[Senator Clay Davis]

Well in the clip Bruno clearly does not get a touch, and technically awarding De Gea the assist is correct. But if De Gea does provide the assist, and he does, it by default is an offside goal. Leaving it up as a De Gea assist is putting it literally on the record that an offside goal was awarded. Even though Bruno doesn't get a touch they are basically compelled to give him the assist, less they put their incompetence on the record rather than leaving it to interpretation.

At the end of the day it ultimately does not matter, it changes nothing other than a great goal that shouldn't have technically counted will now count, in one of the least meaningful games of the year. Just another example of the quality of English refs (and there were several more examples in other matches yesterday).