Tottenham snatched a debatable 2-1 win in opposition to nine-man Liverpool as Joel Matip‘s last-gasp own-goal ended the Reds’ resistance and the guests had a target disallowed that the referees’ frame admitted must have stood. Liverpool had Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota despatched off as Ange Postecoglou’s aspect shattered Liverpool’s unbeaten begin to the Premier League season and prolonged their very own because of the gripping climax in north London. Jones was once disregarded within the first 1/2 earlier than Luis Diaz‘s target for Liverpool was once incorrectly disallowed for offside through VAR.
Referees’ frame PGMOL next admitted “a significant human error”.
It mentioned in a remark: “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.”
Tottenham took the supremacy via Son Heung-min’s opener and Cody Gakpo equalised simply earlier than half-time, however Liverpool had been lowered to 9 when Jota noticed crimson next the pause.
It gave the impression Liverpool would keep out in opposition to the chances till Matip accidently diverted Pedro Porro’s go into his personal internet with simply seconds left.
Wrathful Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp mentioned: “I never saw a game like this with the most unfair circumstances, crazy decisions.
“The offside target. That’s not offside whilst you see it, they drew their strains mistaken.
“The first red card, Curtis steps on the ball and goes over. Not a bad tackle. For Jota, first yellow was not a yellow.”
Later a gloomy run of 1 win of their earlier 23 conferences with Liverpool in all competitions, Tottenham may just in the end savour an extraordinary good fortune in opposition to the Anfield outfit.
It was once Tottenham’s first win in opposition to Liverpool since 2017 when Spurs had been the usage of Wembley as their brief house.
Postecoglou’s males moved above Liverpool into 2d park, only one level in the back of Manchester Town next the champions’ awe loss at Wolves previous on Saturday.
Liverpool, overwhelmed for the primary presen in 9 video games in all competitions, are one level in the back of Tottenham in fourth park.
For Postecoglou, it was once an extremely candy good fortune next he grew up in Australia idolising mythical Liverpool boss Invoice Shankly as a formative years fan of the Reds’ superior Nineteen Seventies groups.
The previous Celtic boss has finished a notable task reviving Tottenham following their woeful marketing campaign below his predecessor Antonio Conte.
Past it’s too early to label Tottenham as name contenders, they’ve already overwhelmed Liverpool and Manchester United, in addition to drawing with Arsenal, to underline Postecoglou’s important have an effect on.
“We’re still a team in its infancy in terms of the way we want to play, the age and experience of the group,” Postecoglou mentioned.
“Particularly the manner in which it happened, it leaves the real impact and impression on everyone involved.
“We had to deal with an excellent few issues and display a unique aspect of our recreation. 2nd 1/2 I believed we had been in point of fact excellent.”
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Postecoglou’s latest memorable result was kick-started in the 26th minute when Jones’ raised boot caught Yves Bissouma on the ankle.
Referee Simon Hooper initially gave a yellow card but after being told to consult the pitchside monitor he upgraded the punishment to a red.
After Diaz was wrongly denied by the offside flag, Tottenham took the lead in the 36th minute.
James Maddison‘s sublime pass picked out Richarlison’s run down the left flank and the Brazilian’s cross was perfectly weighted for Son to flick home from close range.
In first half stoppage-time, Dominik Szoboszlai‘s cross was headed back across goal by Virgil van Dijk and Gakpo took a touch before firing a powerful shot past Guglielmo Vicario from 10 yards.
Jota was needlessly dismissed after 69 minutes for a sliding challenge on Destiny Udogie just 90 seconds after the Portugal forward was booked for clipping the same player.
Tottenham kept pushing in the face of Liverpool’s massed defence and finally got their reward six minutes into stoppage-time.
Porro’s low cross forced Matip to block but his out-stretched leg flicked the ball past Alisson to spark wild Tottenham celebrations.
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