{"id":20867,"date":"2025-08-24T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:30:12","slug":"manchester-uniteds-bruno-fernandes-upset-by-lack-of-apology-from-referee-in-draw-at-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20867\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s Bruno Fernandes \u2018upset\u2019 by lack of apology from referee in draw at Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Referee<\/p>\n

Referee Chris Kavanagh gestures as Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes prepares to take a penalty kick in the Premier League draw with Fulham at Craven Cottage, London<\/p>\n

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes says he was \u201cupset\u201d referee Chris Kavanagh did not apologise for bumping into him ahead of his penalty during the 1-1 draw at Fulham, but insisted the official was not to blame for him missing.<\/p>\n

Fernandes skied his first-half spot-kick moments after colliding with the official when he had started his routine.<\/p>\n

The score was 0-0 at the time, with United going ahead in the second half through Rodrigo Muniz\u2019s own goal before Emile Smith-Rowe earned a point for Fulham.<\/p>\n

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The Portugal midfielder said on Sky Sports: \u201cI was upset. Obviously, as every penalty taker, you have your own routines.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have your own things that you do. It upset me because the referee didn\u2019t apologise, and that was what triggered me in that moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s not the excuse to missing the penalty. I just had a very bad hit on the ball. I got my foot too (much) under the ball, and that\u2019s why the ball went over the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boss Ruben Amorim admitted that the missed penalty, controversially awarded after Calvin Bassey was adjudged to have hauled down Mason Mount at a set-piece, affected his skipper\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

\"It<\/p>\n

It was an uncharacteristic miss by the Portugal midfielder (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/p>\n

Amorim added: \u201cI think he\u2019s not used to missing a penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows the importance that every moment in this context, can have a huge impact in the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I felt that during the game, he was like, not so happy, not so involved, because he has so much responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think he felt that missed penalty, it was huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Chris Kavanagh gestures as Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes prepares to take a penalty kick in the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,20,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-20867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-manchester-united","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}