Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer in agreement over Man Utd's huge penalty controversy

After Manchester United mislaid to West Ham United with 1 of the astir arguable punishment calls of the season, Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer some thought the aforesaid thing

Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer were some stunned by the eventual grant of West Ham United's game-winning punishment against Manchester United.

Julen Lopetegui's broadside piled much misery connected beleaguered United manager Erik 10 Hag by securing a precocious 2-1 location triumph implicit the Red Devils. However, Jarrod Bowen's precocious extremity from the spot came done 1 of the astir arguable VAR calls the Premier League has seen since its instauration successful 2019.

Danny Ings ran into a clump of United defenders to get to a escaped shot and collided with Matthijs de Ligt. After being asked by VAR's Michael Oliver to cheque the monitor, referee David Coote thought agelong and hard earlier deciding the erstwhile Bayern Munich defender had impeded Ings, contempt the information the summertime signing could not truly get retired of the way. United besides claimed Ings has handled the shot during the incident.

The determination consigned United to their 4th Premier League decision of the run – lone the bottommost 4 teams, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton person suffered much losses. However, Lineker and Shearer did person immoderate sympathy for Ten Hag's side, who besides missed a bucket load of wide chances to termination the crippled disconnected successful the archetypal half, but went successful astatine the interruption inactive goalless.

Speaking connected The Rest is Football podcast, Lineker said: “The punishment determination that won it for West Ham, I’ve looked astatine it astir 8 times and I can’t spot thing adjacent to resembling a foul, fto unsocial the information that the referee did not springiness it and the VAR turned it over. It looks similar a mistake to me."

Shearer replied: “You tin look astatine it different 80 times and you’re inactive not going to find anything. The referee did not springiness the penalty, past he’s being told by the VAR to spell and person a look astatine the screen.

“Okay, it’s baffling that 2 truly experienced referees tin look astatine that, peculiarly David Coote, the referee, who thinks I’ve made an implicit howler present and I americium going to spell with what the VAR is telling maine to. It was a unspeakable decision, it truly was.

“United volition look to that and blasted [the loss] connected that, but they’ve lone got themselves to blasted for the chances they missed successful the archetypal half. They should person been six of 7 up and that’s nary exaggeration, due to the fact that they were casual chances."

Lineker added: “With the information that the referee did not springiness it connected the transportation and this truly precocious barroom this season, I travel backmost to my point, I marque it each week.

“Suddenly the barroom gets lowered and a wide and evident mistake to 1 idiosyncratic is antithetic to another. I deliberation it’s astir unworkable successful galore ways unless they spell to an entreaty system."

After the match, Ten Hag described the determination arsenic an "injustice". The post-match furore implicit the punishment telephone was fierce, and the Premier League aboriginal released a connection clarifying wherefore it was given.

It read: "The VAR deemed determination was capable interaction connected Ings’ little limb and recommended an on-field review. The referee overturned his archetypal determination and awarded a penalty."

The effect means United are languishing successful 14th presumption successful the Premier League, 7 points distant from fourth-placed Aston Villa and 12 distant from table-toppers Manchester City.

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