United’s Fernandes: Refer to VAR, never a crimson
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Man United captain Bruno Fernandes disputes pivotal crimson card
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Sep 29, 2024, 02:47 PM ET
Bruno Fernandes said he didn’t need to be sent off for a foul reveal of affairs on James Maddison in Manchester United’s 3-0 Premier League loss to Tottenham on Sunday.
The United captain was shown a straight crimson in the Forty second minute at Light Trafford.
“No person needs to be sent off, it be no longer a merely feeling,” said Fernandes, who took the abnormal decision of stepping up for postmatch interviews following his dismissal. “I didn’t whisk alongside with the studs. Or no longer it’s never a crimson card. Even James Maddison when he will get up, he said it be no longer a crimson card.”
Fernandes regarded as if it would scoot when attempting a kind out in Tottenham’s half of — nonetheless then raised his foot and caught Maddison on the shin in a studs-up reveal of affairs.
Referee Christopher Kavanagh right away brandished a crimson card.
“If this is a crimson card, we desire to stare at many other incidents,” Fernandes said. “It’s a damaging. There isn’t any longer basic contact. If [the referee] needs to give me a yellow, I agree. I don’t observe why VAR doesn’t call him to the show mask.”
Fernandes became the fourth United captain to be sent off in a Premier League sport at Light Trafford, becoming a member of Roy Keane, Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney on that listing.
“I are searching to order, I left my teammates one man down,” Fernandes said. “I raise out relish all the things they did on the pitch, clearly was more durable for them. We didn’t originate the game well when it was 11 vs. 11, then clearly the final end result is on their aspect and we gain the reveal of affairs with the crimson card and clearly I mediate they did … thoroughly.
“They tried, clearly we conceded one more two dreams, nonetheless it completely was advanced to quilt all of the spaces. But I mediate [there are] many merely things that we are in a position to take away from this, [the] resilience of the crew was repeatedly there, and I am the truth is relaxed with the crew.”
United trailed 1-0 at halftime after Brennan Johnson‘s purpose in the third minute.
It purchased worse for United after the damage, when Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke also scored for Spurs.
Knowledge from The Associated Press was extinct on this story.
