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Former referee Keith Hackett believes Aaron Wan-Bissakaought to have received a red card in the dying moments of Manchester United's draw with West Ham. The second half contained all the game's significant incidents, with Diogo Dalot and Soungoutou Magassa finding the net, while Wan-Bissaka was lucky to escape a dismissal.

United opened the scoring shortly before the hour when Dalot struck home after controlling a mis-hit from Casemiro inside West Ham's penalty area. The away side levelled matters in the 83rd minute when Magassa converted a rebound after Jarrod Bowen's header from a set piece was cleared off the goal line by Noussair Mazraoui.

Shortly after the Hammers' equaliser, Wan-Bissaka was late with a sliding challenge on Patrick Dorgu, but as United retained possession, referee Andrew Kitchen waved play on. Mere moments earlier, he had cautioned the former United full-back for catching Mason Mount with his studs.

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The choice to let play continue following Wan-Bissaka's second careless tackle has been criticised by United supporters. They believe he ought to have been shown a second yellow card, and Hackett shares this view.

He told Football Insider: "Whilst I think that Andrew Kitchen had a very good game, I would like him to review the two Wan-Bissaka challenges, particularly the last one. On a yellow card, you put in a reckless challenge, he should have had a second yellow followed by the red."

"He's a lucky guy. Andrew, you've got to keep focused up until the final whistle."

The draw has lifted United to eighth position, though it will be viewed as a squandered chance given that victory would have propelled them to fifth, leapfrogging Crystal Palace, whom they defeated last weekend.

Predictably, Ruben Amorim was visibly displeased during his post-match media briefing, with the United manager particularly incensed by claims that performances had stagnated or regressed.

He said: "It's not going backwards. The results are going backwards. We had some moments. That can happen.

"You were talking about when we had that run that team was really perfect and saying we are not that far from being in the perfect moment. We are really inconsistent.

"But if you look at the goal, 83 minutes, we have a long ball, we have everything under control and we need to do better."

United will get the opportunity to bounce back immediately from that disappointment when they take on the Premier League's bottom side Wolves next Monday evening.

Amorim anticipates having Matthijs de Ligt available again for the encounter, with Ayden Heaven, who deputised for the Dutch defender against the Hammers, substituted at the interval.

A silver lining for Amorim and United was Matheus Cunha's comeback, with additional encouragement coming as neither Dorgu nor Casemiro collected yellow cards that would trigger a ban for the Molineux fixture.