Michael Carrick slams ‘massive’ offside call as Patrick Bamford admits Willy Gnonto got lucky

Michael Carrick slams the ‘massive’ offside call that ‘changed the game’ as Patrick Bamford admits Willy Gnonto got lucky.

Leeds’ victory was a controversial one given with Wilfried Gnonto scoring the visitors’ third goal from an offside position.

Crysencio Summerville slipped a pass behind the Middlesbrough backline, the ball met Gnonto, and put it past Seny Dieng, however, replays showed Gnonto had been well offside when the ball was played into him.

Leeds climb back up to second in the Championship table, one point behind leaders Leicester and one ahead of Ipswich in third, while Middlesbrough’s faint play-off hopes end as they stay ninth, nine points off the top six with only two games left to play.

Should this have been ruled out for offside? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/xsTOMOrdEA

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Getinnnnnnnnnnn

Leeds, on one of those very rare occasions, get a small bit of luck on which Gnonto superbly capitalises to put Leeds 3-2 ahead on 39 minutes.

C’mon Leeds! pic.twitter.com/wbXOPyMAyU

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“The offside goal is a massive, massive decision, not just for us, but I’m sure there’s two other teams that have been affected by it too, in the bigger picture,” Carrick said, per Northern Echo. “It’s such a big thing.

“We asked the boys to defend well and hold the line together, and the line is impeccable really. There’s three of them in the line on the edge of the box, they’re holding the line, and you expect that the offside will be given. It was too clear not to be.”

Carrick took issue with referee Tony Harrington on the pitch come full time.

“To be honest, I got really frustrated with the added time too,” said Carrick. “The board goes up for five minutes, and we end up getting about 18 seconds added on (on top of that). But the ball was out of play for 90 seconds or two minutes within that five minutes that was getting added on.

Twitter users reacted as Michael Carrick slams the ‘massive’ offside call while Patrick Bamford admits Willy Gnonto got lucky…

@UTB_Sedgefield: Top class. Robbed by disgraceful officiating but remains professional 👏

@wilesrunOG: Will Boro be assessing their options in regards to the officiating ?

@AlexNoctaris: Same lino missing two offsides. Joke officiating again.

@Adam_Macadie: Miles offside, how’s that stood?

@__Jordz: Miles offside 😂

@ellisd479: Club statement on officiating needed

@SmellyFaceToe: He’s fucking scored from Redcar he’s that far offside

@MattyRobsonTV: I’d love to know how these deserve a 4-2 lead here, they’ve done absolutely nothing and we’ve been shafted by an offside and an awful penalty decision. Absolutely robbed by the officials, no other reason 🤬 #Boro #UTB

@Jaythesliverfox: Lino in this #Boro vs #LUFC games is having a laugh. How the fck wasn’t that goal not given as off side, even Stevie Wonder could of seen that ffs

@jonesyd95: Quite funny watching football fans get wound up by a decision in a match that didn’t have VAR, a mere…*checks notes* …27(ish) hours after getting wound up by a high profile VAR decision

@ibberso: Pathetic officials are having too much of a say this season.

@xReeceL2002: VAR ruins the game, however…. Inept, clueless, useless & pathetic EFL referees/officials ruin it more, they obviously need VAR in order to fulfil their job properly, just give them it from next season as they’re so useless it’s unbelievable, corrupt from the core.

@quarantiern: What the fuck was the linesman looking at? That is not even close

@caseywatson_: I’d be less pissed off if it was only slightly off, given that we don’t have anything to play for, but this is diabolical from the officials

@RyanEvans29: Horrible few days for Scotland and England referees.

@waltygm: how the fuck has the lino not spotted that, he’s about 2 foot offside hahahaha

@Powell_Matthew: That’s where technology should be used to show a clear and obvious error by the linesman. One replay shows he’s offside and you don’t need to dick about drawing lines.

@rachaelburt1: Absolutely miles offside. But championship officials are absolutely shocking

@JackWhitman_7: just cba anymore

@Levinicolex: After all the calls given against us it’s about time we had something awarded to us 😂 fair play 💛💙

@TheNunezEra9: How does a professional linesman not see this as offside?

@JackMorris0: Offside but was a fairytale ending so it’s fine

@clkmotsmlvlle: nah would’ve ruined the magic of the championship, right?

@youlesie23: This is an example as to why you can’t win as an official. Yes it’s offside, but Bamford is blocking the view of the offside player. Given the assistant only gets one chance to look at it, it’s really not as easy to get right as people are making out.