Slot says VAR has gone against Liverpool - is he right?

The VAR intervened in to tell the referee that the foul happened inside the area, which made it a penalty. It was one of those boot-on-boot challenges which referee Tim Robinson probably felt did not meet the threshold for a penalty. Yet it was not a clear and obvious error to give a foul, so a soft free-kick became a penalty by default.

Slot had a point. There is a difference with Tuesday's incident. Van Dijk was clearly making a tackle, whereas contact from Pacho seemed to be incidental rather than a challenge on an opponent.

Slot also referenced a penalty awarded to Leeds United at Elland Road. He suggested this had stayed with the on-field call but he must have misremembered - there was a VAR intervention to award the spot-kick after Ibrahima Konate brought down Wilfried Gnonto. You can understand why Slot might feel a little aggrieved.

Liverpool have, along with Brighton , conceded three VAR penalties in the Premier League this season - more than all other teams. As well as the spot-kicks conceded at Brentford and Leeds , goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili was penalised for bringing down Manchester City 's Jeremy Doku in November at the Etihad. Slot's side have conceded one spot-kick not given through VAR - in the reverse meeting with City when Matheus Nunes was bundled over by Alisson.