Man City receive new John Stones VAR verdict as Premier League meeting update given

Erling Haaland is the only Manchester City player to score more goals directly leading to points this season than John Stones after the defender left it late again against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Five weeks on from firing in his 98th minute to draw with Arsenal, Stones headed home in the fifth minute of added-time at Molineux to take all three points back to Manchester. In doing so, they remain only one point behind Liverpool, who stayed at the top of the Premier League table after their win over Chelsea.

While that gap remains the same, City's advantage over Mikel Arteta's side has increased to three points. The ten-man Gunners' loss to Bournemouth 2-0 enabled Pep Guardiola's team to capitalise.

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In a weekend of refereeing controversy, which started at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at Saturday lunchtime and continued to Sunday evening's game at Anfield, City did not escape unscathed. However, there is a consensus about their winning goal at Wolves as we round-up the latest headlines:

The former Premier League referee Keith Hackett believes "it was the right call to award the goal" Stones scored despite the initial confusion about VAR's involvement. "[Stuart] Attwell was right to give Kavanagh the opportunity to assess his opinion," the retired official has said in The Telegraph.

"I believe Silva used a degree of intelligence rather than skulduggery in the build-up." Hackett continued: "Did that action on Wolves keeper Jose Sa prior to the Manchester City corner kick prevent the goalkeeper from making a save? I am not so sure that was even looked at by the referee when reviewing