Manchester United fans have slammed the lack of consistency in officiating after seeing Liverpool midfielder Wataru Endo escape a red card for a late tackle on Thursday night. <br /><br />The Japan international was shown a yellow after catching Toulouse forward Thijs Dallinga on the top of the foot in the Reds' 3-2 Europa League defeat. <br /><br />Some United fans felt aggrieved the 30-year-old did not receive a harsher penalty after comparing the challenge to the incident that saw Marcus Rashford sent off a day earlier. <br /><br />The forward inadvertently stood on the ankle of Copenhagen's Elias Jelert in the Premier League side's crushing 4-3 defeat in the Champions League. The 26-year-old was dismissed following a VAR review. <br /><br />'No tackle is ever gonna be 100% the same,' one fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter. 'That's why we need humans to referee and not computers. <br /><br />The point is they both went to shield the ball and ended up stamping on a player by accident. One got a yellow and the other got a red after a VAR check with multiple slowed-down replays.'<br /><br />Another bemoaned the officiating Erik ten Hag's side are subjected to, writing: 'Rules are different when it comes to Man Utd.'<br /><br />'The agenda against Man U is so clear,' wrote one supporter before another agreed adding: 'Clear agenda against United, they ain't even hiding it anymore.'<br /><br />Man United boss Erik ten Hag had criticized the decision to show Rashford a red card, insisting challenges always look worse slowed down. <br /><br />'The red card changes everything,' said the United manager. 'I think when you freeze-frame it, it always looks so much worse, and as I say it takes them so long and they make a red card of it.<br /><br />'Come on. In the first 25 minutes we dictated, dominated the game, and went 2-0 up, and then the red card changed everything. We are down to 10 and we are very disappointed.<br /><br />Rashford's dismissal sparked intense debate with former players and pundits divided on whether the challenge merited a red card. <br /><br />TNT Sports pundit Robbie Savage said: 'That, for me, is a red card. When you see it there, he’s just gone to protect the ball, but by doing that, that’s a straight red. One hundred percent a red card.'<br /><br />However, according to Jamie Carragher, Rashford simply fell foul of the dreaded slow-motion replay. He wrote on X: 'No way is that a red card for Rashford! Hate these slow-motion replays & still images that make everything look ten times worse.'
