{"id":291928,"date":"2023-09-30T23:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=291928"},"modified":"2023-09-30T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:34:30","slug":"alexis-mac-allister-claims-tottenham-beat-liverpool-with-12-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/alexis-mac-allister-claims-tottenham-beat-liverpool-with-12-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Mac Allister claims Tottenham beat Liverpool with '12 men'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alexis Mac Allister was involved in a disagreement with international team-mate Cristian Romero on Instagram following Tottenham’s controversial victory over Liverpool.<\/p>\n
Tottenham won 2-1, with Joel Matip scoring a late own goal, while Liverpool ended the game with nine men following the dismissals of Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota.<\/p>\n
Liverpool received an apology from PGMOL after the game, who admitted that Luis Diaz’s goal was wrongly ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n
A statement from PGMOL admitted that a ‘significant human error’ had occurred when making the decision.<\/p>\n
Following the game Romero wrote on Instagram: ‘This team has great spirit, great heart. always like this, all together.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Alexis Mac Allister claimed that Tottenham needed 12 men to overcome Liverpool<\/p>\n
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Cristian Romero responded to Mac Allister’s comments, telling him to ‘cry at home’<\/p>\n
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Mac Allister responded by suggesting that Tottenham were helped by the officials. He wrote:\u00a0‘Normal when you have 12 players.’<\/p>\n
Romero subsequently responded:\u00a0‘Cry at home’<\/p>\n
Mac Allister and Romero are team-mates at international level for Argentina and were part of the squad that won the World Cup last year, but they were up against each other on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Romero played the whole game as he helped Tottenham to prevail, while Mac Allister played 80 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The statement from PGMOL regarding the decision to rule out Diaz’s goal read:\u00a0‘PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The goal but Luis Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.<\/p>\n
‘PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.<\/p>\n
‘PGMOL will immediately be contacting Liverpool at the conclusion of the fixture to acknowledge the error.’<\/p>\n
It has since been revealed that the mistake came after VAR official Darren England thought that the on-field decision had been to give Diaz the goal.<\/p>\n
He told referee Simon Hooper ‘check complete’ and therefore the decision to disallow the goal stood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Mac Allister and Romero are team-mates at international level for Argentina<\/p>\n