Forest coach Cooper laments ´actually poor error´ after Maguire escapes penalty for handball

Nottingham Forest head coach Steve Cooper described the choice to not award his group a penalty in opposition to Manchester United as a “really poor error”.

United went on to win 2-0 on the City Ground on Sunday because of objectives from Antony and Diogo Dalot, however not earlier than that they had escaped a handball shout with the sport nonetheless goalless.

A Forest nook within the nineteenth minute struck the outstretched arm of Harry Maguire – who had already been booked – on the far submit, with the hosts instantly interesting to referee Simon Hooper for a penalty.

After session with the VAR, Hooper waved away the claims.

“I personally think it’s a penalty,” Cooper informed Sky Sports after the sport. “It’s a extremely, actually poor error.

“The referee ought to see it, however I perceive why he hasn’t due to the angle and the quantity of gamers. But why the VAR hasn’t will not be proper, in my view.

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“It’s one other second that can put large scrutiny on VAR. There’s been a variety of unfavorable selections over the previous couple of weeks, and that’s one other one.

“I’m not going to face right here and say it’s the explanation we didn’t win the sport, though it could possibly be a second yellow and a pink for Maguire, and we may have scored the penalty and gone 1-0 up.

“It has a huge impact, I’m actually biting my tongue as a result of I don’t wish to use it as an excuse for why we misplaced the sport or why we’re within the league place we’re in; it’s not.

“But it’s a bad error. How [VAR] Andy Madley hasn’t seen it needs looking at.”

The incident got here only a week after quite a lot of questionable selections from officers in Tottenham’s 2-1 win over Brighton and Hove Albion, after which refereeing physique PGMOL issued an apology to the Seagulls.

Forest stay within the Premier League relegation zone on objective distinction behind Seventeenth-placed Everton and have now gone 10 video games and not using a win.