Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson expressed his frustration at VAR following their defeat to Spurs
Alisson Becker has described the inability to criticise decisions as feeling like a ‘prisoner’ following Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
Simon Hooper, with the assistance of Darren England and Dan Cook behind the technology, sent off Curtis Jones and ruled out Luis Diaz’s goal – which has since been acknowledged as the wrong decision.
The Reds finished the game in North London with nine men after Diogo Jota was also sent for an early bath for a second bookable offence.
Diaz’s first-half strike would’ve handed Liverpool the lead, with the ruling prompting outrage, however, Spurs skipper Heung-min Son put the hosts in front.
”My position is clear, everyone saw it,” the Brazilian shot-stopper said in an interview with ESPN.
“I don’t like talking about arbitration, nor can we talk about arbitration. Sometimes it feels like we are prisoners. When he opens his mouth, he is punished from all sides.
“We are human beings and we have to be outraged by this kind of thing. Yes, it’s the fan’s feeling. Our feeling too.”
Alisson played another important role for the Reds between the sticks as he made crucial saves from James Maddison and Son in both halves.
Cody Gakpo restored parity, despite the numerical disadvantage, four minutes into first-half stoppage time. Jota’s red card meant that Liverpool were forced to defend Spurs’ onslaught late on with nine men, eventually, their pressure paid off as Joel Matip unfortunately undone their hard work after inadvertently scoring an own-goal.
The Liverpool goalkeeper expressed his hopes that the mistakes “stop happening”, he continued: “A mistake that cost, cost the result of the game. Today could not have been totally different. Now we have to deal with this.
“We, internally, will deal with this. I hope these things stop happening internally too. I’ve always said that VAR is good, precisely for these unfair situations.
“Incredibly, these things continue to happen with something so simple, with something that is so objective. And the technology is there. Why don’t you use the technology that FIFA used in the World Cup?
”We saw it, yes, at halftime, but not with the intention of seeing the failure of the refereeing, but with the attitude of seeing what we did right in the game, which was a great move of ours, worked towards what we could play it in the second half and we have no line at all,” Alisson added.
“We came back to play the second half and, unfortunately, there was another expulsion, which is also worth mentioning. This game has a lot of topics regarding refereeing, I think it’s up to you to talk a lot.
“You have to talk, because this kind of thing is very frustrating. Very frustrating.”
