No - not if Buonanotte's touch was deemed to be deliberate. Say for example he'd tried to chest it back to the keeper, in Dunk stylee, and their 'offside' player had turned it in - it would have stood.
I'm not quite ready to believe there's any truth to any 'Agent Holgate' suggestions - but IF he really did want to scupper his loan club's chances, could there be any more perfect way of doing so, than to get himself sent off in the first few minutes of a game, in the process of taking out a...
Terrific performance - but astonishingly, with room for improvement...
There were a couple of poor corners, and he probably ought to have scored in the first half at 2-0, when the ball was parried to him eight yards out (a very similar chance to the one that Welbeck scored).