Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted that his team were lucky to get a win against Chelsea.
“I know I caught him and I felt he was going to fall on me and my natural reaction was to straighten my leg to stop him,” Maguire told Sky Sports.
“It wasn’t a kick out and there was no intent. I think it’s the right decision. I knew I’d caught him but that I had no intent to hurt him. It was just a natural reaction. I apologised to him and it was nice that the referee saw sense.”
“We didn’t play particularly well with the ball, we were sloppy and slow at times but defensively it was very good,” Solskjaer told BBC Sport. “Eric Bailly was outstanding on his first game back.
“We had the margins on our side, in football it does happen. They were unfortunate with the two VAR goals – the right decisions but they were marginal.
“Was Harry Maguire lucky? I don’t think so, he was fouled first and Batshuayi was going to fall on top of him so he put his leg out and hit him where it hurts.
“I didn’t see a foul by Fred for the disallowed goal. Luckily there was no VAR when I played. Giroud was a foot, or half a foot offside, at least it wasn’t an armpit.
“We are three points behind Chelsea now, that was a massive win tonight. We could not have realistically clawed back nine points.”
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