Manchester United beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 away from home in a Premier League marquee match. Faced with injuries to two of their main center backs, Hua Lani and Lisindo Martinez, captain Harry Makouni stepped up to the plate to keep the goal intact. However, the English central defender seemed to be quite lucky, in the first half of the handball in the penalty area, fortunately, VAR "redemption" to avoid a red card, which made Forest leader Steve Cooper angry, strongly demanded that the chief referee Webby apologize.
Just three minutes into the match, Harry Magouni received a yellow card. At the 20-minute mark, with the score still 0-0, Magouni raised his left hand above his head while defending a corner kick and the ball struck his hand impartially, but the VAR found that Magouni's hand was in a "natural position" and no additional penalty was given. Giggs commented: "If the referee had awarded a penalty, United would have had nothing to say, and Magouni was lucky this time."
However, Cooper slammed the referee's enforcement after the game, "It was an extremely poor miscarriage of justice, he (Webby, Chief Referee of Pro Referees UK) apologized for the miscarriage of justice last week and will probably have to do it again tomorrow but apologies have lost their meaning and miscarriages of justice occur far too often. I wouldn't say that the decision was the only thing that caused us to lose, but the goal was definitely a penalty and Magouni could have been shown a second yellow card and ejected from the game, a decision that could have changed the whole course of the game."
