'Significant human error' - PGMOL admit mistake over disallowed Luis Diaz goal for Liverpool

Refereeing body PGMOL have said that a decision to disallow Luis Diaz’s goal for Liverpool against Tottenham was "a significant human error".

Liverpool ended the match with nine men and lost 2-1 on Saturday afternoon, but at 0-0 - when already down to 10 men - Diaz appeared to put Jurgen Klopp’s men ahead.

However, the goal was chalked off.

PGMOL subsequently released a statement, saying: "PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred. PGMOL will conduct a full review."

"The goal by Luiz [sic] Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene."

Speaking after the match, Klopp said: "That is not offside when you see it.

"The ball is between Mo [Salah]'s legs, they drew the line wrong and didn't judge the moment when Mo passed the ball right.

"I don't think we should talk too much about that because it doesn't help at all," he added.

"Wolves got a similar statement, or apology. They didn't get a point out of United and we won't get a point today so it doesn't help.

"I am pretty sure no one is making mistakes on purpose but it still happened and at this moment I don't know why. [We had] scored a fantastic goal - would it have changed the game? I don't know. But probably, because goals help."

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