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Manchester United are set to lodge an official complaint with PGMOL on Saturday, after being left fuming at the decision not to award a penalty when they felt Amad was brought down against Bournemouth. United believe the winger was blatantly dragged to the turf by Adrien Truffert inside the box, shortly after they had been given a spot-kick for a comparable incident when Alex Jimenez tugged the shirt of Matheus Cunha.

To make matters worse, Bournemouth marched straight up the pitch and levelled through Ryan Christie, before being handed a penalty later in the match for a challenge by Harry Maguire on Evanilson that appeared virtually identical to the incident involving Amad and Truffert, which Stuart Attwell dismissed. Maguire was then shown red.

The Manchester Evening News has been informed that United officials were "furious" at what they regarded as another damaging VAR error and are baffled as to why comparable penalty incidents within the same match were handled differently. Attwell's decision to send off Maguire also means United will now be deprived of the 33-year-old centre-half for their fixture against Leeds United.

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Michael Carrick said following Friday evening's 2-2 draw at the Vitality Stadium that he considered the choice not to award Amad a penalty "astonishing" and he has received support from club officials, who will now lodge a formal complaint to PGMOL chief, Howard Webb.

United also intend to question why nine minutes were tacked on as their 10 men attempted to preserve a draw. Club bosses were left puzzled at how the match officials had reached the decision to add that amount of time and feel excessive stoppage time has been a recurring pattern throughout the campaign.

United's exasperation with match officials has been simmering for some time this term, with the ruling at Bournemouth the most recent to prompt them to raise concerns with PGMOL. They were furious that Brentford defender Nathan Collins wasn't dismissed for preventing a clear goalscoring chance at the Gtech Community Stadium earlier this season, in an incident not unlike the one for which Maguire was sent off on Friday.

There was also frustration at not being awarded a spot-kick against Wolves and the ruling to chalk off Lisandro Martinez's goal in a 2-2 stalemate at Burnley in January, with Attwell once more the referee at Turf Moor. Following the draw at Bournemouth, Carrick said: "My first (thought) is he definitely got one of them wrong, because he's give one penalty for for the same thing that he's not give one as a two-armed grab.

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"So the Matheus 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. For me, it's two penalties, but it'd be interesting to see which one he acknowledges is wrong, whether the one we got or the one that we didn't get.

"And it's a huge moment. And you don't give it, they go down to the other end and score and then it needs to be a bigger penalty to overturn just because they scored when actually it's a penalty and it should be a penalty if you've already given one.

"So a bit baffling, really, to make sense of that. And because they score, then the game flips a little bit and changes and then we defended with the 10 men after all that, very well and the boys coming off the bench and finishing the game really strong.

"So that was a big positive for us to take the point in the end because we've seen them win late here so we take that, but the penalty one's just astonishing, I have to say, one of them must be wrong."

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