The chief of the Premier League referees, Howard Webb, has admitted Manchester City were given an incorrect goal.

The Citizens scored in the game to make it 2-1 through defender Nathan Ake.

However, there was a serious claim of offside in the replays, and Fulham were furious at the awarding of the goal.

Now Webb has admitted Ake's goal against Fulham as he is quoted as saying by The Mail: “From the outset, I want to say this should have been disallowed.

“These are not always easy to call because you are trying to get two pieces of information together. Is the player in an offside position, which official is in a good position to see, and what consequence was there of the player being in that position and how it impacts the opponents?

“It certainly appears that Akanji has an impact on Bernd Leno, the goalkeeper seems to hesitate. The officials on the field gave the goal, they did not see the obvious action that impacted Leno's ability to play the ball.

“They did not feel it was clearly impactful on Leno's ability to play the ball but when you see it, you can see that hesitation by the goalkeeper who was waiting to see whether the ball made contact with Akanji, which would have deflected the ball.

“Unfortunately it was not identified on the day and the learning from this will be shared from all of our group because we are looking to do better each and every week - and this was an error."