Carrick slams referee over Martinez ‘hair pull’ purple card after Leeds stun Man Utd | EUROtoday

A livid Michael Carrick slammed the “absolutely shocking” resolution to ship off Lisandro Martinez for pulling Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s hair as “one of the worst I’ve seen” as Manchester United crashed to defeat to Leeds.

Noah Okafor scored twice within the first half as Leeds claimed their first league victory at Old Trafford for 45 years however Carrick was left seething on the dismissal of Martinez within the 56th minute for tugging Calvert-Lewin’s ponytail.

Carrick hinted that United would lodge an attraction towards the choice because the United head coach questioned how Martinez’s infringement may very well be classed as violent conduct when Calvert-Lewin escaped censure for a “forearm smash” on Leny Yoro within the lead as much as Leeds’ first objective.

“I thought the boys stayed positive and fought for everything in the second half after a shocking decision to send Licha off,” Carrick stated. “That’s two games in a row we’ve had those decisions go against us but that one was one of the worst I’ve seen.

“I have to say the [first Leeds] goal Leny Yoro gets a forearm smash in the back of his head so I don’t know how that doesn’t get overturned. It’s a clear forearm smashing the side of his head so that first goal shouldn’t stand.

“We’ve just got to be careful where the game’s going if we’re giving red cards for that [Martinez] but then you can do two arms in the face for the first goal and that’s deemed all right. So it’s a shocking decision, absolutely shocking.

“He [Martinez] almost just goes to touch him and grab his shirt and he ends up catching his head, touches the back of his hair, the bobble comes out and you can you get a red card. It’s not aggressive. There’s no jolt. There’s no tug. There’s no sudden movement.”

Carrick stated he would communicate to the United’s hierarchy earlier than deciding whether or not to attraction the Martinez resolution with the Argentina centre-back now going through the prospect of a three-match ban. “I’m going to have to obviously, discuss it but I think it’s a bad decision, so we will have to see,” he stated.

Harry Maguire was lacking towards Leeds by way of suspension for his purple card towards Bournemouth however is going through the prospect of a further ban after being charged with improper conduct for his behaviour in direction of the fourth official after his dismissal the Vitality Stadium. It means United might probably be with out Maguire and Martinez for Saturday’s recreation at Chelsea.

“Hopefully Licha is still available. I think certainly that it should be after that. But we’ll see,” Carrick added.

Calvert-Lewin stated: “I don’t make the rules. I felt my hair get pulled, told the ref, he makes the decisions. Unfortunate for him, whether he’s meant it or not. I hold no grudges.”

United had lodged a proper criticism with the PGMOL, the referees’ governing physique, after their 2-2 draw towards Bournemouth final month over what they really feel have been a litany of poor choices to go towards them this season.

Old Trafford officers have been livid that referee Stuart Attwell refused to award Amad Diallo a penalty, moments earlier than Ryan Christie scored for Bournemouth, when Amad appeared to have his shirt pulled by Adrien Truffert however Attwell and the VAR didn’t give a foul.

Bruno Fernandes claimed he would get into scorching water if he mentioned the officers. “I don’t want to talk about the referees,” the United captain stated after the Leeds recreation. “If I talk about the referee I am going to get in very big trouble because the rules are different for everyone and applied different for everyone. The difference in the yellow cards, you can see it so it is better I do not say anything.”