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Manchester City attacking midfielder Rayan Cherki secured all three points for Pep Guardiola's side in a 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche insisted there was a clear foul in the build-up to Rayan Cherki's winner for Manchester City on Saturday afternoon. After a dull first half, the game sparked into life after the break with Tijjani Reijnders firing home inside the opening three minutes to give City the lead.
This lasted just eight minutes though as a counter attack resulted in Igor Jesus setting up Omari Hutchinson for the equaliser. From there, it was a battle as both sides pushed for a winner and it was the title challengers who found it.
A deep corner from Phil Foden was headed back by Josko Gvardiol and fired in by Cherki to ultimately seal the three points for the Blues. Before the game restarted, VAR checked as to whether Nico O'Reilly fouled Morgan Gibbs-White from the initial corner.
Gibbs-White had just got back to his feet and was unable to block Cherki's strike as it beat John Victor in the Forest goal. The Stockley Park officials decided there was no foul, despite the arguments of the home side. Speaking after the game, Dyche was left angry by the decision.
He said: "We’ve all seen it back. It’s an awful thing when you’ve played so well to come in and have to talk about officials affecting the game but they clearly did and I think everybody watching at home would have seen that. [It was] such an easy game to referee, in my opinion, such an easy decision for VAR.
"I can’t work out where football is with that sometimes. I’m a big fan of VAR but I can’t work how you can’t get that right. Morgan Gibbs-White quite clearly gets pushed to the floor, the same player who is then involved in blocking the ball and he can’t block it because as he jumps up it goes through the bit of his body he would’ve blocked it with.
"Whichever way you look at it, it’s a foul. I can’t work it out and then they score from it, which is the double whammy."
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