Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-1 at the weekend as goals from Nuno Tavares, Bukayo Saka and Granit Xhaka was enough to avenge the defeat at Old Trafford in the reverse meeting earlier in the season.
On that night, Cristiano Ronaldo was the hero as it was his penalty that ultimately separated the two sides. But it wasn't to be the Portugal superstar's afternoon on his first return to the Emirates Stadium in almost 13 years - and that's despite achieving a personal landmark of joining the 100-goal Premier League club.
The 37-year-old was denied goal number 101 in the second half by the slightest of margins as he had an effort ruled out for offside and, somewhat surprisingly, declined to take the penalty from which Bruno Fernandes missed that could have brought the visitors level.
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Perhaps what annoyed Ronaldo the most on Saturday was a crucial 10-minute spell in the first-half. With Arsenal leading thanks to Tavares' early goal, the visitors had a big shout for a penalty turned down as Cedric Soares appeared to handle the ball whilst falling to the ground under pressure from Jadon Sancho.
Both Sancho and Ronaldo led the loud United protests, but a spot-kick was not awarded, in addition, there was no intervention from VAR and former referee Dermot Gallagher explained on Sky Sports why the decision was the correct one.
"It's covered in law because his arm is on the ground, so it's deemed supporting his body and it struck him rather than him striking the ball. I don't think it was a scoop," he said on Ref Watch."That's what the referee works too - supporting your body, striking the arm and they don't give a penalty."
To compound Ronaldo's misery, moments later Arsenal were awarded a penalty of their own after VAR, this time, intervened to pull the play back after Eddie Nketiah's goal was ruled out for offside as Alex Telles' foul on Bukayo Saka was spotted in the build-up.
Even though 10 minutes had passed between the two incidents, Ronaldo was still complaining about the decision that went against United when referee Craig Pawson pointed to the spot for Arsenal. This is seen in the club's 'Bench Cam' video uploaded to YouTube, at around the 4.08-minute mark as he makes a gesture with his hand towards Mikel Arteta, points at where the Cedric handball incident took place before shaking the Spaniard's hand.
He then turns to be confronted by his compatriot - presumably to protest his innocence - but that's unlikely to have improved his mood especially as Saka made no mistake from 12 yards to give the Gunners a 2-0 lead.
