Manchester City v Leeds United: Premier League – live!

9.25am EDT 09:25

GOAL! Manchester City 1-2 Leeds United (Dallas, 90+1 mins)

Leeds only go and steal it on the break! The ball is played to Dallas, surging into an enormous gap between Stones and Fernandinho, and from the edge of the area he slides it past the advancing Ederson and into the back of the net!

9.24am EDT 09:24

90+1 mins: Fernandinho heads a Gundogan cross into Meslier’s arms, as we go into three minutes’ stoppage time.

9.21am EDT 09:21

88 mins: Bernardo Silva dances into the area, nudges the ball inside Alioski, and shoots wide of the far post with his left peg.

9.19am EDT 09:19

85 mins: A chance for Leeds to steal a winner! Raphinha is played through, runs into the area, takes a slightly heavy final touch, and Ederson executes a perfect sliding tackle as the Brazilian tries to take the ball round him.

9.16am EDT 09:16

83 mins: Bernardo Silva is booked for fouling Raphinha after completely buying the Leeds player’s shimmy and sway in the centre circle.

9.15am EDT 09:15

81 mins: “I was already 99% certain I was going to cancel my sky/bt sports subscription at the end of this season because of VAR and the fact that football is no longer a contact sport seemingly and that red card is the final nail in that particular coffin,” writes Ronan. “They are destroying the beautiful game. ‘Furious’ doesn’t come close to how I feel.”

I really don’t think this was the worst of VAR. In fact it was classic VAR, a challenge that looks much worse in slow motion than it did live, and a referee who upgrades his decision after repeated viewings of slow-motion replays. Cooper won the ball and showed no violent intent, and I think that should have swayed the decision in his favour, but this referee gave the benefit of his doubt to the other side. It was irritating, certainly, and this game and thus an hour or so of my life has been worse for it, but it wasn’t unforgiveable. The real worst of VAR is the armpit-hair offside, which I will never be able to accept.

9.11am EDT 09:11

78 mins: Fernandinho picks up the ball about 35 yards out, and ahead of him several City players make runs and the Leeds defence scatters to shadow them. Fernandinho strides into the resulting space and has as long as he likes to size up his shooting opportunities, but eventually arrows his effort wide.

9.09am EDT 09:09

GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Leeds United (Torres, 76 mins)

Finally they break Leeds’ resistance! Fernandinho finds Bernardo Silva, just onside, and instead of turning back towards goal he lays off to Torres, whose first-time effort from just to the right of goal finds the far corner!

Despite being under pressure from Kalvin Phillips of Leeds, Ferran Torres fires home Manchester City’s equaliser. Photograph: Matt McNulty/Manchester City FC/Getty Images

Updated at 9.15am EDT

9.08am EDT 09:08

75 mins: Foden tries to jink his way into space in the area. Fat chance, mate. There are eight outfield Leeds players there, plus a keeper.

9.06am EDT 09:06

73 mins: Another City effort, Cancelo having a pop from the edge of the area that Meslier falls upon. Apparently Leeds have only had one shot today, and City are up to 22.

9.05am EDT 09:05

72 mins: Leeds get a chance to break, but Raphinha releases Alioski, who doesn’t have the pace to profit.

9.04am EDT 09:04

71 mins: Fernandinho’s vicious effort from 25 yards is straight down the middle of goal but high enough, and moving just enough, to force Meslier to tip over rather than catch.

9.03am EDT 09:03

70 mins: Phillips looks to have been clipped by Stones as Leeds try to break, but the referee doesn’t think so, so Phillips hops up and expertly dispossesses Cancelo to make sure City don’t profit.

9.00am EDT 09:00

67 mins: Cancelo’s free kick is dangerous, but Phillips heads it out and Gundogan lashes a shot high from the edge of the area.

8.59am EDT 08:59

66 mins: Alioski is booked for not touching Ferran Torres with a sliding tackle. Andre Marriner is buying everything City want to sell him today.

8.54am EDT 08:54

61 mins: Nar miss! Stones has yet another shot, which deflects off a defender to Gundogan, off whom it deflects again to Bernardo Silva, whose shot from six yards goes wide! This seems so unlikely the referee decides it must surely have been deflected, so gives City a corner.

8.53am EDT 08:53

60 mins: Stones, five yards outside the area once again, has a shot that would have gone in had Meslier not caught it quite easily.

8.51am EDT 08:51

58 mins: Gundogan comes on for Ake as City turn up the heat in the hunt for an equaliser.

8.49am EDT 08:49

56 mins: Every single person who has emailed me about the red card is furious about it. “Every time VAR does something stupid, I turn off the television,” says Michael Smith. “ It’s getting harder and harder to make it to the end of matches.”

8.47am EDT 08:47

54 mins: That was from another Stones run to the edge of the area and lay-off. He’s playing like he’s got money on himself getting an assist (which he obviously won’t, as that would be entirely improper).

8.46am EDT 08:46

53 mins: Chance for City! Zinchenko sends a stinging drive low and across goal from 18 yards, and Meslier holds it at the second attempt as Sterling ran in sniffing a rebound.

8.46am EDT 08:46

52 mins: Jesus is worked into a crossing position on the left, but blasts the ball straight into Phillips. It could have deflected pretty much anywhere, but chose over the bar.

8.41am EDT 08:41

48 mins: Stones, as he has many times today, waltzes down the middle to the edge of the Leeds area. Once there he decides someone else had better have the ball so, with no obvious pass on, he falls over instead and the referee gives City a free kick. Zinchenko sends it into the wall.

8.39am EDT 08:39

46 mins: Peeeeep! The second half has begun. No halftimely changes but immediately after the red card Struijk came on to replace Bamford.

8.37am EDT 08:37

A bit of post-red reaction as the players come back out ahead of half two:

“You have to question whether football is still a contact sport after that decision,” rages Roy Allen. “He played the ball, made glancing, unavoidable contact with an opponent in the follow through. The opponent, as they all do these days, acted like his leg had been smashed and convinced the perennially useless officials to wield a red card. The PL has the worst officials of any major league. Never mind the system they’re using: any system is only as good as the idiots at the controls.”

“I don’t know what effect it has on decision-making of referees, but having been shown that tackle by Cooper on Jesus approximately a bajillon times on loop, I feel like my leg’s been broken in half,” writes Kari Tulinius. “I don’t understand the utility of showing painful tackles that often to the viewing public.”

8.22am EDT 08:22

45+6 mins: Into the sixth of three minutes of stoppage time, the first couple of which were themselves entirely stoppage.

8.20am EDT 08:20

45+2 mins: From the free kick Zinchenko sends another good cross into the box, and it hits the back of Stones’ head and goes wide.

8.19am EDT 08:19

Red card! Liam Cooper is sent off!

45+1 mins: It was clearly an honest attempt to win the ball, but after clearing it his right boot clipped Jesus’s right knee. It was a glancing blow, but in slow motion it is made to look reckless and out of control, and Andre Marriner is convinced.