Går ud fra det er det annullerede mål du hentyder til, Dale Johnson udlægning af situationen :
VAR review: It´s a common misconception that a player cannot be offside if the ball is played backwards, because 99% of such situations come from the ball being played forward.
Yet the direction of the pass is irrelevant for offside, be it forwards, square or backwards. All that matters is the position of the attacking player relative to the second-to-last opponent or the ball.
If the attacker is in front of the second-to-last opponent, they must be behind the ball -- which is why Alexander Isak´s winning goal for Newcastle United against Tottenham Hotspur wasn´t disallowed. If Isak had been in front of the ball, he would have been offside, regardless of how the pass was played.
As Salah touched the ball before it ran to Alexander-Arnold, it´s an automatic offside offence. If he´d made no attempt to touch it, the goal would likely have stood because he had no direct impact upon an opponent.
Omkring evt straffespark til Gakpo :
What happened: Cody Gakpo went down on the edge of the area in the 89th minute in a tussle with Noussair Mazraoui, with Darwin Núñez then firing a shot over the bar. Referee Anthony Taylor signalled he had played advantage when the ball went out. The VAR checked for a possible penalty (watch here).
VAR decision: No penalty.
VAR review: Should advantage be played on a penalty situation, and why wasn´t it pulled back by the VAR if the referee had judged a foul but got the positioning wrong?
A referee should never play advantage on a penalty unless there is a very clear and immediate opportunity to score. So based on that, Taylor must have decided the foul contact was just outside the box.
It then becomes a question of protocol. If the referee identified a foul, but that foul was actually inside the area, shouldn´t the VAR be passing this information on?
Once Liverpool hadn´t made the most of the advantage, the VAR will not go back to assess a judgement the referee has already made.
It does beg the question what the VAR was actually checking. Perhaps Brooks wasn´t immediately aware that Taylor had signalled advantage, or it might have been the nature of the contact (unlikely but, for example, a possible red card) rather than it being a foul.
If the VAR did get involved, it could have created a situation whereby they had to award a penalty factually on position, but didn´t believe it was a foul (with Gakpo initiating contact). That would have meant sending Taylor to the monitor to overturn his subjective judgement of a foul, even though he never actually gave a spot kick in the first place. That´s like what happened in Brentford vs. Brighton last season, when the ref went to the screen but no spot kick was awarded as there was an attacking foul immediately before the defensive infringement.
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