Exasperated Wolves captain Conor Coady declared VAR is not working after his side were on the wrong end of two decisions in a 1-0 Premier League defeat to Liverpool at Anfield.
Sadio Mane s decisive goal in the first half was ultimately awarded following a VAR review, with referee Anthony Taylor having initially penalised Adam Lallana for handball in the build-up.
However, Wolves, who had a goal of their own disallowed for offside shortly after Mane s strike, were adamant Virgil van Dijk had got away with a handball of his own before lofting a pass forward to Lallana.
Decisions are killing us, it s constantly against us, Coady, who also felt Wolves were hard done by in their 3-2 win over Manchester City on Friday, told Sky Sports. It s ridiculous. People talk about VAR but they don t ask us [the players] about the situation. For me, it s not working.
I speak to Anthony Taylor during the game. He s a great fella to speak to, he really is, he s fine to speak to. But you ask him questions and you don t really get an answer.
We thought Van Dijk had handballed it as well in the lead-up to the goal. That s what we thought. Then he [Taylor] tells me that Van Dijk is too far away. I can t get my head around it. Van Dijk plays the pass for the goal.
He s a fantastic player, an unbelievable player and it s a brilliant pass, but, by the sounds of it, he handballed it. So I don t know where we re going wrong and what the confusion is, but for me it s not good, because that s twice on the spin now – against Liverpool and Manchester City, the two best teams on the planet.
Defeated but by no means disgraced. s men edged out at Anfield by what is an exceptional side.
All eyes now turn to Vicarage Road on New Year s Day.
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Asked how VAR is affecting the game, Coady added: The crowd don t like it. No one likes it. No one asks the players about it. They came in and did a presentation at the start of the season and told us what was going to happen, but it s still confusing, you still don t get your head around it.
You don t get answers on the pitch, they ll tell you we are checking for a penalty, we re checking for a handball, we re checking for offside. Ok, so who is offside? [They say] we don t know. So how far offside? [They say] we don t know.
Referencing Pedro Neto s goal for Wolves that was disallowed when VAR adjudged Jonny Castro Otto to be offside in the build-up, Coady added: I ve just heard it s an armpit or something again, is it? Armpits are becoming quite the rage in the Premier League at the minute.
