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Manchester United manager, Erik ten Hag, has blamed the controversial penalty awarded against his team for their 2-1 defeat at West Ham.
Jarrod Bowen scored from the spot late in the second half at the London Stadium.
Crysencio Summerville opened the scoring with his first goal for the Hammers before Casemiro levelled with a header.
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The hosts then scored the winner through Bowen.
Referee David Coote did not award the spot-kick after Matthijs De Ligt clashed with Danny Ings.
But VAR Michael Oliver advised Coote to review the incident on the pitchside monitor.
“Three times this season we feel injustice,” Ten Hag told the BBC.
“We have to score, we created so many chances. We should’ve been two or three up.
“Second half we were forcing it but we allowed them into the game. When you are losing 1-0 you need a big personality and character of the team and [they] showed resilience to get back into it. Unfair and unjust the way we conceded the penalty.”
In other news, the Confederation of African Football president, Patrice Motsepe, has agreed to seek re-election in March 2025 following widespread endorsements from numerous CAF Member Association Presidents and Zonal Union Presidents.
The South African billionaire, who was first elected as CAF president on March 12, 2021, in Rabat, Morocco, made his re-election bid public on Friday after months of speculations about his future.
Motsepe’s current tenure has seen significant financial improvements in CAF’s operations, as revealed during the 46th CAF Ordinary Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday.
However, the incumbent president faces potential competition from the Egyptian Football Association’s candidate, Hany Abo Rida, a FIFA counsel member, who has received strong backing from his federation.
“Hany Abo Rida is a strong candidate to assume the presidency of the Confederation of African Football,” EFA member Ehab El-Komy told television channel Sada El-Baled.
“Hany Abo Rida is a great value in football, and whoever wants anything from Infantino should go first to Abo Rida. He is capable of leading the African Union in the coming years,” he added.
