#3 The penalty (?)
There was no sign of the kind of controversy that is usually a part and parcel of a meeting between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho but that doesn’t mean the Portuguese manager didn’t make a meal of it when his team’s appeal for a penalty went ignored. What pretty much happened was, Nacho Monreal put his arm out while jostling for the ball with Antonio Valencia inside the box and the United full back went down.
While United players, supporters and especially their manager saw a foul, the north London club saw a dive. However, referee Andre Marriner saw neither and waved the incident off as if it was nothing. After all, to the indifferent observer it did look like Valencia went down too easily although neither did it look like simulation on the right back’s behalf.
However, United players will look upon the incident with more animosity as the potential penalty could have given them all three points instead of just the one.
