BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche described Manchester City's controversial second goal in the Clarets' 5-0 defeat as 'confusing' and felt the home side could have had two men sent off.

The Turf Moor chief admitted the decisions may not have resulted in a different outcome but certainly felt they didn't help the Clarets cause.

Dyche felt a challenge from City captain Vincent Kompany on Aaron Lennon inside the first minute warranted a red card rather than a yellow, while the Burnley boss also viewed Leroy Sane's second half hack at Matt Lowton as a sending off offence.

The main talking point of the afternoon was City's second, which came after referee Jon Moss moved the whistle to his lips and was seemingly on the brink of giving Pep Guardiola's side a spot kick for a Jack Cork challenge on Sane, only to change his mind and wave play on.

The ball then appeared to run out of play but in the confusion David Silva swept it back into the box and Bernardo Silva scored.

Dyche and his players were incensed and within two minutes Fernandinho added a third and it was effectively game over.

On the goal, the Clarets chief said: "There’s so many things, Sane goes down with the tinies of touches, a pull of the shirt. I don’t know how hard you need to pull a shirt for someone to spin around and fall on the floor.

“I’m always amazed by what’s going on in the game at the moment.

“Then our players respond to that, feeling he’s gone to ground far too easily, let’s say, and the referee is going to blow his whistle, then decides not to, and waves it away.

“In the meantime, a player who’s off the pitch now walks back on the pitch to get the ball which is off the pitch, to deliver a cross they then score from.

“If that’s not confusing for everyone in the stadium, it’s certainly confusing for me.

“I thought it then, I’ve seen it back, with as best view as we can get, the ball is out of play, forgetting about everything else.

“The biggest learning curve, and I said to the players afterwards, you have to stay focused, and afterwards remonstrate. We normally do, to be fair, play through the moment.

“But we were locked in that moment and didn’t let it go. A couple of their players switch off as well, but they are human at the end of the day.

“Then they scored from a really soft corner, and the game has gone then.

“We’re not getting back here at 3-0. The rest is history."

Dyche also felt City were fortunate to end the game with 11 players on the pitch.

He said of Kompany's early challenge: “In the modern game that’s a red card.

"I don’t like red cards if they can be not given, but that one is a red card, he’s out of control, doesn’t know where the man or ball is, it’s just a throw of the leg.

“It’s high, (Lennon) has got a cut that he’s managed to get on with, two stitches in it.

“It’s high on his thigh, there’s no control in the moment, not vicious, but no control, and we’re told control is a big thing in that type of challenge, so it’s a red card.”

Dyche added: “Then we get on to Sane, which has got to be a red card, for kicking Matt Lowton for no reason at all.

“Just smashes him round the legs - it’s got to be a red card, simple as that.

“That one’s a definite, I don’t think there’s any debate, you can’t just run around a football pitch, and when the ball is nowhere near you just smash someone round the back of the legs, that’s unacceptable, surely.

“But it’s just crazy where the game’s going, no one cares about diving, they dived all over the place again today, and no one cares.”