Overview
- Referee Craig Pawson booked Diego Gomez late in the first half at Anfield, with VAR official Darren England checking the incident without recommending a pitch-side review.
- The Premier League Match Centre said the on-field yellow was upheld because the challenge was not judged to involve excessive force or serious foul play.
- Ex-PGMOL chief Keith Hackett said VAR should have intervened to upgrade the sanction, a view echoed by Tim Sherwood, Mike Dean and Chris Sutton.
- The caution was Gomez’s fifth of the season, triggering a one-match suspension that rules him out of Brighton’s next game against Sunderland.
- Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Brighton stood unaffected by the call, with Hugo Ekitike scoring both goals.