Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker share views on Bruno Fernandes’ penalty miss against Fulham

Manchester United missed a big opportunity early in their match against Fulham, with a first-half penalty going wide of the mark.

VAR called over referee Chris Kavanagh to review a challenge from Calvin Bassey on Mason Mount inside the box, leading to the decision.

Fernandes has generally been reliable from 12 yards, but this time his effort flew over the bar without troubling Bernd Leno.

Alan Shearer did not hold back when discussing it with Gary Lineker on The Rest Is Football podcast.

“I mean, the penalty was awful, wasn’t it? It doesn’t matter about that. But I think it was a penalty, probably. Yeah,” he said.

Gary Lineker quizzes Alan Shearer over the idea of Bryan Mbeumo taking over penalty duties from Bruno Fernandes at Manchester United

Lineker put the question to Shearer about whether Ruben Amorim might consider giving penalty duties to Bryan Mbeumo instead of Bruno Fernandes.

The Newcastle legend had just pointed out that Fernandes’ miss was not great, and Lineker followed up by saying: “Do they put Mbeumo on penalties now?

“Because he’s so good at penalties, isn’t he? He was like last season [at Brentford], I mean, he didn’t miss.”

But Shearer felt it was too soon for any changes, suggesting that one missed penalty should not be enough to lose the role.

He told Lineker: “No, you’re allowed, I think you’re allowed to miss one, aren’t you?

“Then if you miss two on the spin, then I get you’ve got to hand it over. But you’re allowed to miss one.”

Lineker seemed to back up Shearer’s viewpoint, although there were some audio issues during that part of the episode.