Man Utd made a complaint to PGMOL after being denied a penalty in their 2-2 draw against Bournemouth but a new report has claimed the decision was right.
Manchester United had to settle for the draw against Bournemouth
Manchester United were furious with the officials at Bournemouth(Image: Rob Newell - CameraSport via Getty Images)
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The Premier League's Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel has ruled that the officials were right to deny Amad a penalty during Manchester United's controversial draw at Bournemouth before the international break.
United were so incensed by the officiating at the Vitality Stadium that they lodged an official complaint with the referees' body, Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL), but the five-man panel has delivered its ruling and backed the decision.
Amad went down inside the area midway through the second half when Bournemouth defender Adrien Truffert grabbed his arm. Referee Stuart Attwell waved away the penalty appeals and the Cherries went down the other end and equalised seconds later.
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United had already been awarded one penalty for a shirt pull on Matheus Cunha and they conceded a spot kick of their own and had Harry Maguire sent off for putting his arm across Evanilson, an incident that looked similar to the one involving Amad and Truffert.
It left Michael Carrick and United officials furious at the end of the 2-2 draw, but the KMI panel voted 3-2 in favour of Attwell's decision and felt that VAR Craig Pawson was also right not to intervene.
According to BBC Sport, the panel felt that "whilst Truffert runs a risk, the contact made was not impactful and therefore below the high threshold for a foul", and that Pawson's decision not to intervene was "in keeping with the high threshold for VAR overturns".
Carrick called the decision not to give a penalty "astonishing" after the game and couldn't hide his frustration in his post-match press conference.
"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," 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. 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."
The KMI panel backed the penalty given for Alex Jimenez's pull on Cunha 5-0 and the decision to send Maguire off for his foul on Evanilson 4-1.
The fallout to the game has continued this week with Maguire being charged by the FA for his outburst at the fourth official on his way off the pitch.
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