Lots of people talking about it not being a handball at all.

The ball does hit his chest first but that only applies for deflections not deliberate attempts to control the ball. He’s trying to control it with his chest and takes a bad touch. A bad touch doesn’t negate handball.

Clear handball but VAR shouldn’t be going back that far to call that.

If VAR wants to be used there have the VAR call it down right away

Really don’t like backing Liverpool and it was handball, but how far does var go back?!? Should’ve been goal.

Hate Liverpool, hate VAR stealing another brilliant moment for fans to enjoy. I can’t see how anyone can enjoy this.

Flashbacks to the rugby World Cup when they went back 4 phases to disallow a New Zealand try despite the official rules only allowing 2 phases.

I think it’s fine to pull something back after the play extends if the situation deserves it. This isn’t one of those, super borderline

Why can’t VAR be implemented like Rugby? They have it down to perfection

These are the type of decisions that the on-field ref has to call on the spot or ignore.

No one would complain if the ref made a call here and stuck to it.

Funny to contrast this with the Ayew goal against Spurs that they let stand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th9rGzvjQj0&ab\_channel=NBCSports

Robbed of a Darwin assist

This was soo far back

They cleared the ball

The ball touched about 7 players before it was in the net

Its not a handball

we played horrible but this just takes the fun out of the sport, our only 2 loses in the last 26 games were this and spurs game where both perfectly fine goals got disallowed

This is a much better clip than the other one that was posted.

Seeing all that takes it from “harsh handball” to wtaf?! Not the biggest fan of Liverpool, but that’s just stupid.

This literally goes against UEFAs own guidelines for handballs this season…

This made me realize I don’t know what constitutes the changing of a phase of play.

Does headed clearance like that constitute a new phase of play even if it doesn’t leave the box and goes straight to an opposing player? Or does a team need to have actual possession of the ball?

VAR can’t fix incompetence but it will make them stand out more.