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Bournemouth boss Iraola: Mainoo dived

Bournemouth boss Iraola: Mainoo dived
Bournemouth boss Iraola: Mainoo dived
Bournemouth boss Iraola: Mainoo divedFlashscore
The hosts had two penalty shouts on the day.

Iraola said: "(The handball) I think it is in the rules no? The ball rebounds from his teammate and what Adam does is instinctive. I think it is not called normally, these kind of handballs.

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"I believe completely it was a penalty (for Christie). Against Newcastle the penalty against us, the contact started outside the box. But (today) the first frame was put so the first contact was on the edge of the box, but the contact continues one,two metres inside and is stopping the player.

"It is not just one moment and Christie is down. The defender goes with Christie one, two metres inside the box. For me it is obvious.

"In the first half Kobbie Mainoo dives and it is not a yellow card, second half Ryan Christie, there is contact and he falls down, but yellow card for diving. What is the difference?

"I understand that we are safe, but for us every point is very important. Very, very important. In the last games since we are safe all the decisions have gone against us. But at the end we need the same respect as other teams. All the teams are playing for important things, and it cost us two points and a lot of hard work. We demand some consistency."