Against Tottenham, United were as awful as they could be, given away a goal under three minutes and conceding countless chances to Tottenham. The talking point of the game apart from how bad United were will be the red card shown to captain Bruno Fernandes, it was his first in United colors and many will argue that it was undeserved, while going into a tackle, Fernandes slipped and caught the spurs midfielder on his shin pads, refree Chris Kavanagh immediately showed the red card to the United skipper, but replays showed that he would have benefited from a second look via the pitch side monitors but the VAR did nothing to intervene.
Former Refree Keith Hackett Gives His Opinion
The red card will as usual bring a lot of controversy some believe that it was red and some believe it wasn't, however former PL refree Chief Keith Hackett has laid out his own view on the issue, and these were his words "This was a very unfortunate slip by Bruno Fernandes on a disastrous afternoon for Manchester United. I can see why the referee may have decided this was worthy of a red card, as Fernandes looked to challenge James Maddison with Tottenham on the breakaway. However, after multiple viewings, I lean towards a yellow card. I feel the refree Chris Kavanagh would have benefitted from being asked to look at the incident again on the pitch-side monitor. He was in an excellent postion and the VAR would go with the refree's call- there was no way they would overturn this as they would say it is not a clear and obvious error- but giving him the benefit of multiple replays and angles could have resulted in a different decision."
Fernandes Reaction
The United skipper himself has bemoaned his luck, insisting his innocence following the incident, " I don't go in with the studs, I take him with my ankle, it's clear foul but never a red card" he told Sky Sports reporters. "Even Maddison when he gets up, he said said it was a foul but never a red card. You can see it's never a red card and if it is, we have to look at many other incidents. I have many other incidents against me and I've never seen it come so quick as a red card. The contact is not that strong. If he wants to give me yellow because it's a counter-attack, I agree and I don't know why VAR doesn't call the refree to the screen."
United were poor throughout the first half and a red card to their best player and skipper snuffed out any chance of a comback, United did not help theirselves by conceding early in the second half, at that point the game was already gone.
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