"It looked like" - West Brom: Carlos Corberan breaks silence on Burnley FC, Jaidon Anthony flashpoint | OneFootball

The Baggies boss has offered his thoughts on the big flashpoint from Thursday night's 0-0 draw with the Clarets.

West Bromwich Albion boss Carlos Corberan believes Jaidon Anthony's controversial disallowed goal, which would've won Thursday night's game for Scott Parker's Burnley side, "looked like a foul".

The Baggies and the Clarets were playing out a fairly uneventful 0-0 draw until Anthony's back post header just before the hour mark was powered home, before Burnley's celebrations were cut short seconds later after he was adjudged to have pushed Albion's Callum Styles in the back.

With the game ending in a frustrating scoreless draw for both teams, this proved to be the real flashpoint of the evening, as West Brom recorded their sixth consecutive draw in the Championship, whilst Burnley's winless run extended to four.

Replays would suggest that Burnley can feel extremely hard done by, as there appeared to be minimal contact from Anthony on Styles, but the Albion boss defended referee Tom Nield's decision to award a foul.

Corberan reveals stance on disallowed goal

It's never a surprise to see managers who've benefited from a refereeing decision to come out and defend the man in the middle, but with Burnley's goal being fairly unanimously agreed upon as being wrongly chalked off, some may have expected the Albion boss to call into question the officials' call too.

However, speaking via the club website post-match, Corberan decided to take a different view, as he admitted that his initial reaction was that it was indeed a foul by Anthony.

Corberan said: "They put the ball in the net and it looked like a foul from my perspective sat near the bench, but you never know if the contact is enough or not enough to give the decision."

Burnley boss Scott Parker disagreed with the decision

Whilst the West Brom manager took the approach of it looking like a foul from where he was sitting, Burnley boss Scott Parker, not surprisingly, took a very different viewpoint.

Had Anthony's goal stood, the Clarets would've secured a big three points at The Hawthorns, and put an end to a frustrating string of results that has seen the club drop out of an automatic promotion spot and into the play-off places in recent days.

Speaking via The Burnley Express post-match, Parker fumed: "It’s disappointing really. With all the people watching the game tonight, there’s probably only one man that didn’t think it was a goal and that was the ref. It was a clear goal, wasn’t it?

"That’s really disappointing, but overall I’m really pleased with the team in terms of our general performance." Parker was then quizzed on whether he was afforded an explanation by the referee, to which he replied: "No, he didn’t give an explanation.

"It is what it is now, he’s given the decision. I’m amazed he gave it though because the linesman is literally in line with a much smaller distance, yet the ref has decided to give the decision. I do know the linesman didn’t give it, he didn’t communicate that it was a foul and it clearly wasn’t. It was very, very soft.

"The thing is the boy that was meant to have got fouled didn’t react. I didn’t see anything. It was a late whistle too. Look, he’s made a mistake tonight. We all make mistakes and he’s seen something which he thought was a foul, it was just massively soft."