Former Celtic transfer target Edouard Michut scored his first professional goal for Sunderland on a controversial night in the English Championship.
The French prospect, whose parent club Paris Saint-Germain have earmarked as a big player in the future, is currently on loan with Tony Mowbray's side and managed to strike in the first half to score his first ever goal. The 19-year-old was linked with a move to Scottish champions Celtic last summer. It was believed an offer of £2m was touted for Ange Postecoglou to bring the youngster to Glasgow but the Aussie boss moved to shut down reports.
Yet the midfielder was on hand to score in a controversial evening as it was revealed post-match by Mowbray that an official had claimed to a member of Sunderland's coaching staff that Sheffield United's equaliser should not have stood. This sparked an irate reaction from the Black Cats gaffer.
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He said: "It would be great if the referee or the linesman could come in here and tell you why they allowed that [second] goal to stand. "I'm sure you've all seen it because it was a televised game, there were three men offside and one of them went to try and poke it in which means our goalkeeper stands because if he gets a touch...
"He misses it, I think, but it bounces in. One of my coaching staff has just come out of the officials' office and said the referee has apologised and said he got it wrong, which doesn't mean very much to us at the moment.
"I genuinely sit here and say that if you know anything about football, it's offside. I don't think there's any doubt he's interfering with play, he's made a movement towards the ball and our goalkeeper has stood still rather than getting the flight of the ball and it's gone in. Between the two of them, the linesman on this side and the referee, they've got it badly wrong and it's ultimately cost us a point tonight.
"I've been in football since I left school 43 years ago or whatever it was, and offside is offside - and that is offside. I don't have any grey areas and that's why I struggle with it.
"Is it right that the goal is allowed because the referee is incompetent? Or because him and his linesman's communication was really, really poor? It just shouldn't happen, and yet some guy in a blue top tonight allowed the goal to stand and we had to suffer the consequences of it."
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