VAR’s baffling explanation of Virgil van Dijk goal disallowed vs. Man City

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Virgil van Dijk looked to have levelled the scores before half-time with a brilliant header against Man City, only to be harshly ruled out for Andy Robertson‘s offside. Van Dijk headed in from a Mohamed Salah delivery to cancel out Erling Haaland’s own headed opener – but soon after saw his goal ruled out as the linesman waved his flag.

Their statement reads: “The referee’s call of offside and no goal to Liverpool was checked and confirmed by VAR – with Robertson in an offside position and deemed to be making an obvious action directly in front of the goalkeeper.” Robertson was stood near Man City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but was clearly not blocking the Italian’s view of a header he had no chance of saving regardless. Man City were earlier given a penalty after Giorgi Mamardashvili grazed Doku’s trailing leg with his knee, only for the Georgian to deny Haaland from the spot.

There was little Mamardashvili could do for Haaland’s looping header for 1-0, however. Liverpool are right to be fuming.” Man City then went into half-time 2-0 up as midfielder Nico Gonzalez’s long-range effort deflected in off Van Dijk’s attempted block.