New image shows Marcus Rashford was offside against Liverpool - New rule has fans outraged

A new image has revealed that Marcus Rashford's goal against Liverpool last night should have been given offside.

The Reds succumbed to a rare energetic and forceful Manchester United performance losing 2-1 on the night following goals from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford.

Rashford's goal has come into question online, however, with new images showing the new rule in place for VAR.

Liverpool may be aggrieved over their levels of performance last night and can be somewhat annoyed with the decision, but can have no issues over the new ruling.

Was Rashford offside?

There was a question of Rashford being ahead of the last defender, Joe Gomez, when the ball was played.

At first look, it was a really close call but according to the new 'tolerance level' added to VAR last summer - Rashford is allowed to be onside.

In Rashford's case, the goal only stood because of a change in the way VAR offside has operated, brought in 12 months ago.

The current VAR offside system has several flaws; the new system brought in before EURO 2020 was to give attackers the benefit of the doubt.

This is done by manually plotting points on the body of the attacker and defender.

If the two lines touch, it's too close to call and the attacker should be given onside.

This was brought in to remove offside calls that were a 'toenail' offside.

A Liverpool example would be the Jordan Henderson goal against Everton in the 2020/21 season, which saw Sadio Mane 'offside' in the build-up that would be onside now.

Attackers are given the benefit of the doubt nowadays which is measured by giving 5cm back to the attacking player, meaning they can be just in front of the defender but the goal will stand due to the possible inaccuracies in the system.

Normally, the offside image shows both lines (attacker and defender) but when a player is onside due to the new tolerance level the computer automatically only displays the line to the defender - which in the Premier League is green to make it clearer that a goal is good.

The line isn't displayed to both players (in any league) because they would sit on top of each other.

Rashford was marginally offside, but onside due to this 'benefit of the doubt'.