Liverpool reportedly plan to appeal Curtis Jones's red card in their controversial 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
The Reds midfielder was banished from the field in the first half at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a crunching tackle on Yves Bissouma as both men challenged for the ball.
As Jones stuck a leg in, his foot rolled over the ball and caught the top of Bissouma's ankle with his studs showing, although referee Simon Hooper gave the 22-year-old a booking before VAR official Darren England intervened.
Following a check of the monitor, Hooper upgraded Jones's punishment to a straight red card, which would also see the Englishman serve a three-match domestic suspension against Brighton & Hove Albion, Everton and Nottingham Forest.
Liverpool head coach Jurgen Klopp was critical of the decision to send Jones off, claiming that the slow-motion replays made the challenge look worse than it actually was, telling the press: "Probably everybody here in the room thinks it's a clear red card, I see that different, just because I played football and most of you probably didn't.
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"Full power on the ball, rolls over the ball, then hits the decisive part of the leg. When you see it in slow motion it looks horrendous. I think when you see it in real time it's not even close to being that bad. Curtis didn't do it not even close to being on purpose. The game is in real time but we judge it in slow motion – that makes now not too much sense."
According to The Athletic, Liverpool will lodge an appeal over Jones's red card and imminent three-game ban, and the Reds are hopeful that they will get the 22-year-old off the hook.
A surviving member of Liverpool's summer midfield overhaul, Jones has been a regular fixture in the Reds' XI so far this season, making four Premier League starts and captaining his boyhood team in the EFL Cup against Leicester City last week.
Jones's contentious red card was just the tip of the iceberg as far as officiating controversy went on Saturday, as Liverpool's unbeaten start to the season came to an end thanks to Son Heung-min's opener and Joel Matip's last-gasp own goal.
Following Jones's red card, Luis Diaz fired home across goal for Liverpool, but the offside flag went up, and play resumed from a Tottenham free kick despite replays showing that Cristian Romero had played the Colombian onside.
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The PGMOL acknowledged that a "significant human error" had occurred in that moment, where England allegedly believed that Diaz's goal had been awarded and therefore only conducted a quick VAR check, having spotted that the attacker was indeed onside.
Cody Gakpo still managed to draw the 10-man Reds level, but after coming off injured at the break, his replacement Diogo Jota was also sent off for two yellow card-worthy tackles on Destiny Udogie, and Klopp's nine men held out until Matip deflected Pedro Porro's cross into his own net.
Following the PGMOL's admission, Liverpool stated that they would explore a range of options after the officials' "unacceptable" error over Diaz's goal, but Alexis Mac Allister could now be in trouble with the FA.
The Argentine - whose red card against Bournemouth earlier this season was overturned on appeal - suggested that referee Hooper was a 12th man for Tottenham in a social media comment, and a separate report has stated that he could face a charge of questioning the integrity of the official.
Meanwhile, Tottenham left-back Udogie was the victim of despicable racist abuse online after the game, which the North London club condemned in a statement on Monday.
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