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The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel has reached a final decision on the controversial Amad penalty incident during Manchester United’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth.

Penalty saga

United took the lead at the Vitality Stadium through Bruno Fernandes, who converted from the spot-kick. Matheus Cunha won the penalty, having been brought down inside the area by Alex Jimenez.

The Red Devils strongly felt they deserved a second penalty after Amad appeared to have been shoved by Adrien Truffert, who placed two hands on him. Referee Stuart Atwell was very close by and simply waved on despite United’s passionate appeals. To make matters worse for Michael Carrick and his players, Bournemouth went down the other end in the same passage of play and scored, making it 1-1.

That was a crucial moment, as United went from potentially taking a 2-0 lead to being pulled back to 1-1.

United restored their advantage as Fernandes’ wicked delivery was turned into the back of his own net by James Hill. But there was another late twist when Harry Maguire was given his marching orders and the Cherries were awarded a penalty for a last-man challenge on Evanilson.

The strange...