Keith Hackett: Bruno Fernandes was fouled before Raphinha goal for Leeds v Manchester United
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Keith Hackett has insisted that Leeds should have had Raphinha’s goal disallowed in the 4-2 defeat against Manchester United.
Adam Forshaw won the ball back from Bruno Fernandes before the goal, an incident that was given the green light as fair play by VAR.
Hackett disagreed, and admitted that Paul Tierney should have awarded a foul before the ball hit the back of the net.
“I thought the referee handled the game extremely well,” he exclusively told MOT Leeds News.
“He measured his intervention fairly accurately, there were areas, however, that I’d question. The one thing I like about Tierney, in the heat, he remains calm.
“Let’s look at some of them, Fernandes was fouled in the build-up, that was a foul – simple. He should have seen that and acted on that, he didn’t and the goal resulted. I think he got that one wrong.”
Really?
Common sense has to be applied to this one, and Hackett did address the conditions, but this surely wasn’t a foul.
Forshaw won the ball, and of course, there was contact, but football has been a contact sport since it was created.
Fernandes doesn’t help himself either, with the Portuguese international rolling around on the floor every five minutes and whinging at every single decision.
Tierney didn’t give the foul, and neither did VAR, so there should be no complaints with numerous eyes reviewing the coming together.
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