It does. Just check any sports news website. If you tell the press that your 70 million player does not even train well, this is obviously a much bigger story than any questionable penalty. Mistakes by referees happen every week, star players not training well do not happen very often.
There was a lot of press given to him complaining about VAR. Not as much, but it was certainly a talking point.
He can be talking about the penalty for 90 minutes with the press, and then just tell them "by the way, one of our players has killed someone". Do you think that anyone in the press will mention the penalty? Of course not! The biggest story always wins. It is elementary. ETH gave them a bigger story so they ignored the penalty. What did he expect?
They've talked about the VAR incident. I've read multiple articles about it today. You're acting as if it's not even been mentioned or discussed.
If he has tapped it too far, why does Gabriel then have to intervene? He could just let the ball go to Saliba.
This is a good point. The reputation of the players involved definitely is part of the decision being made. No way Maguire, or even say Lindelof get away with that.
Ten Hag: “It’s not offside. Wrong angle. Penalty on Hojlund. Foul on Evans.”
Making contact with his arm wasn't going to be called a foul (which would be difficult if Hojland was in front of him) and his progress is impeded once he is actually grabbed by Gabriel. This isn't really a big deal. It was never going to be called. This back and forth is boring.
You're a moron who ignores posts that clearly refute your moronic argument. It's either that our you're a troll.
Hopefully, you can mature enough to have disagreements without name-calling. I haven't seen any posts that refute anything I've said. Cheers.
Yes, of course, they talked about the penalty. Look at the BBC page for Man Utd. They have a single line about the penalty and two full articles about Sancho.
Well it's similar to the situation where the ball has already been played when onana body slammed into another player in the first game and everyone made a huge deal out of it, here it looks like Hojlund would still have the possession of the ball had Gabriel not pushed him aside and then dragged him downwards.
You're an idiot. That's not name-calling that's just what you are.
It's not that serious and quite odd to be this emotional on a football forum over a non-penalty decision. I hope you are alright and work out whatever is bothering you.
Heard them briefly touch on it on Talksport. Quickly brushed over saying managers complain about decisions they don’t get and then went on about the Wolves penalty yet again. There is clear media bias when it comes to United VAR decisions.
You’d have to show me some examples because I rarely see this interaction in the box.
So because the team have shortcomings we shouldn't be annoyed when we don't get awarded what looked like penalty
Literally every corner kick.
Because the officials don't have any effect on the game?
When it becomes the default position for not winning a game by being better, it’s shit.
Is it anyone's default position though?
Of course you can win the game if an official makes a mistake. We’ve done it before.
Just because we've done it before doesn't mean it will always happen. Even if it did, why should it be made a harder task by bad officiating?
Apparently rugby-tackling players is fine.
There’s debate on here, that’s for sure, and you could be right that it was a foul. I would much rather we were debating this from a winning position rather than the old “we wuz robbed” one.
