Roy Keane delivered a pointed assessment of Bruno Fernandes after the incident that led to Phil Foden\u2019s dismissal in the first half of Sunday\u2019s Manchester derby.<\/p>\n
Referee Michael Oliver showed Foden a straight red card, with VAR backing the decision and ruling that the Manchester City player had committed violent conduct. Fernandes, however, was not booked, leaving United with a numerical edge from the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n
Speaking at half-time on Sky Sports, Keane questioned the interpretation of the moment and argued that Fernandes deserved scrutiny for his part in the flashpoint. The former United midfielder was blunt in his judgement, saying Foden should not have been dismissed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruno [Fernandes] goes in, tackles him, clearly fouls him and gives him a little boot on the floor,\u201d Keane said. \u201cFoden gets up, does react, and he’s now sent off. I’m guessing it’s classed as violent conduct, but to me, Bruno’s the one who’s violent here.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to call it out. I called Kyle Walker out a few years ago when he went down to a head butt [which led to United striker Rasmus Hojlund seeing a red card]. I don’t think that’s a red card for Foden, I really don’t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keane continued to press the same point, insisting that both players had been involved in a needlessly messy exchange. \u201cFoden’s a bit daft here, but so is Bruno,\u201d Keane added. \u201cIf Bruno got sent off for that and nothing happened with Foden then we’d be saying, \u2018Do you know what, Bruno was a bit daft, a bit silly.\u2019 The players are all in the PFA, everyone’s in a union, you’ve got to try and look out for each other; you can’t be rolling around.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruno has got to do better there. People say there’s tension and it’s a big game, but you’ve got to look out for your teammates and the opposition players as well. Foden, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a red card.\u201d<\/p>\n
City later overturned the setback and won at Old Trafford through Erling Haaland\u2019s second-half winner. New manager Enzo Maresca then reflected on the incident, saying: \u201cIt can be a red card, but in the same action, it can be a red card for Bruno. It is what it is,\u201d before adding that the dismissal had also removed one of United\u2019s best traits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keane accused Fernandes of the key foul in the derby flashpoint and disputed Foden’s red card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,2024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-refereeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}