Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has described Nemanja Matic's sending off in their Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Manchester City as an "absolute joke".
"It's hard to come here and score a goal with 11 men, never mind 10. So it was never a sending off, absolute joke for me," Solskjaer told Sky Sports.
"It's ironic really he gets a yellow card for his first foul, almost gets a yellow on his second foul which isn't even a foul and then the second one, the last one, is a yellow but nowhere near [a red card].
"How many times did they foul us? How many times was Dan James fouled? How many in the first half on Jesse [Lingard]?
"It's the first question you've asked and it shouldn't be because I'm so proud of these players. They've beaten City now twice in six weeks at their place. We've come so far with these boys, they've given absolutely everything.
"We wanted to be in the game with five minutes to go. That has to be your game plan when you're 2-0 down. We've done that before and when we got that one [goal] we just needed a moment and unfortunately we couldn't capitalise.
"These boys have come a long way. They've developed. Second half showed as well that even though we didn't create too many big, clear cut chances, we pressed them back, we had spells where they were defended deep which pleased me."