Michael Carrick has questioned referee Stuart Attwell’s decision not to award a penalty to Manchester United following their 2-2 draw at Bournemouth in Friday night’s Premier League clash.
With the Red Devils 1-0 up after Bruno Fernandes opened the scoring early in the second half, Amad Diallo was later brought down inside the box by Adrien Truffert, prompting loud appeals for another penalty.
However, Attwell waved away appeals with Bournemouth going on to score at the other end from the resulting attack through Ryan Christie.
Speaking after the encounter, Carrick was unimpressed by the officiating and stated that his side were denied an obvious penalty kick which could have given the chance to move two-goal ahead on the night.
“He’s definitely got one of them wrong because he’s given one penalty for us for the same thing that he’s not given one,” Carrick revealed.
“There’s a two-arm grab. The Matheus one he gives, the second one on Amad he doesn’t, which I think is almost identical, really. If you have 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.
“It will be interesting to see which one they acknowledge is wrong: the one we got or the one we didn’t get.”
Manchester United took the lead almost immediately when James Hill headed into his own net, but Harry Maguire was then sent off for a foul on Evanilson.
Eli Junior Kroupi converted the resulting spot-kick to level the scoreline for a second time in the clash, with the match going on to end in a 2-2 result.
“It’s a huge moment. They don’t give it, they go down the other end and score and then it becomes all of a sudden, ‘oh, 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”, Carrick added.
“It’s baffling really to make sense of that. And because they score, the game flips a little bit and changes.
“We defended with the 10 men after all that very well. But the penalty one is just astonishing, I have to say. One of them must be wrong”, he concluded.
Manchester United missed the chance to close the gap on second-placed Manchester City, but will remain third after the match-day regardless of results elsewhere in the league.
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