Man Utd to make formal complaint over decisions

Manchester United will make a formal complaint to referees' body Professional Game Match Officials Limited over what they feel was clear inconsistency in the decisions during Friday night's 2-2 draw at Bournemouth. United were left furious about "astonishing" and "baffling" refereeing decisions as two penalties were awarded and one was not in a match that saw the Cherries come from behind twice. Harry Maguire's special day - following his England recall - was spoiled by his sending off at Vitality Stadium, but it was the performance of the officials that had United fuming.

Maguire, who will return to the England squad for the first time in almost two years for upcoming friendlies with Uruguay and Japan, was sent off for pulling back Evanilson inside the box as Manchester United led 2-1 with 10 minutes to go. Junior Kroupi subsequently scored the penalty but the decision not to award Manchester United an earlier spot-kick left interim manager Michael Carrick furious - especially after his side had also been awarded a penalty for what he deemed to be a similar challenge earlier in the match. The penalty the visitors were not given came when Amad Diallo appeared to be pulled back inside the box by Adrien Truffert, with Manchester United leading 1-0 after Bruno Fernandes' penalty.

Director of Football Jason Wilcox intends to speak with referees' chief Howard Webb for an explanation and to express the club's fury. Carrick, who described the decisions made as "baffling", said: "My first [thought] is he definitely got one of them wrong, because he's given one penalty for the same thing that he's not given one as a two-armed grab. "So the Matheus Cunha one, he gives, the second one on Amad he doesn't, which is, I think, almost identical, really, two hands on someone in the box, and they go over and they're in control of the ball.

"Massive moment and I don't understand how you can give one and not the other - it's crazy. It's as obvious as you can get. "It's clear, if that's what he believes is a penalty to start with then the second one has to be.