Liverpool's Slot: 'Obvious and clear' VAR wrong on Van Dijk

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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot said it is "obvious and clear" that Virgil van Dijk's goal should not have been ruled out in his team's 3-0 defeat to Manchester City.

The Liverpool defender thought he had equalised with a header late in the first half, before the linesman deemed the offside Andy Robertson to have blocked the vision of Gianluigi Donnarumma, with VAR ruling Robertson had made an "obvious action" in front of the goalkeeper.

Slot later claimed that the decision was incorrect, but admitted that it was not the reason Liverpool lost the game.

"It is difficult to give my view," Slot said after the match. "It is obvious and clear that the wrong decision has been made,…