Despite losing 4-1 against Liverpool, Rio Ferdinand maintains that Chelsea should have had two penalty kicks: “How could VAR have missed that?” The outcome of the game may have been altered by those penalties.

Despite Chelsea’s 4-1 loss to Liverpool on Wednesday, Rio Ferdinand maintains the video assistant referees were incorrect to award two penalties that would have changed the course of the game.

After Wednesday’s thrashing at Anfield by Jurgen Klopp’s squad, Mauricio Pochettino conceded that Chelsea were the superior team.

But according to Ferdinand, those two penalty attempts may have altered the course of the game for Chelsea in the Premier League match, and they were both turned down. ‘

In the first minute, Chelsea player Conor Gallagher was sent crashing to the ground inside the penalty area as Virgil van Dijk leaned into him. Virtual assistant referee Paul Tierney signaled for play to proceed, and the officials denied any allegations of a penalty.

In the second incident, as well, Van Dijk was pivotal after he clipped Christopher Nkunku inside the penalty area. Following a second assessment, referee John Brooks opted not to give the Blues a penalty.

On the second instance, Ally McCoist asked, “Has van Dijk kicked through him?” during the commentary. Oh my goodness, he does!

“That’s a penalty,” I’ll tell you; he does. His use of his right leg to tackle him seems like a penalty to me. The penalty is all day long, as you can see from Van Dijk’s contact. There is no question that he manages to catch his right leg.

After the game, Ferdinand expressed his disbelief that VAR missed the penalty and did not award the points. In such cases, VAR is designed to be useful.

Their failure to see those two occurrences as penalties for Chelsea is perplexing.

I still believe Chelsea were down in the dumps today, but those penalties might have decided the game.

Pochettino stated, “Of course we were seeing it on the iPad and we were thinking it could be a penalty” when questioned about his thoughts on the matter following the game. Even if we were the victims of terrible luck, we still think Liverpool were the superior team.