Ruben Amorim shows true colours with response to Man Utd's VAR controversy vs Leicester

Manchester United are into the 5th circular of the FA Cup aft coming from down to bushed Leicester, with Harry Maguire's arguable stoppage-time extremity the difference

Ruben Amoim admitted it was unfair that Manchester United’s last-gasp victor vs Leicester wasn’t disallowed.

The Red Devils squeaked into the 5th circular of the FA Cup aft coming from down to bushed the struggling Foxes astatine Old Trafford. Ex-Leicester defender Harry Maguire scored the decisive - and arguable - decider successful stoppage time, despite replays showing helium was intelligibly offside.

However, with VAR not successful cognition successful the aboriginal rounds of the competition, the extremity was allowed to stand, leaving their beaten opponents furious. And Amorim insisted helium had sympathies with Ruud van Nistelrooy and his team, having benefitted from a mediocre officiating decision.

He said: "With VAR it's not a goal. I deliberation it's important to person VAR due to the fact that it's just for the game. It's hard to suffer similar that with an offside play. But we merit a small spot of luck."

Defeat increases the unit connected United fable Van Nistelrooy, who bemoaned the information that technology shouldn’t person been needed to spot what was a comparatively wide offside.

“We were not defeated successful Fergie time, we were defeated successful offside time. Decisions similar these, astatine our level, are hard to swallow,” helium said. “This [VAR] wasn't necessary. With VAR, you person for a mates of centimetres, but this was fractional a metre, wide successful a line.

“It's a hard 1 to take, due to the fact that the squad deserved a gully successful the end. If you get extra-time and enactment successful the game, you ne'er cognize what happens.

“It was a precise bully squad performance, we did truly good pressing United, connected the shot we were truly unchangeable and we deserved to spell successful 1-0 up astatine half-time.

“We besides deserved to spell into extra-time and spell for the conflict and possibly penalties.”

Leicester had taken the pb successful the archetypal fractional done Bobby De Cordova-Reid, earlier Joshua Zirkzee equalised midway done the second. And the crippled looked acceptable to spell to other clip - and perchance penalties - earlier Maguire’s contentious victor successful the 93rd minute.

"That's a mediocre decision, the linesman [assistant referee] has got to spot that,” ex-United skipper Roy Keane added connected ITV. "You person got to get those large decisions right."

Ian Wright agreed, saying: "Look wherever the linesman is. That impacts him [Van Nistelrooy] that impacts his managerial vocation due to the fact that it's different loss.

"That would person been a truly large assurance booster for them. But they person to assistance themselves, due to the fact that of the officials."

United tin present proceed the defence of the FA Cup they won nether Erik 10 Hag past term, but dissimilar his predecessor, Amorim insists that glory astatine Wembley won’t salvage an different miserable season.

United presently find themselves marooned successful the bottommost fractional of the table, person to the relegation portion than the bottommost three.

Asked if an FA Cup triumph could prevention his maiden run successful charge, Amorim said: "I don't spot things similar that. I cannot absorption conscionable connected redeeming the play with a cup, its not the mode I spot football, not the mode I spot Manchester United.

"Everything is results and performance. I'm not reasoning astir the extremity of the season, oregon the last astatine the extremity of the season, I don't attraction astir that. At the infinitesimal it is not bully enough, we determination guardant to the adjacent stage, but contiguous was not bully enough."

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