One of the things that bugs me about this is that from the moment Mac Allister made a ‘handball’, Liverpool were in a strange state where they could no longer score. Play hasn’t stopped and Liverpool are in possession but if this results in a goal then VAR will go back and disallow it. Yet at the same time, they were never going to stop play for the handball after it wasn’t given by the ref.
The best thing Liverpool could have done at the point would have been to give away possession or to kick the ball out because otherwise the players are in some weird limbo where play is still going, they’re possession but they can’t actually do anything.
One of the things that bugs me about this is that from the moment Mac Allister made a ‘handball’, Liverpool were in a strange state where they could no longer score. Play hasn’t stopped and Liverpool are in possession but if this results in a goal then VAR will go back and disallow it. Yet at the same time, they were never going to stop play for the handball after it wasn’t given by the ref.
The best thing Liverpool could have done at the point would have been to give away possession or to kick the ball out because otherwise the players are in some weird limbo where play is still going, they’re possession but they can’t actually do anything.