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Ralf Rangnick was frustrated by a “very, very soft” decision leading to Manchester United having a goal ruled out in their 1-1 draw against Burnley on Tuesday.
United appeared to have gone 2-0 up when Josh Brownhill turned Marcus Rashford’s cross into his own net, but a foul was belatedly given for Paul Pogba’s challenge on Erik Pieters in the build-up.
Pogba had given the Red Devils the lead in the 18th minute with his first Premier League goal in 384 days after Raphael Varane had one disallowed for an offside against Harry Maguire.
Nick Pope kept Burnley in it for the rest of the first half and following Jay Rodriguez’s equaliser two minutes after the restart, United were unable to test the hosts’ keeper again.
Rangnick felt the game ought to have been over by half-time and that his team were hindered significantly by the own goal being chalked off.
“I think we played a fantastic first half, couldn’t have played any better. We scored three goals, the second that was disallowed I cannot understand,” Rangnick told the BBC.
“It was a very, very soft decision by the linesman. He flagged the foul five or six seconds after it took place.
“It really surprised me he flagged when the ball was in the net. Had he really seen the foul? The first I can understand why it was disallowed, it was a hard one, but the second I cannot understand.
“If you look into the whole game, we dominated for most of it. Winning one point is not enough and another frustrating game.”
Only Premier League leaders Manchester City (11) are on a longer unbeaten away run in the top flight than United, who have avoided defeat in each of their past six outings. However, Rangnick’s side have won just two of those matches.
Rodriguez’s goal came with Burnley’s first shot on target of the game and that frustrated United captain Harry Maguire, who allowed Wout Weghorst to turn and slide his strike partner in with an excellent assist.
“I think you saw the first half. We had control. We have got to win the game with the amount of chances we created. We had to get that second goal. It’s two points dropped,” Maguire told BT Sport.
“We wanted to dominate the game but when you come to Burnley away you are not going to dominate for 90 minutes. We had to see it out better. We conceded like against Middlesbrough [in the FA Cup on Friday] when they had that spell of pressure. We have got to be that bit more clinical.
“It was a disappointing goal on our behalf to concede. We came out in the second half a bit sloppy. We had long enough in the game to come back from that and try and find the winner.
“We demand of ourselves to win the football match, so it is disappointing.”
