Gabby Logan responded sarcastically after Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra refused to dwell on Cristiano Ronaldo's antics in Manchester United's win over Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday night.
United beat Spurs 2-0 on Wednesday night, with Fred opening the scoring early in the second half and Bruno Fernandes doubling the home side's advantage. Ronaldo wasn't involved, though, with Erik ten Hag not giving the veteran a chance to add to last season's hat-trick against the London side, and the Portugal star stormed down the tunnel before full-time.
After the final whistle, pundits Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra attempted to play down the significance of Ronaldo's actions, trying to instead focus on the result. However, presenter Logan questioned the former players' response.
"There was a game, a magnificent game for Manchester United," former Arsenal forward Henry said on Amazon Prime Video. "The story shouldn't be of Ronaldo walking off."
Evra, like his fellow Frenchman, stressed that he felt the display from Ten Hag's side was the most important thing for him. "I don't want to find any excuse. I want to be focused more on the performance of Manchester United. I want to stop talking every day about Cristiano," the former defender said.
United closed to within four points of Spurs with their victory, and still have a game in hand on Antonio Conte's men. However, despite the result and the performance gaining plenty of attention, Logan still had questions about Ronaldo's behaviour after it threatened to distract from his teammates' success.
"What do you do as a manager in that situation," Logan asked the pundits. "Should [Ten Hag] have intervened? Should he have told him to stay where he was?"
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"But he [Ronaldo] makes it [the story], though," she said in response to Henry's comments. "In terms of him doing that, he doesn't have to do that, does he?" she added, before asking Evra whether he would have acted in the same way.
It was at this point that Evra leapt to Ronaldo's defence, urging onlookers to wait until we know more about the situation before making it a story and suggesting we shouldn't only talk about Ronaldo "I guess if he'd stayed sat on his seat, we wouldn't be talking about him," was Logan's reply.
Commentator Alan Shearer had also spoken out about Ronaldo during the game, and suggested Ten Hag's decision to leave him out was vindicated by the result. "The manager had a big call to make in leaving him out but it's turned out to be the right decision because they've done everything right," the former England striker said.
"It's a difficult situation because, for him [Erik ten Hag], we're talking about the best player in the world, maybe the best player we've ever seen, so he's under pressure from that point of view. But it does make things difficult for the manager because he's going to be asked about that in the press conference and really he should be talking about every one of his players on the pitch tonight because they've all been impressive."
