{"id":357957,"date":"2026-03-21T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:08:07","slug":"manchester-united-to-file-complaint-over-penalty-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357957\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United to file complaint over penalty decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are set to make a formal complaint over the denial of a second penalty in Friday&#8217;s Premier League draw with Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the Red Devils will contact refereeing body the PGMO on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0320\/1564457-uniteds-maguire-sees-red-in-lively-draw-with-bournemouth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with club officials furious about a second-half incident involving Amad Diallo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diallo appeared to be pulled to the ground in the penalty area moments before Ryan Christie equalised for Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Stuart Attwell decided not to give the decision on the field and it was not overturned by VAR.<\/p>\n<p>A James Hill own goal put United back ahead but, to rub salt into the wound, Bournemouth were then awarded a penalty for a push by Harry Maguire, who was sent off, with the game ending 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time this season United have felt wronged by decision-making, including when Attwell disallowed a goal against Burnley, while they were also unhappy with nine minutes of added time.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s interim manager Michael Carrick branded Attwell\u2019s decision making &#8220;baffling&#8221; and &#8220;astonishing&#8221; in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"mwxf0zA9mac\">\n<p>He said he had not spoken to Attwell after the final whistle and will take no comfort if the PGMO admits a mistake was made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s kind of, once it\u2019s done, it\u2019s done,&#8221; said Carrick. &#8220;You can have all the conversations in the world about could it have been this, could it have been that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just think that\u2019s for VAR. If they\u2019ve already given one and agreed that that was a penalty, then surely the next one should be a straightforward one? After it, there\u2019s no point, whatever comes. Whether they apologise or not, it\u2019s done now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United remain in a strong position in terms of Champions League qualification but victory would have seen them close the gap to Manchester City to four points ahead of the international break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are set to make a formal complaint over the denial of a second penalty in Friday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-357957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}