Man Utd were denied victory at Bournemouth after a controversial decision by referee Stuart Attwell that left Michael Carrick furious.
Bruno Fernandes and Stuart Attwell
Manchester United were unhappy with Stuart Attwell at Bournemouth
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Michael Carrick branded the decision not to give Manchester United a second penalty in their 2-2 draw at Bournemouth "astonishing" and said he was baffled at the failure to penalise Adrien Truffert for a pull on Amad.
United took the lead from the spot when Alex Jimenez was adjudged to have pulled the shirt of Matheus Cunha, but when Truffert grabbed Amad's arm and pulled him down, referee Stuart Attwell waved the appeal away.
To add insult to injury, Bournemouth went up the other end and equalised within seconds when Ryan Christie scored from the edge of the box, before the Cherries then got a penalty when Harry Maguire grabbed Evanilson's arm, an incident similar to Truffert on Amad.
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Maguire was sent off for denying a goalscoring opportunity and Junior Kroupi scored the penalty to earn the hosts a share of the spoils and leave Carrick incensed.
"My first [thought] is he definitely got one of them wrong, because he's given one penalty for the same thing that he's not given one as a two-armed grab," he said. "So the Matheus one, he gives, the second one on Amad he doesn't, which is, I think, almost identical, really, two hands on someone in the box, and they go over and they're in control of the ball.
"For me, it's two penalties, but it'd be interesting to see which one he acknowledges is wrong, whether the one we got or the one that we didn't get. And it's a huge moment.
"You don't give it, they go down to the other end and score and then it needs to be a bigger penalty to overturn just because they scored when actually it's a penalty and it should be a penalty if you've already given one.
"So a bit baffling, really, to make sense of that. And because they score, then the game flips a little bit and changes and then we defended with the 10 men after all that very well and the boys coming off the bench and finishing the game really strong.
"So that was a big positive for us to take the point in the end because we've seen them win late here so we take that, but the penalty one's just astonishing, I have to say, one of them must be wrong."
Carrick said he hadn't spoken to Attwell to seek clarification on the decisions and said an apology after the event from Howard Webb and PGMOL would be irrelevant.
"I haven't spoken to him," he said. "Once it's done, it's done, you know, I think you can have all the conversations in the world about, could it have been this, could it have been that?
"I just think, you know, surely that's for VAR. If they've already just given one and agreed that that was a penalty. Surely the next one should be a straightforward one? As I say, one of them has got to be right, or they're wrong or whatever. Do you know what I mean?
"But whether they apologise or don't, it's done now. But listen, we're finishing taking a point, I think we can take a lot from that."
Maguire looked furious when he was sent off and shouted at the fourth official on the way off, but Carrick said he hadn't yet spoken to him and hadn't reviewed the incident.
"I've not really spoken to Harry, to be honest," he said. "And I've not seen the actual incidents back, but listen, if he's gone past him and he's clean on goal and he's put an arm on him, then he's given a penalty for that.
"If he's put an arm on him, Amad, and he doesn't give a penalty for that again, that's what's happening when it's all in the same game, really, and there's so many eyes on it and you can intervene and we didn't get two of them. They went against us. So it is what it is. I thought we coped with that really well, as I've said, so I think I'd rather take the positive from it tonight than that."