
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola unleashed his long-held frustrations with VAR after they reached a peak in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup semifinal victory over Newcastle United.
The Catalan coach saw his new signing Antoine Semenyo denied a second goal at St James’ Park after a four-minute VAR review discovered Erling Haaland to be in a fractionally offside position and interfering with play. The January recruit, who had opened the scoring 10 minutes earlier, agreed with his manager: “The second goal should have stood.”