Erling Haaland gives his view on Gabriel red card incident

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“I think that’s a red card,” Haaland said. “If I go down, like any other guy would do, it’s a red card, [but] I will never do this.

“My father taught me to stay on your feet and don’t be a… I cannot say the word, but it begins with a ‘p’. Maybe I should have gone down. Then it would be easier, but I didn’t. I got a yellow card.

“There were a lot of duels, a lot of scratches, if you want to say this. Sometimes my missus is not so happy about this. It looks a bit wrong, you know, but that’s the reality.”

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Former ref Dermot Gallagher didn’t agree with that assessment in his appearance on Sky Sports on Monday, arguing that the ref reached a fair outcome by booking both players.

“It’s not the cleverest thing to do,” Gallagher admitted. “He runs a massive risk. But if you look, he actually goes down the front of him, he doesn’t go through him, he doesn’t headbutt him.

“I think it was a very fair outcome, to be honest. I think both of them are aggressive, I think both of them the whole game, it just epitomised what was at stake.”