Manchester United were denied what they felt was a clear penalty against Bournemouth on Friday night and they are now planning on complaining to Professional Game Match Official Limited (PGMOL)
Manchester United were fuming with the officials
Manchester United were fuming with the officials
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Manchester United are to make a formal complaint to PGMOL today after being left angry at the decision not to give a penalty when they felt Amad was fouled against Bournemouth.
United believe the winger was clearly wrestled to the ground by Adrien Truffer in the penalty area, soon after they had been awarded a penalty for a similar incident when Alex Jimenez pulled the shirt of Matheus Cunha.
To rub salt into the wounds, Bournemouth went up the other end and equalised through Ryan Christie, and then got a penalty later in the game for a foul by Harry Maguire on Evanilson that looked almost identical to the incident involving Amad and Truffert, which Stuart Attwell waved away. Maguire was subsequently sent off.
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The Manchester Evening News has been told that United officials were "furious" at what they considered another costly VAR blunder and cannot understand why similar penalty incidents within the same game were treated differently.
Attwell's decision to dismiss Maguire also means United will now be without the 33-year-old centre-back for their game against Leeds.
Michael Carrick said after the 2-2 draw at the Vitality Stadium that he felt the decision not to give Amad a penalty was "astonishing" and he has been backed by club chiefs, who will now file a complaint to PGMOL boss Howard Webb.
United also plan to raise the issue of nine minutes being added on as their 10-man tried to hold on to a draw. Club chiefs were left bemused at how the officials had come to the conclusion to add that much time on and believe excessive added time has been a theme throughout the season.
United's frustration with referees has been bubbling away for some time this season, with the decision at Bournemouth the latest to lead them to complain to PGMOL.
They were angry that Brentford defender Nathan Collins wasn't sent-off for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity at the Gtech Community Stadium earlier this season, in an incident not dissimilar to the one for which Maguire was dismissed on Friday.
There was also anger at not getting a penalty against Wolves and the decision to disallow Lisandro Martinez's goal in a 2-2 draw at Burnley in January, with Attwell again the referee at Turf Moor.
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Speaking after the draw at Bournemouth, Carrick said: "My first (thought) is he definitely got one of them wrong, because he's give one penalty for for the same thing that he's not give one as a two-armed grab. 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. And 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."