THE Match of the Day pundits backed Burnley boss Sean Dyche's view that Manchester City's second goal should not have stood and that Pep Guardiola's men could have easily been reduced to nine men during the weekend clash.

City ran out 5-0 winners over the Clarets at the Etihad but Dyche was angry with the manner of the second City goal, scored by Bernardo Silva after David Silva pulled the ball back after it had run out of play.

And Alan Shearer, speaking on Saturday night's programme, was in agreement with the Turf boss.

"(Sean Dyche) should be miffed, I am sure there are stronger words he would like to use," said Shearer.

"Not only was it offside but the ball is out of play. Both players are off the pitch (James Tarkowski and David Silva) therefore deemed to be on the line, so yes he is offside.

"Yes the Burnley players stop but the ball is out, it is very tight but you can see when we slow it down that it is two or three inches out. You can understand why he (Dyche) is angry and rightly so."

Dyche felt Vincent Kompany's first-minute challenge on Aaron Lennon and Leroy Sane's second half hack at Matt Lowton were both red cards.

On Kompany's challenge on Aaron Lennon in the opening moments of the match, Shearer added: "It should have been a red card, endangering his opponent Aaron Lennon and the reason he gets away with I think is because it is about 30 seconds into the game. Whether it is the 49th minute or the first minute, it is a terrible tackle and it should have been a red card."

And Danny Murphy admitted that Sane's challenge could have easily seen the German midfielder dismissed.

"This is ridiculous and a bit more than petulance," he said. "I have seen red cards for that, Lowton - credit to him, jumped straight up and although he was angry he did him (Sane) a favour by not rolling around."