‘It is crazy, we should have had a penalty’: Michael Carrick

Michael Carrick

Michael Carrick described the inconsistency of penalty decisions in Manchester United's 2-2 draw at Bournemouth as "crazy" after his side twice blew a lead on Friday.

United took the lead from the spot through Bruno Fernandes (61st min), but were denied a second penalty when Amad Diallo went down inside the box under a challenge from Adrien Truffert. Bournemouth immediately broke to equalise when Truffert teed up Ryan Christie (67th min) to draw level.

A James Hill own goal restored United's lead four minutes later before Harry Maguire was sent-off and conceded a penalty for bringing down Evanilson. The contact on the Brazilian striker was remarkably similar to that ignored by the officials for Truffert's challenge on Diallo. However, VAR did not intervene on any of the calls to ask referee Stuart Attwell to review his decisions.

"To give one and not give the other, I just can't get my head around. It's crazy. I can understand that decision [to send off Maguire] but we should have had another penalty and the game would have been different," said Carrick.

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