Tevez Won It

Last updated : 27 August 2007 By Ed
Ferguson on the handball appeal.

"At the time they protested so much I thought it must have been a penalty," Ferguson told Sky Sports 1.

"When I see it clearly, and Wes said it himself, it hits him in the chest. As you see it hit him in the chest, his arm comes up and you almost think it's his hand.

"But it hit his chest, I'm sure of that."

Ferguson also thinks that Tevez's touch earned United the goal.

"It was a narrow margin and it was touch and go. There was nothing between both sides.

"I feel we had the majority of possession, particularly after the first 10 minutes and we made two chances in the first half only, as against what we have been doing recently.

"I knew it was going to be a war of attrition in the second half. They dug in and got forward a couple of times on the counter-attack, and caused us a bit of bother.

"There was nothing in the game in the second half and the goal was a wonder hit.

"I think Carlos Tevez touching the ball would definitely decide it. It may have gone in anyway it was such a ferocious hit, but the Tevez touch has sealed it."

Martin Jol however was convinced it was a penalty.

"I felt it was a penalty kick, the lad must be a wizard if he can keep this ball out of the goal," Jol told Sky Sports 1.

"It was a penalty and everyone can say it wasn't, but he used everything - like a keeper, he's not a keeper, he's a defender - to keep the ball out of the net.

"I feel, sometimes, especially at these grounds, you need a bit of luck and I felt if you get a penalty kick we could have come away with a win."