The Premier League explains West Ham's controversial winning penalty that angered Manchester United
West Ham beat Manchester United with a deeply controversial late penalty on Sunday, leaving the Red Devils fuming.
Matthijs de Ligt was found guilty of fouling Danny Ings in injury time after a lengthy VAR review.
The defender became enraged when the VAR review appeared on the VAR screen, arguing with the referee that Ings appeared to have the ball in his hand.
But despite what appeared to be minimal contact, West Ham were awarded a penalty, raising immediate questions about why VAR decided to get involved.
Jarrod Bowen stepped up to send a powerful shot into the bottom right corner to seal the 2-1 victory.
Explaining the decision, the Premier League Match Center posted on social media: “The referee did not award a penalty to West Ham for a challenge by De Ligt on Ings. VAR deemed there was sufficient contact to the lower leg of Ings and recommended a penalty. -Field review. “The referee overturned his original decision and awarded a penalty.”
The defeat further increased the pressure on Red Devils coach Erik ten Hag, who was left baffled by the VAR's decision to intervene at such a crucial moment.
He said: “It was very difficult to watch. Before the season there were instructions that VAR only interfered with clear and obvious errors. “That is definitely not a clear and obvious error by the referee on the field.
“More frustrations, but I can't do anything with that. They don't accumulate points and that's what we have to do. We have to look in the mirror, we didn't score in a good game on our side. We created a lot of chances.” And you don't concede anything, but when you lose like this it's a bad feeling.”
The Red Devils took eight shots in the first half against the Hammers, including Diogo Dalot's candidate for 'miss of the season' – But the score remained 0-0 until the 74th minute.
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But instead of Man United finally scoring against a Hammers team that had only managed two league wins this season, it was the home team that struck first.
Former Leeds striker Crysencio Summerville scored after Man United failed to clear their lines, and the West Ham star took off his shirt to celebrate after scoring against his old rivals.
However, Manchester United were quick to hit back.
Casemiro took advantage of a header from Joshua Zirkzee, who had barely been on the pitch for two minutes, with nine minutes left.
However, it was to be the Hammers' day in the end as Man United suffered their fourth league defeat of the season, leaving them 14th in the table.
Ironically, it leaves them tied on points with West Ham, which places them above them in the table.
Man United have now won just one game in eight in all competitions, leaving Ten Hag under huge pressure.
While the Dutchman cannot be blamed for his players wasting opportunities on the pitch, his form leaves a lot to be desired.
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Their only win in this period came against Brentford, with the Bees originally taking the lead only to squander their lead when Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund scored to make it 2-1.
Even the Hull City owner told talkSPORT that I would have already fired Ten Hag.
The former Ajax boss may have won the League Cup and FA Cup since taking charge, but the decision to give him a one-year contract extension took until almost three months after the FA Cup victory. .
The Dutchman recently criticized the media for writing 'fairy tales' and 'lies' about his work.
He has achieved a third place and a tenth place, but instead of moving up the table in his third season, his team has plummeted.
The Red Devils will face Leicester in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday.
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