Premier League release full VAR audio of Virgil van Dijk incident after Liverpool complaint

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That's where the subjectivity comes into play."They looked at that action so close to the goalkeeper and formed that opinion."I know that's not a view held by everybody but it's not unreasonable to understand why [the officials] would form that conclusion when the player is so close to the goalkeeper, the ball is coming right towards him and he has to duck to get out of the way."They form the conclusion that it impacts Donnarumma's ability to dive towards the ball and make the save."Once they've made that on-field decision, the job of the VAR is to look at that and decide was the outcome clearly and obviously wrong."Only Donnarumma truly knows if he was impacted by this and we have to look at the factual evidence."On Tuesday the audio footage was released by the Premier League, the full transcript is below.Assistant referee: "Robertson's in line of vision, right in front of the keeper. He's ducked under the ball.

He's very, very close to him. I think he's line of vision.

I think he's (Donnarumma) been impacted, mate."Referee (Chris Kavanagh): "Ok so offside then."Assistant referee: "I think offside."Referee (Chris Kavangh): "On-field decision is offside."VAR (Michael Oliver): "Checking the on-field decision of offside against Andy Robertson. I think it's offside.