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Warnock shocked by Eriksen in Tottenham v Man City

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Neil Warnock was baffled by Christian Eriksen’s role in Manchester City’s disallowed goal against Tottenham in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday night.

Eriksen, 27, gifted possession to Man City before Raheem Sterling sent the Etihad into raptures when he scored what looked like the winning goal.

However after a VAR review it was decided that Sergio Aguero was offside in the build-up and the goal was eventually disallowed.

Even though it was the correct decision, VAR has been criticised due to it taking away the feeling of pure joy when your teams scores a late winner.

However Cardiff boss Warnock has admitted that all he thought about in that moment was how cheaply Eriksen gave the ball away in the build-up to the goal.

“It’s going to stop that euphoria,” said Warnock in a press conference, as shown by Sky Sports News on Friday [01:55pm].

“I wasn’t euphoric. As a manager I just kept thinking ‘oh my God, what has Eriksen done? What has he done? How the hell is he going to go in the dressing room now?’.”

OPINION

Eriksen must have been the most relived man in the world on Wednesday night when the VAR review decided to rule out Sterling’s goal. If that goal had stood, Tottenham would have crashed out of the Champions League and there would have been so much criticism aimed at Eriksen, who was not at his best on the night. The Denmark international could leave North London in the summer as he is set to enter the final year of his contract at the club. Daniel Levy is more than likely going to cash in on the former Ajax midfielder rather than run of the risk of him leaving for free next year. It would have been a massive shame if one of the last memories of Eriksen’s spell at Tottenham was him gifting the ball to Manchester City, who went on to score. Thankfully the goal was correctly disallowed and Spurs are now in the semi-finals of the Champions League where they face Ajax. They really could go all the way.

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