{"id":461303,"date":"2023-10-01T05:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461303"},"modified":"2023-10-01T05:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:46:31","slug":"luiz-diazs-goal-disallowed-due-to-var-referee-thinking-it-was-given","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/luiz-diazs-goal-disallowed-due-to-var-referee-thinking-it-was-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Luiz Diaz&#8217;s goal disallowed due to VAR referee thinking it was given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luiz Diaz was infamously denied an opening goal in a heated 2-1 loss against Tottenham Hotspur, despite footages clearly showing Colombian being in an onside position.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Simon Hooper &amp; Darren England are equal responsible for the last night robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Sack them both for their corrupt decisions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xa1A4jVnyt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xa1A4jVnyt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rizwan Afghan \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddeb (@RizwanLiverpool) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RizwanLiverpool\/status\/1708356249257988211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision has caused major uproar in the footballing world and the match referees have been severely criticized.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has now been revealed what really happened as VAR referee Darren England has spoken out. According to him, the assistant referees thought the goal had been given and after a video check told match official Simon Hooper to stick to his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Many were left baffled after the quick check, but that is because England thought that Diaz was clearly onside, thinking that Hooper&#8217;s on-field decision had been a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham then took a free-kick for offside, which at that point &#8211; when the error would have been noticed &#8211; it is said to be too late to pull play back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luiz Diaz was infamously denied an opening goal in a heated 2-1 loss against Tottenham Hotspur, despite footages clearly showing Colombian being in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":461304,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16722],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17887,21594],"acf":{"announce":"A shocking miscommunication has led to the Reds being on the receiving end of a poor decision","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461305,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461303\/revisions\/461305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461303"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461303"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}