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Absolute madness at Old Trafford as Zlatan avoids red card for exacting brutal revenge

Published 13:35 4 Mar 2017 GMT

Patrick McCarry
Absolute madness at Old Trafford as Zlatan avoids red card for exacting brutal revenge

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A regular game of football for 42 minutes until it all kicked off.

Manchester United went in level at 1-1 with Bournemouth at half-time of their Premier League clash. What started as an open, flowing game ended up with Gary Neville likening it to a UFC brawl. There were some feisty challenges flying about but United took the lead through Marcos Rojo. The Cherries equalised through a Josh King penalty after a rash Phil Jones challenge. Then, less than a second after Wayne Rooney was scythed down, Tyrone Mings stamped on the prone head of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Play was waved on and it took the Swede less than a minute to exact revenge by elbowing Mings in the head. "He deserves what he got," claimed Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports at half-time. Amid the chaos, Andrew Surman pushed Ibrahimovic and was sent off for his second yellow card. Somehow, the United striker got just a yellow card and all Mings got was several minutes of treatment. No-one seemed happy with the crazy developments. https://twitter.com/ChrisDoyle_23/status/838019045349806081 https://twitter.com/philmscribe/status/838019038764797952 https://twitter.com/GaryBryan3/status/838019035908407296 https://twitter.com/MusingsFootball/status/838019043890249728 https://twitter.com/ColossalDeGea/status/838019041767874560

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