Furious David Moyes insists Liverpool's winner against Everton should have been RULED OUT

Both David Moyes and Arne Slot bemoaned refereeing determination connected Wednesday nighttime aft Liverpool's 1-0 triumph implicit Everton in the Merseyside derby.

Furious Moyes claimed Diogo Jota's victor should person been ruled retired for a 'clear offside' by VAR, portion Slot was frustrated by James Tarkowski escaping a reddish paper for a fearfulness challenge.

Liverpool tightened their grip connected apical spot successful the Premier League with a immense triumph connected Wednesday night, extending their pb to 12 points aft Arsenal's 2-1 triumph implicit Fulham connected Tuesday.

The Toffees frustrated their bitter rivals successful the archetypal fractional with a dogged antiaircraft show and could person gone successful up astatine the interruption had Beto not rifled his glorious accidental against the woodwork aft shaking disconnected Virgil van Dijk connected the antagonistic attack.

Liverpool edged successful beforehand conscionable earlier the hr people acknowledgment to Jota, who slalomed done a oversea of Everton shirts successful the punishment container earlier firing an effort past Jordan Pickford successful the Toffees net.

Jota received possession aft Everton defender James Tarkowski intercepted the shot connected the borderline of the country and passed it abbreviated towards team-mate James Garner, attempting to support it distant from Liverpool's Luis Diaz who was coming backmost towards play from an offside position.

However, arsenic Diaz had not made a wide question oregon motion towards the ball, officials deemed that the Colombian had not inferred with play and that Tarkowski's walk was not made arsenic a effect of the forward's offside position.

Moyes was furious with the decision, which yet outgo Everton a constituent astatine Anfield, and vented his choler during a post-match interrogation with Sky Sports.

'There's an offside extremity which they get and that was the quality tonight,' Moyes told the interviewer reluctantly.

Asked to elaborate, helium added: 'I deliberation the subordinate down Tarkowski (Diaz) interferes with him. I deliberation it's a wide offside, a precise casual determination to springiness and I can't recognize immoderate crushed wherefore that wouldn't person been fixed arsenic offside. None astatine all.'

Speaking to the media aft the match, the Scotsman said: 'He is offside, yeah. I person not sought an mentation but I person said I americium disappointed. 

'It is rather an casual 1 to give. Diaz comes from behind. I don’t deliberation galore managers deliberation they travel present and get affirmative decisions astatine Anfield. But I deliberation it was rather easy. He was on the enactment and it is truly casual to springiness offside. I wasn’t definite however bully the linesmen did their jobs. There were aboriginal flags, precocious flags.’

According to the Premier League's offside regulations, a subordinate warrants being penalised by the referee if they:

• Prevent an hostile from playing oregon being capable to play the shot by intelligibly obstructing their enactment of vision
• Challenge an hostile for the ball
• Clearly effort to play a shot which is adjacent erstwhile the enactment impacts an opponent
• Make an evident enactment which intelligibly impacts connected the quality of an hostile to play the ball 

Reflecting connected the game's rules, erstwhile Liverpool prima Jamie Carragher said: 'Tarkowski astir apt doesn't spell to crushed if Diaz isn't there. He astir apt conscionable clears the shot up the pitch.

'But the information Luis Diaz doesn't marque immoderate question towards the ball, erstwhile you look astatine the rules determination was nary mode this was ever going to beryllium overturned. 

'When you spell done the rules, that tells you it isn't a foul due to the fact that he's not successful an offside position. Tarkowski is good alert that he's determination and makes a play to sound it into Garner. It's superb from Jota and astir apt the lone large accidental Liverpool had successful the game, surely until that stage.

'There was thing akin I deliberation with Liverpool and Harry Kane a fewer seasons ago, and I deliberation Tottenham got the extremity that day. 

'I deliberation that's a extremity erstwhile you spell done the rulebook, but I really deliberation it's unfair connected defenders erstwhile a transverse comes successful and you spot a defender lunging for it, oregon erstwhile they spell for the shot astatine afloat agelong due to the fact that an attacker is determination and they don't marque an effort for the ball. 

'I deliberation that's precise unfair, but that 1 (Jota) is simply a small spot antithetic due to the fact that Tarkowski isn't successful a wholly unusual presumption oregon anything, he's inactive trying to play that shot into Garner.

'It's 1 of those wherever if it goes against you, you're frustrated. But I deliberation successful the main, astir radical would privation that arsenic a goal.'

Slot was besides near disappointed by the officiating aft the match, aggrieved that Tarkowski had not been shown a reddish paper by VAR pursuing a nasty, precocious situation connected Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister.

Everton's stand-in skipper cleared the shot successful the 11th infinitesimal but launched disconnected the crushed and clattered into Mac Allister with his follow-through, to which Slot said: ‘Even radical who bash not similar Liverpool a batch are saying however wide and evident (a reddish card) it was.'

Carragher, amazed that it was lone awarded with a yellowish paper by Samuel Barrott and VAR Paul Tierney, said connected Sky Sports: ‘It’s a shocking tackle, it should beryllium a reddish card.’

Meanwhile, chap pundit and ex-Everton guardant Duncan Ferguson said the situation ‘could person been a limb breaker’.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville added: ‘He’s precise lucky. Trust maine arsenic a defender, you bash not request to travel done similar that.’ 

With the 1-0 victory, Liverpool puts down them a tricky play that saw them suffer the Carabao Cup last to Newcastle and besides autumn retired of the Champions League astatine the hands of Paris Saint-Germain.

Speaking aft the win, Slot added: ‘(Everton have) a precise bully manager who has brought them backmost to life. The magnitude of shots they blocked, the effort they enactment in. 

'Our boys showed immense character, we created much than we did successful the distant game. We scored a bully goal.

‘I similar overmuch much what I saw present than the distant game. I could consciousness we were getting closer. 

'They hardly ever concede a extremity due to the fact that they enactment truthful galore players astir the 18-yard box. We knew if we wanted to triumph the crippled we had to support a cleanable sheet.’

As for match-winner Jota, Slot said: ‘Very pleased, helium was adjacent already successful the archetypal half. Defensively they are an incredibly beardown team. Now helium recovered conscionable a spot of abstraction and helium scored the goal, which was bully for him but bully for us, the team-mates the unit and the fans.’