Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has hit out at the VAR, following an incident involving Kostas Tsimikas during Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League defeat to Real Madrid.

With the game in its dying stages, the ball deflected on to Tsimikas’ hand after hitting his leg in the Liverpool box, but rather than allow play to continue, the VAR official called on the centre referee to come re-examine the incident on his screen.

The decision ticked Klopp off, and the German didn’t hesitate to slam the official for the decision.

“I am now not in the perfect mood to discuss general football issues but these two games now, last night, if the whole world agrees it’s not a penalty, and two guys think it is a penalty, then something is wrong.

“Tonight, I think that the VAR took the ref to the screen and asked him to watch it again, I don’t know exactly what he is doing there because it’s a clear deflection, it cannot deflect it from a closer range… so it’s a clear deflection for the VAR, so keep on going.

“Everybody again with a football brain thought it was not a penalty. I arrived there and talking to Carlo and he said, ‘It’s not a penalty, it’s deflected.’ I know but he was still sent to the screen, so there is something not 100 per cent right.

“In the end, it was not a penalty, it was not decisive, they gave the penalty last night [and] it was a bit more decisive… in the end it is not our problem tonight but in general I think it would be cool if VAR is there to make the right decisions not the wrong [ones].”