In the immediate aftermath of the match, Klopp called for the game to be replayed and his strong feelings towards VAR do not appear to have faded. “All the people involved – on-field ref, linesman, fourth official and especially now in this case VAR – they didn’t do that on purpose,” Klopp said. “We shouldn’t forget that. It was an obvious mistake and I think there would have been solutions for it afterwards.

“If not, I can say immediately, and probably some people don’t want me to say it, not as the manager of Liverpool but much more as a football person, I think the only outcome should be a replay. That’s how it is. It probably will not happen. The argument against that will probably be if you open that gate then everybody will ask for it. I think the situation is that unprecedented that a replay would be the right thing.

“In this specific game, what makes it a bit more special is that we conceded two minutes after we scored a regular goal. How all things depend on each other, if the other goal would have counted we would have started in the centre of the pitch and not where it started. It would have been different. That’s my view on it.”