Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Gary Lineker all said Manchester United should get a penalty against Chelsea.
United were hopeful of getting a header after the VAR asked referee Stuart Attwell to review an incident with Callum Hudson-Odoi and Mason Greenwood, where the ball apparently hit the arm first.
Despite a repeat on the monitor at the scene, however, Attwell stuck to his initial decision and chose not to point to the venue.
“There will undoubtedly have been a penalty kick earlier in the season,” Neville said during comments as the review took place. “I think he’s going to give a penalty kick. I think Hudson-Odoi’s panic is the fact that his arm doesn’t really have to be there, he tries to get his body in, but then he just pushes it away.
“There is undoubtedly two or three months ago, it is a punishment, and there is no doubt two or three months ago that the referee on the field would have complied with the reference, but the referees are brave and the handball laws are being changed before our eyes. as the season goes on.
‘You’re talking about an unnatural position. I just think it’s probably a penalty kick because of the height of the ball, it’s not exactly hit on him. Tuchel and Solskjaer have a row.
“We saw some stupid this season when it was hit against a player and you think, ‘how is this a penalty kick?’ Hudson-Odoi can see the ball traveling from afar, it’s in the air and his hand moves it away from Greenwood.
“It’s interesting because the Chelsea players asked Greenwood for a handball.”
Lineker agrees with Neville’s statement and he wrote on Twitter: “I hate the current handball law, but according to the current guidelines it is a fine.”
Keane also disagrees with Attwell’s decision, saying Hudson-Odoi is moving his hand to the ball: ‘We’ve seen them before for such incidents.
“When he stopped the game and went to the screen, the Chelsea players were definitely worried. They are all over the referee, who is probably not helpful. He does put his hand to the ball, there can not get away.
“We saw them being given, we don’t want to see players punished for this, but he raises his hand.”