Chelsea defender Thiago Silva has fired shots towards Liverpool with his short response to their last two VAR decisions in different competitions against the Blues and most recently West Ham.
Silva, 37, put in another masterclass of a performance in the west London club's 4-1 win in Lancashire against Sean Dyche's Burnley with the Brazilian making an important first half block from Wout Weghorst.
"Good. He is good. He is so professional. The dressing rooms are not so big here – which is not a problem – but you're in there for an hour and 15 minutes after 40 hours together so close, you see that even today, even if I know him after Paris, the focus and how professional he prepares for every single game," manager Thomas Tuchel said on Chelsea's number 6 in his post-match press conference at Turf Moor.
"That's why he can perform like this. In a match that has so many long balls, so many second balls where you rely on the quality of your first touch, so many times where if you win a ball in the air, you have to think it lands or does it come back again in a second wave, or does it stay with you?
"If you have the technical ability it makes a huge difference and that is what he does. It is very impressive but I can tell you he works very, very hard and on top of it he is a fantastic person and a big character in the dressing room."
Shortly after proceedings came to an end up north, Liverpool kicked off their second game since the dramatic Carabao Cup final win last weekend and VAR was called upon once more to aid the Reds in their efforts of overcoming David Moyes' side.
A Trent Alexander-Arnold cross in from the right was pounced upon by Sadio Mane and in similar circumstances to what Romelu Lukaku found himself in at Wembley, it look destined that the Merseysiders' opening goal was to be chalked off.
However, VAR on this occasion, unlike what they decided with Lukaku's situation, kept the on field call and Klopp's men were 1-0 up midway through the first half.
It was a lead they were able to hold on to throughout the rest of the game and amid calls of 'LiVARpool' coming into the equation again by the Chelsea faithful, Silva himself has had a say on what he thinks of the last two aforementioned VAR decisions that have seen the current second placed Premier League side lift the Carabao Cup and keep tabs with Man City in the Premier League title race.
On his Instagram account @thiagosilva, the defender in question liked a post showing the Lukaku and Mane situations side to side with the caption 'one was disallowed and the other one was allowed. It makes no sense!'
As well as liking the post, the ex-Paris Saint-Germain icon commented simply with three emojis that summed up his overriding feelings to the debate and it's unsurprising to see him side with the Blues faithful on this matter.
His comment of three laughing emojis seemingly suggests how Chelsea players are feeling in relation to Liverpool's supposed VAR fortunes.
