Jarrod Bowen rubs salt in Erik ten Hag's wounds with admission over Man Utd penalty

West Ham guardant Jarrod Bowen believes that his broadside were fortunate to get the last-gasp punishment that helped them decision Manchester United astatine The London Stadium

Jarrod Bowen has suggested that the arguable precocious punishment that sunk Manchester United shouldn't person been given.

The West Ham attacker coolly converted from the spot to condemn the Red Devils to different chastening defeat, with the Hammers leapfrogging their Premier League rivals successful the table.

VAR authoritative Michael Oliver advised David Coote to spell to the show pursuing a coming unneurotic betwixt Matthijs de Ligt and Danny Ings. The telephone was soft, though, and slammed by Erik 10 Hag post-match.

And adjacent Bowen felt that determination was thing successful the incident, though helium had nary problems with compounding United's misery by dispatching said punishment successful stoppage-time.

He told Premier League Productions: “At the clip I saw [Danny] Ings got kicked and I deliberation they got kicked truthful I thought it wasn't a pen. I had a feeling it mightiness get fixed and past Cre [Somerville] had the shot and it was a waiting game.

“With penalties you person a regular you cognize wherever you're going. But erstwhile you're waiting you're reasoning shall I spell the different way? But I stuck with what I cognize and stepped up and wanted to dispatch and thankfully I did that.”

While Bowen admitted that helium felt the punishment telephone was harsh, Ten Hag was acold much brutal successful his ain property conference. The Dutchman insisted that his squad had present been screwed implicit 3 times by VAR this season, branding it an "injustice".

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He said: “Three times this play we consciousness injustice. Before the play determination was the acquisition astir VAR lone interfering successful wide and evident mistakes. That is decidedly not a wide and evident mistake from the connected tract referee.

“More frustrations but I tin bash thing with that. They don't cod points and that's what we person to do. We person to look successful the mirror, we don't people successful a bully crippled from our side.”

When helium was asked if he'd spoken with the officials, Ten Hag added: “I spoke with them. But the determination is made. There's nary mode backmost and that's football.

“That's a 3rd clip I person felt injustice successful the play and it has a large interaction connected our squad and connected our scores and wherever we are successful the table. It's not right.”

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