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When there is a potential handball review with VAR, they look for the answers to these questions:
1. Did the ball hit the players arm / hand?
2. If yes, was it deliberate, OR was the players arm / hand in an unnatural position that made their body area larger?
Now, whilst 2. is still subjective (see the penalty awarded against Rose in the first leg), last nights was clear...
Llorente did not deliberately handle the ball, and his body was not in an unnatural position where his arm made his body area larger. The ball brushed his arm and then hit his hip which created the force to direct the ball into the goal. As such it was the correct decision, as backed up by every single referee commenting in the media today.
The offside goal was simply offside. Fact.
I think it will be a different story next season. IIRC all goals scored via hands will be disallowed, regardless of intent.