Manchester United Legend Protests Real Betis Goal

Manchester United conceded a goal against Real Betis in the Europa League. (Photo: Twitter/@ManUtd)

JAKARTA - Manchester United legend Paul Schholes reacted to a return goal scored by Real Betis against David De Gea). According to him, the goal was invalid because handball had already occurred.

In the first leg of the Europa League last 16, Friday, March 10 in the morning WIB, MU, who won with a score of 4-1. Although he was four points ahead but one goal back from Betis by Ayoze Perez was very disturbing to Scholes.

The goal came after a VAR examination suspected that Juanmi had potential handball in the counter-attack process leading to Perez's goal. The Spanish forward was seen controlling the ball with the help of his arm in a moment deemed unintentional by the referee.

In fact, the result was not easily accepted by Scholes, he thought that it was a handball movement and not intentional, Schholes asked to see the direction of Juanmi's arm.

"If you look closely, I think it touches his arm first. This rule is stupid, isn't it? Handball is handball, it's handball that causes goals and should be disallowed," Schholes said as quoted by Evening Standard on Friday, March 10.

Schholes' former colleague at Manchester United, Owen Hargreaves, also agreed with what Scholes revealed. He felt it made sense and it was only natural that the goal was disallowed.

"Even if you play with your colleagues in a training match on the pitch, you'll say it's handball. These regulations are getting ridiculous," he said.

However, MU still managed to wrap up the victory at the end of the match. Their four goals were created from the executions of Marcus Rashford, Antony, Bruno Fernandes and Wout Weghorst.