Monday’s news brought the continued fallout from the defeat at Man City, including the club reaching out to the PGMOL over Virgil van Dijk‘s disallowed goal.
Today’s Main LFC Headline
Liverpool have contracted the PGMOL to “raise serious concerns” about Van Dijk’s disallowed goal on Sunday, informing them that they do not accept the decision was made for subjective reasons.
It is the Reds’ belief that no elements of the law needed to rule the goal out were met.
And as per the Athletic, the club’s view “is that the usual checks and balances that are central to the VAR process did not take place, and they believe a different outcome may have been reached.”
The linesman raised the flag for Andy Robertson‘s involvement – or lack thereof – and VAR Michael Oliver confirmed the decision, with no advisement for Chris Kavanagh to watch on the pitch-side monitor.
Liverpool fans could point to a similar incident being asked for a review when Wataru Endo was adjudged to have interfered from an offside position in the 2024 League Cup final, that too went against Van Dijk.
It is obviously too hard to ask for consistency.
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Today’s Liverpool FC News
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Wednesday, September 17, 2025: Liverpool's Conor Bradley reacts during the UEFA Champions League match between Liverpool FC and Atletico Madrid FC at Anfield. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
• Conor Bradley is one yellow card away from a suspension in the Premier League AND Champions League – far from ideal with Jeremie Frimpong still recovering from a hamstring injury
• If we told you Liverpool had lost 40% of their matches since we were knocked out by PSG last season, would you believe us? Well, unfortunately, it’s true
• Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann has been rather blunt in how Liverpool can help Florian Wirtz and you won’t disagree – it involves his teammates scoring more from his chances!
• Liverpool have issued a complaint to the BBC over their use of former newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie on the subject of journalistic standards – the BBC should be ashamed (The Athletic)
• Liverpool Women secured their first league point of the season on Sunday, excruciatingly missing out on all three points by conceding a goal with the clock reading 90+3′
More from This Is Anfield
Slot has spoken endlessly about how the opposition sets up to defeat his side, but what Liverpool are lacking across the board is physicality, which Joanna Durkan has highlighted:
“Liverpool have lost four successive away games in the league for the first time since 2012, and won the duel count in only one of those fixtures.
“It was against Brentford that they narrowly won the count (63-59), but otherwise Liverpool have allowed home teams to bully them and prey on their vulnerabilities.
“Crystal Palace (48-45), Chelsea (41-32) and City (49-31) all had the upper hand on Slot’s men in the physical contest, and all scored first to leave Slot desperate for a solution.”
READ: Bullied by City: Liverpool’s weakness isn’t long balls, it’s physicality
Elsewhere in the football world today
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Wednesday, October 29, 2025: Crystal Palace's captain Marc Guéhi during the Football League Cup 4th Round match between Liverpool FC and Crystal Palace FC at Anfield. Palace won 3-0. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
• Crystal Palace were concerned Marc Guehi had suffered a fracture in his foot, but it has been confirmed as a bone bruise – they’re hopeful he’ll be back soon after the break (CPFC)
• Luis Diaz scored again for Bayern Munich on Saturday, taking his season’s tally to 11 in 17 appearances – he’s not taken long at all to settle in Germany!
• Did anyone see the Canadian Premier League final played in a blizzard – and the incredible bicycle kick? The entirety of this country would grind to a halt if we saw anything of the kind
• **Alexis Mac Allister**‘s brother, Kevin, will be joining him on international duty this month after his first call-up to the Argentina squad
Liverpool FC: On this day
Gerard Houllier (right), who has joined Liverpool Manager Roy Evans, to form a managerial partnership at Anfield, today (Thursday). See PA Story SOCCER Liverpool. PA Photos
On this day in 1998, Roy Evans took charge, jointly, of his last ever game as Liverpool manager.
He did not sign off in the manner he would have hoped, with Liverpool beaten 3-1 at Anfield by Tottenham in the League Cup
Steffen Iversen, ex-red John Scales and Allan Nielsen scored the goals for the visitors, while Michael Owen netted Liverpool’s late consolation.
Evans and Gerard Houllier’s joint tenure lasted 18 games across four months after the former had overseen the club on his own across four-and-a-half years.
It was described as an “impossible situation,” with Evans explaining in 2020: “When you start talking about team selection and one of you wants to pick this player and the other wants to pick another player then it causes problems.
“I would pick one team and Gerard would pick another. Someone has to have the final say. That is where it fell down.”