Keith Hackett has backed criticism of Alejandro Garnacho for “simulation” in the win against Everton at Old Trafford.
On March 10, the former Premier League referee and PGMOL chief responded on Twitter, stating that a Toffees fan had captured the essence of the Argentine’s actions “exactly.”
Despite excellent performance from Jordan Pickford in goal, Sean Dyche’s team failed to capitalise on their own dominance and shot themselves in the back a day earlier, as the United teenager was sent off twice for penalties in the 2-0 home victory.
After ten minutes, James Tarkowski grabbed him with a lazy trailing leg, which caused him to lie on the ground in apparent pain. It wasn’t until he sat up and cheered towards the home crowd that he realised he had won a spot kick.
Hackett wrote: “Spot on with your observations. We saw in the late eighties nineties the rise in acts of Simulation.”
Alejandro Garnacho guilty of ‘simulation’ as Everton lose at Old Trafford
The 19-year-old posed the most threat to Sean Dyche’s team, who once again failed to capitalise on their chances, and may have felt like they got away with it against a flat United team.
Garnacho’s excessive theatrics were a little annoying, but neither of the penalties was met with a lot of criticism, which is what basically made his injury pretending superfluous.
He could contend that in the absence of it, the consistently erratic officials might have chosen to overlook the gathering, and considering the numerous odd choices that appear to be made every week, he might have a point.
Tarkowski didn’t catch him particularly hard, and his careless swinging leg summed up an already disappointing afternoon for the Everton centre back. However, in the contemporary game, contact is sufficient to gain a penalty, so even if he had simply gone down and protested, the VAR would have probably awarded it.
Even more obvious was Ben Godfrey’s choice to dive in and bring him down twice before halftime, following Amadou Onana’s, who was already on a booking, and James Garner’s blunder on a tackle outside the box.
The video of Garnacho was just the cherry on top of an even more frustrating cake for Dyche, who would have been furiously unhappy to watch his team dominate Erik ten Hag’s team and then blow it with two crucial errors as Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford scored.
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