Jamie Carragher raises referee suspicion as Virgil van Dijk controversy stuns Liverpool

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Virgil van Dijk saw his goal disallowed for offside in Liverpool's 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League and Jamie Carragher believes the decision was incorrectFormer Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher says Virgil van Dijk's equaliser against Manchester City should have been allowed to stand. Arne Slot's team were outplayed and underwhelming during the opening period against City, with the Dutchman's header potentially offering an unexpected way back into the match.Nevertheless it was deemed offside, leaving Liverpool's player stunned, and just before the break, Nico Gonzalez's deflected strike caught Giorgi Mamardashvili off guard to double the home side's advantage.

"For me, it's a goal."You maybe think you can see why it's been given, you look at Andy Robertson's position, is he impacting the goalkeeper? What a lot of people have looked at, when the ball comes to Van Dijk's head, I can totally understand why that would be given as offside because Andy Robertson looks really close to the goalkeeper."Keep an eye on Donnarumma and where he shifts his weight, Donnarumma's weight is going to his right, so he's moving the opposite way, his foot has planted at exactly the time it goes over Andy Robertson's head."That is the true moment we should be looking at, not when it leaves Van Dijk's head, but when Robertson makes an action to get out of the way of the ball.

Exactly [the duck is irrelevant], he can see everything, his initial movement to the right and he's now diving full stretch."He's not impacting him one bit. He's already diving at full stretch for the header because he misreads it."He thinks the ball is going in the other side, he can see it clearly, Robertson getting out of the way of the ball, and you've mentioned the rules, it has absolutely no bearing on what happens here."Carragher also questioned how the decision was reached on the pitch.