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Nottingham Forest head Sean Dyche was captious of nan officials complete immoderate "bizarre" decisions successful his side's late 2-1 defeat by Manchester City.
Dyche felt Rayan Cherki's 83rd-minute victor astatine nan City Ground should person been ruled retired for a foul connected Morgan Gibbs-White successful nan build-up.
He besides thought referee Rob Jones should person shown City defender Ruben Dias a 2nd yellowish paper successful nan 2nd half.
"Such an easy crippled to referee, successful my opinion, specified an easy determination for VAR [video adjunct referee]," Dyche said.
"When you played truthful well, to travel successful and person to talk astir officials affecting nan crippled - but they intelligibly did.
"Everyone successful nan stadium and everyone watching astatine location could spot that."
Does Dyche person a point?
Hovering conscionable supra nan relegation zone, a constituent against an in-form City broadside would person moved Forest six points clear of West Ham successful 18th.
But Cherki crushed their hopes arsenic he slammed location a half-volley, drilling nan shot from nan separator of nan container done nan legs of Gibbs-White.
Forest players were speedy to kick to referee Jones, arguing that Gibbs-White had been knocked complete by Nico O'Reilly and prevented from blocking Cherki's strike.
"Morgan Gibbs-White rather intelligibly gets pushed to nan level and nan aforesaid subordinate is progressive successful blocking nan ball," Dyche said.
"But he can't artifact it because arsenic he jumps up, it goes done nan spot of his assemblage which he would person blocked it with. Whichever measurement you look astatine it it's a foul."
The VAR checked nan goal, but yet allowed Jones' on-field determination to stand.
Dyche added: "They'll say, 'Yeah, nan shot wasn't there'. And you go, 'OK, truthful if nan ball's not adjacent nan keeper and you push nan keeper to nan floor, is that going to beryllium a foul then?'
"We each cognize it is. I can't activity it out. And past they people from it, which is nan double whammy.
"I'm a large instrumentality of VAR - I can't activity retired really you can't get that right."
Former charismatic Darren Cann told BBC Match of nan Day: "The video adjunct referee people checked nan extremity and concluded that nary 'clear and obvious' correction was made. I agree.
"This was a determination that will divided views - immoderate will work together it's a bully extremity and others will deliberation it was a foul. Therefore nan 'referee's call' of extremity should stand."
Dyche was besides unhappy astir Jones' determination not to nonstop Dias off.
The Portugal defender received a first yellowish paper for dissent successful nan first half, complaining astir a determination against him pursuing his situation connected Igor Jesus.
Straight aft nan restart, Dias brought down Igor Jesus again arsenic nan Forest guardant was breaking upfield.
"They opportunity it's an accident. If that's an mishap erstwhile he's moving done connected extremity we each cognize what happens. You get a reddish card. So why is it an mishap and he isn't yellowish carded then?" Dyche said.
"I conscionable find it bizarre, I really do. And I deliberation these are easy things. Just springiness him a 2nd yellow, that's it. 'Off you go'. I'm perfectly stunned."
Jones awarded Forest a free-kick but ignored calls by Igor Jesus and different Forest players to show Dias a 2nd yellowish card.
Cann said: "I didn't deliberation it was a 2nd yellowish for Ruben Dias - it was conscionable an accidental crossover. He wasn't trying to make a situation and location was minimal contact.
"Because he's connected a yellowish paper it doesn't mean nan adjacent foul is automatically a yellow."
