Referee Gave Newcastle United Penalty ‘For Nothing’, Says Manchester United

Mitrovic, who saw the England captain at close quarters during United’s 3-3 draw with Newcastle on Tuesday, said of Rooney’s detractors: “They are insane”.

Aleksandar Mitrovic last night gave one of his best performances since arriving at Newcastle, including winning and scoring the vital penalty that levelled the game at 2-2.

But Lingard and Marouane Fellaini both wasted excellent chances to add to the visitors’ tally and they paid the price as Paul Dummett scored a last-minute equaliser for a share of the spoils at St James’ Park.

“It does feel like a defeat”, Rooney told BBC Sport.

“I’m very disappointed, we’re very disappointed”, he said.

“We have given it away”.

But overall that isn’t enough and with United in the race to secure Champions League football, their hopes took a major dent with that result and they must now beat Liverpool on the weekend. Everybody knows it’s our own fault, not the referee or opponents. “No. We were unlucky in decisions of the referee and a deflected shot and we did not finish our chances”, van Gaal was quoted as saying by the British media on Tuesday. We have scored three goals but only have one point.

“If you came into the changing rooms after the match, it was like we’d lost the game”.

“I have not agreed with the analysis of many people because we are always attacking and we are always attacking also away”, said Van Gaal, whose side slipped to sixth in the Premier League table.

“I think after going 2-0 up we were in control of the game, and then we’ve let them back into it”, Rooney said, as reported by manutd.com. A penalty conversion from Wayne Rooney and a attractive goal from Jesse Lingard put Louis van Gaal’s men up 2-0 in the 38th minute before a late first half goal from Newcastle’s Georginio Wijnaldum cut the deficit in half. I needed that goal, you can see that in my celebration. But I have to live with it.

“We have a fantastic defence, but we concede three goals”. We were composed; we were keeping the ball and creating chances and all of a sudden [it came] from nothing.