🚨VAR AND REFREE ERRORS : LIVERPOOL VS CHELSEA Jamie Carragher 📢 Liverpool thought they had another penalty 🥅 but were denied by VAR!❌

Premier League issue Liverpool vs Chelsea VAR penalty statement as Jamie Carragher disagrees

Chelsea news as pundits offer analysis of Liverpool penalty decisions in what proved to be a high-octane and incident-packed Premier League showdown at Anfield.

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Chelsea were fortunate to avoid conceding a second penalty against Liverpool

Jamie Carragher was surprised not to see Liverpool awarded a second penalty – in the first half against Chelsea – after referee Craig Pawson initially punished Rob Sanchez for a collision with Curtis Jones. After VAR review, the decision was overturned.

Jones, who had been front and centre of the game when Levi Colwill brought him down in the 18-yard box earlier on, this time got a shot away. It squirmed under Sanchez and Jones was sent tumbling.

Pawson was quick to point to the spot. VAR at Stockley Park checked the coming together and urged an on-field review. The decision was duly reversed.

However, Carragher reckons Enzo Maresca’s team were lucky to get away with it. “Chelsea are fortunate because the referee gave the penalty on the pitch,” he said on Sky Sports at half-time. “I think it’s one that goes either way, there’s definitely an angle where it’s not a penalty.

“This [angle facing Jones’ back] is one where you can see it getting overturned; it looks like a block tackle, and Jones goes flying over. This angle [side] I don’t think the goalkeeper gets enough of the ball.

“The days are well gone, 10 years ago, if you got a touch [to not be a foul]. Getting a touch then completely taking someone out is not enough in the modern game. I think Chelsea are fortunate.”