Alejandro Garnacho’s goal was ruled out in a freak Joshua Zirkzee offside.

The Manchester United winger thought he had tapped in an easy finish to put the Red Devils in front against Brighton with 20 minutes to go.

Alejandro Garnacho scores for Man Utd but it’s disallowed for one of the tightest offsides you’ll see 🫣 pic.twitter.com/wVw1UicyZu

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However, the ball ricocheted off Zirkzee’s knee ON the line with the striker having already slid in and missing the initial pass across.

And so even though the ball was clearly going in, the goal was chalked off in bizarre fashion because the summer signing was ahead of Garnacho at the time of the shot.

Had Zirkzee made contact with the ball once the ball had fully crossed the line, the goal would have stood.

But the Dutchman could do nothing to prevent the inadvertent intervention.

Zirkzee – who scored the winner on his debut against Fulham last week – reacted immediately as if he knew he had messed up the Garnacho goal.

So when the Argentine wheeled away in celebration, his team-mate got to his feet and stood perplexed and dejected inside the goal.