Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has questioned the Video Assistant Referee's (VAR) decision in allowing Chelsea's equaliser to stand, claiming the awarding of the free-kick in the buildup to be rather harsh.
He also believed that Ross Barkley and Alvaro Morata were in offside positions when the set-piece was cashed in.
As Liverpool led through Daniel Sturridge's second-half goal, Emerson Palmieri latched on a rebound off a free kick to pull Chelsea level. VAR was used to check the legitimacy of the goal, and Klopp felt the assistants didn't do a very good job.
"Both discussable," he said at his post-match news conference, as quoted by ESPN.
"I don't think it's a foul. He plays the ball and then he touched afterwards, but things like that happen. We constantly touch each other with feet, with arms and stuff like that. Not all of that is a foul. It's a clear ball and the linesman wanted to give a throw-in. That's it's a foul and then a yellow card is always strange."
"You have two players that are clearly offside and they block. Not to forget, they don't touch the ball. They block players, my players. That means a big impact in the situation. Then the other one, Barkley makes the header and, for me, is offside as well -- not much. But I don't expect that the ref would see that."
"Then you have the VAR and then you have a look and it's close. Why do you use it if you don't want to make the decision then? That's all. It was clear. I don't feel bad, it was only unlucky. You have a free kick that was maybe no free kick. I think in a lot of situations nobody whistles it."
"And the other one, maybe in the future when you use VAR then you say: 'OK, that's offside'. I don't expect using in situations like this, the VAR, to be honest. But if you use it, make a decision."
After Emerson's leveller, substitute, Eden Hazard, scored a wonder-goal in the 85th-minute to knock Liverpool out of the Carabao Cup.
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