Manchester United had been awarded a penalty following an intervention from VAR after Mason Mount was thrown to the bottom by Fulham defender, Calvin Bassey, throughout a nook.
The incident appeared to go unnoticed by the match officers in play. However after being instructed to evaluate the conflict on a pitchside monitor, referee Chris Kavanagh defined to followers that Bassey was being penalised for dragging Mount down within the penalty space.
A submit on the Premier League Match Centre X account confirmed Kavanagh's verdict, saying: "After a VAR evaluate, the referee overturned the unique name of no penalty for a problem by Bassey on Mount. Referee announcement: 'After evaluate, Fulham quantity 3 pulls the Manchester (United) participant to the bottom. The ultimate determination is penalty kick'."
Sadly for Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes spurned his golden alternative from the spot and lashed the penalty means over the crossbar. That miss meant the half ended goalless regardless of a flurry of possibilities for each groups.
Throughout a dissection of the spot-kick shortly after Fernandes' miss, Gary Neville identified that an unintentional bump from the referee appeared to distract the United captain simply earlier than he stepped up for the penalty.
Talking on Sky Sports activities, Neville mentioned: "He [Fernandes] picked the ball up, then he bundles into referee a bit. He gave him a little bit of a bump accidentally, and he goes again. It simply unnerved him somewhat bit.
"I assumed it was as a result of the referee was adjusting the gamers on the sting of the field, however he's nonetheless having a go, Bruno Fernandes, on the referee, as a result of he really feel that was somewhat bit clumsy."
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