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Liverpool fall into bottom half as Forest pile on more misery

Liverpool fell to a sixth Premier League loss in their last seven games as Nottingham Forest romped to a deserved 3-0 victory at Anfield - but it was not without its share of controversy.

A fortnight after VAR had intervened to rule out Virgil Van Dijk's equaliser against Manchester City, scored under similar circumstances, the technology failed to act when Murillo struck past Alisson with Dan Ndoye stood in an offside position.

The Premier League's match centre said "Ndoye was not in the line of vision of Alisson", despite being stood in front of him. Forest could and probably should have been two ahead when Igor Jesus volleyed into the far corner moments later, but on-field referee Andy Madley had spotted a debatable handball - a decision ratified by VAR.

"I am astounded this has been ruled out," said Michael Dawson on Soccer Saturday.

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The Soccer Saturday team react to Igor Jesus' disallowed goal against Liverpool.

It looked like Liverpool had survived the scare, but 39 seconds into the second half the situation worsened, with the only point of contention concerning how poor the defending was. Neco Williams skipped over a couple of half-hearted challenges before Nicolo Savona hammered home to make it 2-0.

The visitors signed off by adding a third via Morgan Gibbs-White, teed up wonderfully by Omari Hutchinson, who ghosted by Andy Robertson as if he was not there. The reigning champions drop into the bottom half of the table as a result, while Forest rise out of the relegation zone after back-to-back wins under new boss Sean Dyche.

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