Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said the lateness of the PGMOL's statement on the controversy in the Reds' defeat at Tottenham was a sign of a "f*** up".
Jurgen Klopp's team were handed a last-gasp defeat in North London when Joel Matip diverted a Pedro Porro cross beyond his own goalkeeper in the final minute of stoppage-time. The more contentious moments came earlier, though, with Liverpool reduced to 10 men and seeing a tight offside call go against them.
Debate has continued over Curtis Jones' red card, which was upgraded from a yellow after a VAR check, though Diogo Jota's red for a pair of quickfire bookings brought fewer complaints. The bigger issue surrounded Luis DIaz's disallowed goal, though, with PGMOL later noting a "significant error" had been made in failing to go to VAR on the tight call.
Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville was blown away by the statement, deeming it "unbelievable" and "really, really bad". Carragher wasn't on duty for the game, but made his feelings clear on social media.
"When it takes this long for an answer from @FA_PGMOL over a contentious decision you know there’s been a f**k up!," Carragher wrote. He posted the comment during the second half, with PGMOL's response only being made public after the final whistle.
"PGMOL acknowledges significant human error occurred during the first-half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool," PGMOL said. "The goal by Luis Diaz was disallowed by the on-field team of match officials.
"That 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. PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error. PGMOL will immediately be contacting Liverpool at the conclusion of the fixture to acknowledge the error."
The scores were level at 0-0 when Diaz's goal was chalked off. Moments later, Spurs took the lead themselves as James Maddison played through Richarlison and the Brazilian rolled the ball across for captain Son Heung-min to tap home.
Jones had already been sent off at this stage, but Liverpool shook off their man disadvantage to level the scores through Cody Gakpo. It stayed 1-1 as the board went up to show six added minutes at the end of the second half, but Liverpool couldn't quite cling on.
"I was never more proud of the team than today," Liverpool manager Klopp said after the defeat. "I never saw a game like this with the most unfair circumstances, crazy decisions.
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"We scored an own goal, that is really tough to take but I am really proud. The first red card, Curtis steps on the ball and goes over. Not a bad tackle. It looks different in slow motion. He steps full throttle on the ball and goes over the ball. That is unlucky.
"[For Diogo Jota] first yellow was not a yellow. Then he gets a second and to defend with nine players is tricky. You want to build something you need players with mentality and I saw them today, they fought. Pretty special tonight."
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