Jermaine Jenas believes that Manchester City attacker Raheem Sterling should have been sent off during their clash with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, per Match of the Day 2 via Football.London.

What’s he said?

The England international was booked in the first-half for a dangerous-looking tackle on Dele Alli, though replays showed that the challenge could have inflicted serious injury on his international team-mate.

VAR reviewed the challenge but chose to stick with referee Mike Dean’s initial decision.

Jenas, however, thinks that he should have been shown a red card, comparing the challenge to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s tackle on Crystal Palace’s Max Meyer, with the Arsenal forward sent off after a VAR review. The pundit, of course, played for Spurs between 2005 and 2013.

He said: “I thought he was fortunate (to stay on) and that is based on previous challenges that we have seen given by VAR.

“He’s late, he’s high, I don’t see how it’s any different to the Aubameyang challenge, it’s dangerous.

“What I would say on this, I think both referees got the decision right. With Aubameyang the red card was upgraded, the referee originally gave a yellow card.

“Here, I think Mike Dean gets it right as well but based on VAR you have to say with the decisions that have been given, I was surprised to see Raheem Sterling stay on the pitch.”

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Lucky all over

City were fortunate to end the game with Sterling on the pitch.

After his tackle on Alli, Spurs conceded a penalty following Serge Aurier’s challenge on Sergio Aguero; Hugo Lloris saved Ilkay Gundogan’s spot-kick but Sterling reached the rebound, only to go down under the challenge of the Frenchman.

However, VAR reviewed that too and did not find enough evidence to award a second penalty. As a result, he should probably have been shown a second yellow card for a dive.

As it was, City were reduced to ten men after Oleksandr Zinchenko, who was shown two yellow cards, the second coming after a tactical foul on Harry Winks.

Pep Guardiola’s side subsequently conceded twice, with Steven Bergwijn and Son Heung-Min both on the scoresheet, and lost the game.

They remain fortunate to have ended the game with ten players.

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