Why Andre Onana got away with red card in Man Utd's win over Bodo/Glimt

Andre Onana was fortunate to debar being sent disconnected for handball successful the closing stages of Manchester United's 3-2 triumph implicit Bodo/Glimt successful the Europa League connected Thursday night

Manchester United marked Ruben Amorim’s archetypal lucifer astatine Old Trafford with a victory, but their triumph implicit Bodo/Glimt could person gone precise differently.

United overcame the Norwegian broadside 3-2 successful the Europa League connected Thursday nighttime acknowledgment to a brace from Rasmus Hojlund and a tap-in from Alejandro Garnacho. But it was acold from straightforward, with Bodo taking a 2-1 pb pursuing immoderate shaky defending from the location side.

The rocky show besides contained a portion of bully luck involving United goalkeeper Andre Onana. In the 76th minute, Onana charged retired of his country to effort and tidy up a shot implicit the apical of the defence aft Casemiro was easy beaten.

The Cameroon planetary executed a tackle connected the Bodo striker, but was forced to spell into different with Jens Petter Hauge. He appeared to person won the shot cleanly with a descent tackle, but the replay showed that helium had, successful fact, utilized his manus to travel distant with the ball.

Bodo’s players each raised their arms to entreaty for a foul, but referee Lawrence Visser waved distant their protests and United played on, going up the different extremity of the pitch, wherever Garnacho spurned a large accidental to marque it 4-2.

VAR checked the incidental for a imaginable reddish paper against Onana, but contempt seeing that the United keeper touched the shot with his hand, helium escaped punishment due to the fact that it was deemed accidental. It was a changeable of luck for Amorim and his players and Bodo made their feelings wide post-match.

“I consciousness Jens tries to resistance the shot past Onana and past it hits his hand,” Bodo/Glimt skipper Patrick Berg told NRK. “He (the referee) explained that determination is simply a regularisation that states that the shot tin deed the manus if it is connected the crushed arsenic a support, past it does not matter.”

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Bodo subordinate Hakon Evjen added: “It looked similar helium takes it with his manus present and then, whether determination is enactment oregon not. It is an unfastened people for Jens astatine 20 metres, truthful it is astatine slightest debatable.”

Amorim was blessed to get disconnected the people astatine Old Trafford with a triumph but admitted it was acold from cleanable from his side. “Like a existent ride,” helium told TNT Sports. “We started well, but past suffered 2 goals successful 2 transitions. I similar the mode the players tried to play our game.

“Sometimes we won the shot and person had problems successful the past giving the shot distant excessively overmuch – the mindset is keeping the ball. They are truly trying and I deliberation we deserved the win.”

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