United suffered a 2-1 defeat on Sunday at the London Stadium. Crysencio Summerville gave West Ham the lead but it didn’t last long as Casemiro grabbed the equaliser ten minutes later.
In the final stages of the match, the Hammers were awarded a controversial penalty, following the intervention of Michael Oliver and VAR after a coming together between Danny Ings and Matthijs de Ligt.
Coote had initially deemed that there was no infringement but upon being asked to further review the incident by Oliver, he reversed his original decision and gave West Ham the chance to go ahead once again. Jarrod Bowen converted from the spot-kick to deny United a share of the spoils.
The Dutchman remarked, “First of all, in football not always the best team win and today it was clear and obvious and clear and obvious was not how the VAR worked, how they run their process.”
“Before the season they explained the process of the VAR and only when it is clear and obvious then they should interfere. What they didn’t do against Spurs, where they should have done it, to interfere with the red card of Bruno, that was a wrong decision and now they make a wrong decision interfering. Both had big impacts on the scores of the games.”
“As I say, I don’t criticise any person but I criticise the process. The off-field VAR was Michael Oliver but the on-field, you have to make a decision in the final moment and he did I think three minutes to decide. But then you have to show big personality to recall this decision.”
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