?Swansea manager Paul Clement has expressed his belief that Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford ‘deceived the referee’ to win a penalty late in the first half of Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
Wayne Rooney converted the penalty to give the hosts the lead against the run of play, but Swansea levelled with ten minutes remaining through a superb Gylfi Sigurdsson free-kick.
Clement condemned Rashford’s attempt to win a penalty after the game, but claimed that referees need help to make such difficult decisions.
“I looked at reaction my players, they were furious about it so that puts a doubt in your mind whether it was the correct decision,” he told BT Sport – via ?Wales Online.
“Then there was the delay between contact – or non-contact – and the decision being given; there was a brief pause there which normally would say there’s doubt.
“The referee said after the game that he was sure what seen, he was just confirming with the assistant – but I don’t know why he even asked him because he was almost as far as away as I was.
“Then the replays showed the player deceived the referee, there’s no other way to look at it. You could say he’s dangled a leg to get the contact, but he’s down before that, he’s down before there’s any kind of contact. The keeper pulled out of it.”
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