MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

De Bruyne: ‘I don’t get new

handball rule at all’

Aymeric Laporte’s handball cost City a potential match-winner (Getty)

MARK CRITCHLEY

NORTHERN FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT

Kevin de Bruyne has become the latest Manchester City player to question the new handball regulations
after the Premier League champions were dramatically denied victory over Tottenham Hotspur.

With the score locked at 2-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, Gabriel Jesus briefly believed he had found a
stoppage-time winner, only for the goal to be disallowed following a VAR review.

The ball had struck Aymeric Laporte on the arm on its way through to Jesus. Laporte was challenging for
the ball with Tottenham’s Oliver Skipp and the touch did not appear intentional.

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