Bernardo Silva was awarded a penalty after Nick Pope was adjudged to have felled the Man City star
FA officials will study video footage to decide if the Manchester City player was guilty of deliberating deceiving referee Roger East to win a win penalty in Saturday’s 3-0 win over Burnley.
Replays showed there was minimal contact from goalkeeper Nick Pope but Silva infuriated the Clarets players and manager Sean Dyche with his theatrics.
Dyche said: “If your kid cheated in a maths test you wouldn’t go, ‘well done’. You’d say, ‘what are you doing?’You’d go down the school and say, ‘sorry, he cheated, he needs to that again’.
“But weirdly in football it’s almost like ‘good lad’. I find that really weird. Morally, I find that really odd.
“Accidental simulation, as they call it, that happens. There are too many in this league to be accidental.”
He clearly touched me and my ankle turned
Man City star Bernardo Silva
Former Monaco player Silva protested his innocence: “He clearly touched me and my ankle turned, I felt it. It hurt a little bit and for me it was a penalty.”
Carlisle’s Shaun Miller last week became the first player to be found guilty of simulation since the FA brought in new laws in May. He received the statutory two-game ban.
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