Pictures show West Ham goalkeeper Adrian should have been sent off against Manchester United

Adrian was lucky not to __have been sent off at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty)

Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke the deadlock after only two minutes against West Ham but pictures suggest Adrian should __have been sent off at Old Trafford.

The Hammers goalkeeper went in on Ibrahimovic with his studs up as the Red Devils centre-forward dinked the the ball over him to make it 1-0 at Old Trafford.

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Referee Mike Jones awarded United the goal but Adrian was not even shown a yellow card for the shocking challenge at the start of the EFL Cup quarter-final.

Ibrahimovic found the net following a brilliant back-heeled assist from Henrikh Mkhitaryan who started the match on Wednesday evening.

Jose Mourinho started Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty)

The Armenian midfielder has only made five appearances for United in all competitions since signing on the dotted line at Old Trafford in the summer.

Jose Mourinho’s men face West Ham for the second time in a week after a 1-1 draw with Slaven Bilic’s side at the weekend.

The images of Adrian’s challenge on Ibrahimovic were rather gruesome…

Ibrahimovic opened the scoring at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty)

Ibrahimovic went down in a heap at Old Trafford…

It wasn’t pretty! (Picture: Getty)

The big Swede was NOT happy!

Ibrahimovic was angry at the referee’s decision (Picture: Getty)