Wayne Rooney and Danny Murphy have described it as "baffling" that VAR failed to disallow Erling Haaland's winning goal during the Manchester derby, a decision that the sport's refereeing body has since admitted was an error in judgement.

The two Match of the Day pundits were in agreement that the goal — which proved decisive in Manchester City's victory over Manchester United — should never have stood. Both Rooney and Murphy struggled to explain how the technology failed to intervene at such a critical moment in the game.

Despite their frustration over the Haaland goal, neither pundit took issue with the dismissal of Phil Foden during the same fixture. Rooney and Murphy both concluded that the red card shown to Foden was the correct call by the match officials.

The refereeing body's public acknowledgement of the VAR error has added further scrutiny to the use of the technology in the Premier League, with questions growing over the consistency and reliability of video review decisions at key moments.