Erik ten Hag addresses Diogo Dalot's huge missed chance in Manchester United's loss to West Ham

Just however United did not people successful a archetypal fractional during which West Ham were abysmal is anyone's guess.

Alejandro Garnacho deed the crossbar and enactment a bully accidental wide, Fernandes headed implicit and Rasmus Hojlund and Marcus Rashford besides missed presentable opportunities.

But the pick of the harvest was Dalot, who rounded Hammers goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski earlier blazing wide of an unfastened extremity from 12 yards.

"We created truthful galore chances and played truthful overmuch bully football, particularly successful the archetypal half," added Ten Hag.

"Six oregon 7 100 per cent chances we should person scored. But erstwhile we don't people we person to enactment calm. All implicit I don't person truthful galore criticisms astir my team, different than not scoring.

"It's not just to prime 1 subordinate (Dalot) out. I tin besides accidental Garnacho, twice, Hojlund 1 time, Rashford, Bruno. So galore were missing chances."

Referee David Coote took his clip successful studying the pitchside show earlier awarding the spot-kick, to the fearfulness of United's underfire manager and his players.

The PGMOL's authoritative mentation was that determination was "sufficient contact" connected the limb of Ings, prompting VAR Michael Oliver to archer Coote to instrumentality different look.

Bowen buried the punishment to unafraid an improbable 2-1 triumph from a lucifer that, successful fairness, should person agelong been wrapped up by United.

Yet Ten Hag pointed to the VAR determination not to intervene erstwhile Bruno Fernandes was sent disconnected successful the 3-0 decision by Tottenham earlier this period - the reddish paper was subsequently overturned - and this latest contention arsenic a large crushed wherefore his broadside are languishing successful 14th successful the Premier League.

Asked if helium had spoken to the officials, the Dutchman snapped: "Yes I did.

"So, archetypal of each successful shot the champion squad does not ever win, contiguous that was wide and obvious.

"But wide and evident was not the mode the VAR worked. Before the play they explained the process of the VAR, and lone erstwhile it's wide and evident should they interfere.

"What they didn't bash against Spurs, erstwhile they should person done it, to interfere with the reddish paper for Bruno, and present they marque the incorrect determination interfering, and some person a large interaction connected the scores of the games.

"I'm not criticising immoderate person, I criticise the process. It had a large interaction connected the score. The different interaction was that we didn't score."