'No good' - James Tarkowski fumes over referee decision in Everton defeat at Man City

Everton captain James Tarkowski believes his side were the victims of yet another refereeing blunder at the Etihad Stadium over the corner-kick that resulted in Manchester City’s first goal on Saturday.

Tarkowski reckons the ball came off a home player and the visitors should have been given a goal-kick but referee John Brooks awarded a corner from which Erling Haaland opened the scoring. The Blues skipper said: “We got punished off what was a dubious corner for me. Dominic Calvert-Lewin was trying to head it one way and I think it was Ruben Dias trying to head it the other way and it goes where he heads it and they get the corner again.

“Once again it’s another decision that goes against us and there’s nothing we can do about that.

“Even on the corner, which I don’t think is a corner, it ricochets off about three people and somehow ends up at his feet. That’s how clinical he is, he gets one chance and he puts it away and we get punished but I thought we played really well and just a couple of minor details cost us.”

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Tarkowski believes the decision followed a concerning pattern for Everton, who remain the only team in the Premier League not to have been awarded a penalty, that has prevailed for much of the season with a string of high-profile decisions going against them. He said: “I just don’t think like there’s many that have gone our way. You could sit back and think, ‘that’s gone in our favour or that other one has gone in our favour’, but that hasn’t been the case.

“We go and speak to the ref and he’s like, ‘well, we’ll go and have a look at