Jamie Carragher has criticised Bruno Fernandes for the way he reacted during the incident that saw Phil Foden sent off in Manchester United’s 1-0 defeat to Manchester City.The flashpoint came in the 23rd minute at Old Trafford, with Foden dismissed for kicking out at the United captain after the pair had clashed. City were forced to play more than an hour with ten men, but Erling Haaland still scored the only goal of the game in the second half.Want more CaughtOffside coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustThe red card has continued to divide opinion, and Carragher has now made it clear that he was particularly unhappy with Fernandes’ reaction.Jamie Carragher criticised Man United captain(Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)Speaking on Monday Night Football, Carragher said two yellow cards would have been a more reasonable outcome and accused Fernandes of exaggerating the contact.He said, as reported by Mirror:“What I would say is two yellows [cards] would have been fine. But I was really disappointed with Bruno Fernandes.”Carragher continued:“There’s a lot of things in football that we like or we don’t like. My big one that I really don’t like is people going down, pretending they’re hurt. But doing that…I can’t have it.“I know there will be Manchester United fans watching this saying: “Oh it’s because he’s a Manchester United player, it’s because he’s a foreign player”. On this show about five or six years ago Harry Kane did the same in a game between Tottenham and Everton and I said the same, I can’t accept it. I’m not having the reaction from Bruno there, it was a brush from his foot.”More Stories / Latest News‘I was really disappointed’ – Carragher did not hold back in his criticism of Man United starSep 15 2026, 7:07Tottenham take hardline stance as De Zerbi confirms attacker will not play for the clubSep 15 2026, 6:33Liverpool midfielder confirms emotional Anfield exit with a post on InstagramSep 15 2026, 6:26Foden made a mistake but Fernandes overreacted(Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)Carragher has a fair point about Fernandes making the contact look worse than it appeared. The Portuguese midfielder went down dramatically, and that inevitably influenced the debate around the dismissal.But Foden still created the problem himself.Officials judged his secondary kicking motion to be violent conduct, and VAR backed referee Michael Oliver’s decision. Pro Ref later maintained that the red card itself was correct, even though the officials subsequently admitted a separate VAR error over Haaland’s winning goal.Fernandes may not come out of the incident looking particularly good, but responsibility ultimately rests with Foden for retaliating.The bigger frustration for United is that the controversy gave them a numerical advantage for most of the match, yet they still could not take advantage. That failure arguably mattered far more than Fernandes’ theatrics.Manchester United star accused of cheating after controversial derby incidentThe post ‘I was really disappointed’ – Carragher did not hold back in his criticism of Man United star appeared first on CaughtOffside.