It was a proud moment for Lucas Bergvall on Wednesday night as the 18-year-old scored his first goal in England. The talented Swede stroked home a Dominic Solanke pass to score the only goal of the game in the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg with Liverpool.

Having been smashed 6-3 by the Reds in the Premier League just last month, it was an impressive response from Spurs, who now take a slender advantage into the second leg at Anfield next month.

The goal was not without controversy though. Liverpool boss Arne Slot and captain Virgil van Dijk were apoplectic that Bergvall was in a position to score, believing the midfielder should have been sent off moments earlier.

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Already on a booking, Bergvall had appeared to slide in and foul Kostas Tsimikas as Liverpool went on the attack, with play going on and the Reds moving up the pitch but failing to take advantage.

Slot said after the game: "I think I saw Ange sitting here unhappy on Sunday (sic). People say these decisions even out. I don't agree with that but today a decision went for them. Very unlucky for us. I never thought we were going to lose this game.

"I don’t think there’s any debate about that [being a second yellow card]. Every manager would prefer to get a second yellow card for the opposition than [an advantage] to finish that counter-attack."

But footage has emerged which suggests there was no chance the midfielder was going to be shown a second yellow card and ultimately sent off.

Everyone watching thought referee Stuart Attwell had decided to play advantage and that he would come back to the foul afterwards. However, that did not happen and the footage shows why.

Attwell did not play advantage. He did not think there was a foul. After Bergvall slides in to make the tackle, Attwell can be seen pointing at the ball, to say the Spurs midfielder won the ball, rather than committing a foul. he did not outstretch his arm to play advantage.

So it was not a mistake that the referee refused to give a second yellow card for the foul, but a mistake from the referee in not thinking it was a foul in the first place.

VAR cannot intervene when it comes to second yellow cards, and therefore Bergvall was free to stay on the pitch and score the winner.