Liverpool challenge PGMOL on VAR dispute

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Liverpool have contested Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed goal against Manchester City. Van Dijk appeared to have drawn the Premier League champions level during Sunday’s eventual 3-0 defeat at Manchester City with an equalising first-half header.

Kavanagh cited Andy Robertson ducking out of the way of the effort as both an offside and ‘making an obvious action’ directly in front of Gianluigi Donnarumma. Although Arne Slot did not cite the incident as a cause for his side’s latest defeat, the Reds have challenged the decision with Professional Games Match Officials.

Anfield chiefs are understood to have argued that Robertson’s actions in front of Donnarumma do not apply to the wording of Law 11 in the laws of the game. It states: “Interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a teammate, or interfering with an opponent by: preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision, or challenging an opponent for the ball or clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball.”