Manchester United Should Have Been Awarded Two Penalties

 

Jose Mourinho insists Manchester United should have been awarded two penalties in their 2-1 defeat by Manchester City on Saturday. City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo's rash challenge on Wayne Rooney inside the box went unpunished in the second half, and moments later Antonio Valencia's cross struck the elbow of Nicolas Otamendi in the area.  

He said “I am very disappointed with two decisions from Mark Clattenburg, because it's a penalty and a red card for Bravo. If you tell me that that's not a penalty and a red card, I'll tell you that for sure outside the box it is a free-kick and a red card. Inside the box it has to be the same, but obviously even the best referees make mistakes, and he made a big one. The second one is also a penalty, Otamendi is a penalty, you can tell me he has no intention, I think he has intention. The arm behind the body, he knows that the cross is not going in his face, it's going in his back, and he drops the elbow back, so two penalties.”

The United manager looked on helplessly as City took a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford through Kevin De Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho, before Zlatan Ibrahimovic halved the deficit before the break. He sprung up a surprise before kick-off, handing Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan their first Premier League starts of the season, before taking them both off at half-time. The Portuguese boss admitted he had made a mistake with his selection after the game, and could only blame himself.