Toulouse 3-2 Liverpool: Yet MORE VAR drama sees Reds denied late equaliser in France as Jurgen Klopp's side are stunned after abject performance as Luis Diaz starts on day his dad is released
Daily MailDiogo Jota loses his record of never losing for Liverpool when on the scoresheet UEFA’S promotional material around Stade de Toulouse hyped up the ‘road to Dublin’ and this trip across the Channel proved there will be plenty of unforeseen blocks and bumps in the journey if Liverpool are to get all the way to the Europa League final in Ireland’s capital. Alexis Mac Allister was adjudged to have handled the ball nearly a minute before Quansah poked the ball home and Liverpool fumed at the fact a new phase of play had started, meaning VAR should not have had the jurisdiction to look so far back in the move to rule out the goal. Aron Donnum opened the scoring for the hosts after a terrible mistake from Kostas Tsimikas Thijs Dallinga scored the second after having one ruled out for a foul to put the hosts on top Liverpool had the ball in the back of the net late on, but the equaliser was duly ruled out for a handball by Alexis Mac Allister in the final added minute Your browser does not support iframes. The Reds were handed a lifeline by Toulouse as a Cristian Casseres own goal made it 2-1 on 74 minutes But within two minutes Frank Magri - who had just come off the bench - restored the two-goal cushion Diogo Jota came off the bench to make it 3-2 and set up the grandstand finish with a fine solo effort Jarell Quansah thought he had secured a late, dramatic equaliser for the visitors before a VAR intervention The strike was ultimately chalked off for handball by Mac Allister to give Toulouse a memorable win Toulouse continued to cause problems and had a second disallowed goal on 66 minutes after Donnum poked home.