Mane and Salah set a C1 Cup record, fans mocked VAR in favor of Liverpool?

Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Villarreal at Anfield this morning (April 28, Vietnam time) helped “The Kop” put one foot in the Champions League final. However, Sadio Mane’s goal in this match is also a controversial topic.

Video of Sadio Mane’s controversial goal helps Liverpool won Villarreal 2-0 (Clip copyright belongs to FPT Play):

One day after Man City’s dramatic 4-3 victory over Real Madrid, another English team, Liverpool, also triumphed at home before a Spanish representative in the first leg of the semi-finals. Champions League (C1 Cup).

Early this morning (April 28, Vietnam time), at the “fire pan” of Anfield, “The Kop” overcame Villarreal with a score of 2-0 thanks to left-back Pervis Estupinan’s own goal in the 53rd minute and a shot. Sadio Mane’s gentle finish came out 2 minutes later.

Mane scores historic Champions League goal

Notably, the goal of goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli in the 55th minute brought Sadio Mane into history. Accordingly, the Senegalese striker of Liverpool has reached the milestone of 14 goals in the knockout rounds of the Champions League. Mane has just equaled the record of Chelsea legend Didier Drogba to share the position of the African goalscorer with the most goals in these knockout rounds.

According to Opta Joe’s statistics, the situation where Mohamed Salah poked a slot for Sadio Mane to hit Villarreal was the 7th time the duo combined to create a Champions League goal.

They have equaled the record for the most assists – scoring duo together for an English team in the No 1 arena of the old continent, equal to the achievement of the Wayne Rooney – Ryan Giggs (MU) pair and the Mohamed Salah pair – Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).

Meanwhile, coach Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool) has won all 4 home matches in the round Champions League semi-finalsequaling the records of seniors such as Marcelo Lippi and Ottmar Hitzfeld.

However, in the last match between Liverpool and Villarreal, Mane’s goal for the Anfield team in the 55th minute was controversial.

On social networks, many netizens believe that even when the VAR team (video assisting the referee) was involved, the two blue – red lines determine whether the “10” boundary of Liverpool is offside or not behind the line. Salah’s pass is also unclear.

Even many people thought that the VAR team and the referee Szymon Marciniak made a mistake when recognizing the goal for Mane.

City HQ account posted 2 photos of Raheem Sterling’s situation being caught offside and not being credited with a goal in Man City’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool in the 32nd round of the English Premier League and the situation where Mane scored early in the morning. Now with the same comment: “Sterling is offside in this phase, and Mane is not. Cool!”.

Another fan, nicknamed Tom Garratt, commented: “For me, this offside review is very suspicious.”

A fan complained for Sterling when the Man City midfielder was caught offside, while Mane and Liverpool were awarded goals

Paul Mundy’s account even wrote a tweet suspecting that UEFA had “arranged” for Liverpool to benefit in order to join Man City to create this year’s all-England Champions League final. This guy tweeted: “How is Mane not offside on that ball? Different rules have been applied to Liverpool. Perhaps I have begun to think about the prospect of an all-English final.”

Netizen Paul Mundy suspects Liverpool is favored by UEFA to reach the final against Man City

Another guy named Tom commented: “Surprised that VAR didn’t rule out Mane’s goal when he was offside. Does anyone not feel that the offside lines are not transparent?”

VAR’s line is not clear, causing many netizens to laugh at Mane and Liverpool for being biased