Head coach Carrick also expressed his anger after the match. He believed that if one foul deserved a penalty, then so should the other. The fact that it was a similar foul, inside the penalty area, made the referee’s objections even more difficult to accept.
“Just the decision for the penalty, I don’t understand how you can be one and the other and give one and not. Mental,” he told Sky Sports. “Massive. Absolutely massive. That’s what VAR was for. Clean it up and consistency. Surely whatever they think, if one’s been given, there are enough people to decide that it’s the same as the first. It’s two different decisions, so a bit baffling really.