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Liverpool vs Benfica vs offside

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He ruled 2 goals offside that VAR later showed to be onside => issue is they were at least a yard or 2 onside, certainly not hairline .. interesting debrief I imagine
 
Yeah I found them. Pretty good examples why the delayed flag exists.

Long ball with an attacker offside in relation to a nearby defender but kept on by a further away defender. Extremely tough calls to get consistently correct.

Looks like there were three or four other tight decisions involving goals that they got correct earlier in the match.
 
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I think there were also other goals that were very tight non-offside and got correct.
 
They were difficult ones but it was torture for the Benfica strikers who kept putting the ball in the net - and then no one could trust the AR’s decision.

Two things for me: Liverpool’s high line creates a lot of these situations that are challenging for the ARs. Also the late/no flag contributes to the general unease and mistrust of officials.

Here, VAR did its job and rescued the officials - though ironically we would have ended up with the same amount of goals and sane result if we had stuck with the on field decisions;)
 
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