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Roma president James Pallotta blasted "embarrassing" decisions from Slovenian referee Damir Skomina after Liverpool progressed to the Champions League final at their expense.

The Reds survived a late scare to cling on for a 7-6 win on aggregate and set up a showdown with Real Madrid in Kiev on May 26.

However, American owner Pallotta said the manner in which Roma bowed out was "an absolute joke" and claimed the use of VAR technology would have sent the Serie A outfit through.

"It’s absolutely clear that VAR is needed in the Champions League because you just can’t let stuff like this go," Pallotta said.

"You can all look at it yourself on the film. (Edin Dzeko) potentially in the 49th minute wasn’t offside and he got taken down by the goalie.

"The 63rd minute was a handball (by Trent Alexander-Arnold) that was obvious to everybody in probably the world, except the few people on the pitch.

"The 67th minute (Patrik) Schick gets taken down in the box. I know it’s difficult to ref, but it’s really embarrassing when we lose on aggregate like that.

"By the way, it should have been red card (against Alexander-Arnold), which would have been 10 men in the 63rd minute.

"Again, Liverpool’s a great team - congratulations going forward. But if we don’t get VAR in Champions League stuff like this is an absolute joke."