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Bryan Mbeumo appealed for a penalty during Manchester United’s game against West Ham.(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nBryan Mbeumo appealed for a penalty for Manchester United in their Premier League clash with West Ham.<\/p>\n
21:37, 04 Dec 2025Updated 22:02, 04 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Bryan Mbeumo appealed for a penalty during Manchester United’s game against West Ham.(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Gary Neville felt it was the correct decision not to award Manchester United<\/a> a penalty after Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> went down in the area. The Cameroon international latched on to a superb pass from Bruno Fernandes before facing up West Ham defender Jean-Clair Todibo and going down.<\/p>\n Old Trafford<\/a> appealed for a spot-kick during the latter stages of their showdown against their visitors from East London<\/a> when Mbeumo and Todibo appeared to tangle in the box. The French centre-back dangled a leg and, as Mbeumo went to beat him, he was felled – leading to United protesting for a spot-kick.<\/p>\n However, replays appeared to show ex-Nice defender, Todibo, pulling his leg away after resisting the temptation to try nicking the ball off the United forward.<\/p>\n There was no advantage from referee Andrew Kitchen with the home side seeing a shot deflect behind Alphonse Areola’s goal for a corner kick.<\/p>\n Neville in turn admitted that there was no contact made by the Hammers’ defender.<\/p>\n “He got really close, the referee,” Neville said.<\/p>\n “It looks like Todibo just stuck a leg out, but did he make contact?<\/p>\n “He just stuck a leg out there, but he pulled it back.<\/p>\n “Mbeumo goes down. He just pulls that leg away there, he thinks about it, having a nibble.”<\/p>\n After an eventless first half, United broke the deadlock just before the hour mark. Diogo Dalot expertly finished to beat Hammers’ shot-stopper Areola.<\/p>\n A win would have taken Ruben Amorim’s team up to fifth<\/a> in the Premier League<\/a> table and to within a point of the Champions League<\/a> places.<\/p>\n However, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side equalised with seven minutes of normal time remaining through Soungoutou Magassa.<\/p>\n The midfielder was in the right place at the right time to finish after Jarrod Bowen’s header was cleared off the line by Noussair Mazraoui.<\/p>\n United were forced to settle for a point in the end, on another frustrating evening at Old Trafford for Amorim.<\/p>\n It meant they failed to take the opportunity the move into the top five and go one step closer to breaking into the top-four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Mbeumo appealed for a penalty for Manchester United in their Premier League clash with West Ham. 21:37,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[842,218,33718,1441,101,56,54,55,10091],"class_list":["post-299695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-bryan-mbeumo","tag-football","tag-gary-neville","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-ham-united-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}