{"id":893920,"date":"2026-09-16T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893920\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:24:13","slug":"man-city-news-conference-maresca-set-to-speak-ahead-of-norwich-efl-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893920\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City news conference: Maresca set to speak ahead of Norwich EFL Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refereeing body admits judgement error over Haaland derby winnerpublished at 10:04 BST<\/p>\n

10:04 BST<\/p>\n

Man City v Norwich (Thurs, 19:30 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Manchester City<\/a><\/p>\n

The Premier League refereeing body Pro Ref has admitted an “error of judgement” in awarding Erling Haaland’s Manchester City<\/a> winner against Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As City celebrated a remarkable derby victory over Manchester United<\/a>, there were questions as to whether Haaland’s winning goal should have stood in a match fraught with controversy.<\/p>\n

The striker scored in the 60th minute at Old Trafford, turning home at the back post from Josko Gvardiol’s cross before it was disallowed on the field for offside.<\/p>\n

Following intervention from the video assistant referee, the goal was awarded – the Norwegian ruled to have been played onside by Patrick Dorgu’s boot.<\/p>\n

But there was debate as to whether the offside Enzo Fernandez, diving at the ball in a more central position than Haaland, was interfering with play.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Pro Ref said: “It was established that Enzo Fernandez did not play the ball and therefore that makes any offside offence subjective.<\/p>\n

“However, on this occasion, the VAR did not recognise the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on-field review.<\/p>\n

“Contact has been made with Manchester United<\/a> this evening to acknowledge what we deem is an error of judgement. A review of the incident will take place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refereeing body admits judgement error over Haaland derby winnerpublished at 10:04 BST 10:04 BST Man City v Norwich…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-893920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}