Sports. The match was goalless - with Liverpool down to 10 men after Curtis Jones' red card for a tackle on Yves Bissouma - when Diaz thought he had put the visitors ahead after 34 minutes.
As England realised an error had been made, Liverpool were on the attack through left-back Andy Robertson and Diaz.At this point Oli Kohout - the VAR Hub operations manager, who was in a different room to the VAR team - communicated the game should be delayed in a bid to rectify the decision. "We wanted to show everybody what was quickly apparent to us was a pretty significant human error - loss of concentration.
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