Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has given verdict on Ederson injury and the condition of his injury
The Premier League champions suffered an injury to first-choice goalkeeper Ederson early in the game against Newcastle. However, City fans were enraged when the Brazilian took up the issue as play continued due to a delayed offside flag.
Ederson was injured in a collision with Sean Longstaff after the Newcastle attacker put the ball in the net. The goal was ruled out by VAR, but Ederson was forced to leave and was replaced by Stefan Ortega. City fans took to social media to complain that the assistant referee did not raise the flag due to the offside rule regarding VAR.
“Absolute f*cking joke the offside procedure nowadays, he’s blatantly offside, linesman doesn’t raise his flag and Ederson gets injured as a result,” a fan said.
“Stupidest f*cking rule change in football – playing on when clearly offside,” commented journalist Simon Hattenstone. City have now lost Ederson to a ‘playing on’ injury after already losing Stones to it.”
Someone else said: “Stones and Ederson now injured due to football collectively deciding linesmen are basically pointless.”
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Ederson’s injury came not long after defender John Stones was injured in identical circumstances. He challenged Beto to stop him from scoring against Everton last month, but the goal would not have counted anyhow because the forward was offside. However, the assistant referee did not signal offside since Premier League officials are instructed to delay raising their flags and stopping play.
City will be hopeful that the injury to Brazilian custodian Ederson is not too serious. They’re hoping he’ll be available to play against Tottenham in the FA Cup on January 26.
