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Lee Wilmot

What Hugo Lloris said to referee Michael Oliver as Man City have late goal disallowed vs Spurs

Most people connected with Tottenham will have had a smile on their face at the final whistle of the game with Manchester City.

The back-to-back Premier League champions dominated Spurs almost from start to finish at the Etihad, but with only two shots on target, Spurs scored two goals, and claimed a 2-2 draw.

But that was not before injury-time controversy, when Gabriel Jesus thought he had won the game for City, only to see the goal ruled out by VAR for a handball by Aymeric Laporte in the build-up to the goal.

It was an extremely harsh decision, with no Spurs player appealing for the handball, as the ball happened to come off his arm as he went to head it on to Jesus.

In the aftermath of the controversial goal, Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris was seen smiling on Sky Sports, talking with referee Michael Oliver.

He is, of course, well within his rights to smile, given a big decision went his team's way, but what was he discussing with the referee?

Speaking to Sky Sports after the game he was asked what he thought of the decision.

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He said: "I don't know! I saw a goal, the way the referee took his decision was 100% then VAR comes in, it's a bit unlucky for City, anyone can have a different interpretation of this clip.

"We made so much effort, Lucas [Moura] deserves so much credit."

And then Lloris was asked what he was speaking to Oliver about.

"I was asking what happened, then I had a look to the big screen and then we realised it's handball. It's good for us but a bit unlucky for City. We need to enjoy the moment."

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