In the aftermath of Liverpool’s 3-2 away defeat against Toulouse in the Europa League, during his post-match press conference, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp commented on Jarrel Quansah’s disallowed goal in stoppage time which saw his team leave with no points rather than a solitary point. VAR adjudged Alexis Mac Allister to have handballed in the build-up into what would have been Jarrel Quansah’s first Liverpool goal.
When asked about the decision to rule the goal out, the German head coach said: 'I only saw the video back now and for me it's not a handball, but how can I decide that? The ball goes to the chest and then I don't see a contact with the arm, to be honest.
'Maybe they had a different picture than I had. It was pretty long ago before we scored the goal and I thought, 'Where is the free-kick?' I didn't see it properly but I heard there could have been a penalty for us in another situation, I don't know.
'Actually, I am a bit more concerned about [the fact that] I would have loved us to have played better, to be honest. That's my main issue tonight. In a football way more aggressive.
'It was well deserved to lose because they won pretty much all the decisive challenges, battles. We have too many situations where we should have won the ball but we didn't.
'On top of that we gave the ball away easily at least twice - one was a goal, the other I am not sure if it was an allowed goal or a disallowed goal. Counter-attack, third goal, last line too deep. Defending-wise it was just not good enough.
When you concede three goals then you need to score a lot of goals to still win it and obviously it nearly happened that we got a point here. That wouldn't have made the game better, but it would have felt better in the table.
'But that's it now, so we have to accept it. As I said, well deserved.'
Toulouse’s victory against the Reds is now the fifth successive match that Liverpool have failed to win on French soil. Toulouse now sit two points behind Liverpool in first in Group E of the Europa League.