Webb backs officials over disallowed Liverpool goal

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"When Van Dijk heads the ball forward, that's the moment when we have to make an offside judgment about Robertson and about what he's doing there."We know he doesn't touch the ball but what does he do? "The ball goes just over his head, and the ball finds the goal in the half of the six-yard box where he is.

"The player is so close to the goalkeeper, the ball's coming right towards him and he has to duck to get out of the way of the ball - and they form the conclusion that that impacts Donnarumma's ability just to dive towards the ball and make that save."And then, of course, once they've made that on-field decision, the job of the VAR is to look at that and decide, was the outcome of offside clearly and obviously wrong? I agree with you, the line of vision normally would relate to the view being blocked of the ball," he said."On that one, he does see the ball all the way, but the assistant also talks about other things, ducking below the ball, being close to the goalkeeper.

So, [apart from] the line of vision, there's other aspects that can also say that this is an offside offence, and that's why the VAR left it alone."Liverpool boss Arne Slot had made comparisons to a goal scored by Manchester City at Wolves last season, which was initially ruled out for a similar offside against Bernardo Silva but given through a VAR review."I think there's a clear difference here in that the ball goes directly over the goalkeeper Jose Sa's head," Webb explained. Importantly, he moved to the left, away from the flight of the ball, and the ball goes straight over Sa, it doesn't go over the head of Bernardo Silva in the way that it went over the head of Robertson, who ducked below it."So, I think it's difficult here to see this and think in any way that Jose Sa is impacted by an action of Bernardo Silva.