Amad fell inside the penalty area midway through the second half when Bournemouth defender Adrien Truffert grabbed his arm. Referee Stuart Attwell dismissed the penalty appeals and the Cherries advanced to the opposite end and equalised seconds later.

United had already been awarded a penalty for a shirt pull on Matheus Cunha, and they also conceded a spot kick themselves while Harry Maguire was dismissed for placing his arm across Evanilson, an incident bearing a striking resemblance to the one involving Amad and Truffert.

It left Michael Carrick and United officials seething at the conclusion of the 2-2 draw, yet the KMI panel voted 3-2 in favour of Attwell’s call and concluded that VAR Craig Pawson was equally justified in choosing not to intervene.

According to BBC Sport, the panel believed that “while Truffert runs a risk, the contact made was not impactful and therefore below the high threshold for a foul”, and that Pawson’s decision not to intervene was “in keeping with the high threshold for VAR overturns”.

Carrick described the decision not to award a penalty as “astonishing” following the match and was unable to hide his frustration during his post-match press conference.

“My first (thought) is he definitely got one of them wrong, because he’s give one penalty for for the same thing that he’s not give one as a two-armed grab,” he added. “So the Matheus one, he gives, the second one on Amad he doesn’t, which is, I think almost identical, really, two hands on someone in the box, and they go over and they’re in control of the ball.

“For me, it’s two penalties, but it’d be interesting to see which one he acknowledges is wrong, whether the one we got or the one that we didn’t get. And it’s a huge moment. And you don’t give it, they go down to the other end and score and then it needs to be a bigger penalty to overturn just because they scored when actually it’s a penalty and it should be a penalty if you’ve already given one.

“So a bit baffling, really, to make sense of that. And because they score, then the game flips a little bit and changes and then we defended with the 10 men after all that, very well and the boys coming off the bench and finishing the game really strong. So that was a big positive for us to take the point in the end because we’ve seen them win late here so we take that, but the penalty one’s just astonishing, I have to say, one of them must be wrong.”

The KMI panel supported the penalty awarded for Alex Jimenez’s pull on Cunha 5-0 and the ruling to dismiss Maguire for his foul on Evanilson 4-1.

The controversy surrounding the match has rumbled on throughout the week, with Maguire facing FA charges over his tirade at the fourth official as he left the pitch.