From heaven to hell and back to heaven Manchester United!
Erik Ten Haag’s team took a 3-0 lead Coventrysaw the Championship club come back to equalise at 3-3however eventually prevailed 4-2 on penaltiesbooking a place in the final, where he will face City.
With one division separating the two rivals, the Red Devils looked to assert their superiority by taking a two-goal lead from the first half.
THE McTominay opened the scoring in the 23rd minute, with Maguire to make it 2-0 in the first minute of first-half stoppage time. At 58′, o Fernandes raised the score to 3-0, but somewhere there the “sky blues” woke up!
In the 71st minute, o Sims reduced to 3-1 for Mark Robbins’ team, while eight minutes later o O’Hare made it 3-2 and set the semi-final on fire.
Typically the home side believed it and began to press for an equaliser, but Onana held the lead in United’s favor until stoppage time.
Then a silly hand from Wan-Bissaka earned Coventry a penalty, with Wright to hit the spot-kick and send the match to overtime!
The extra half hour started with his goal Fernandeswith Ten Hag’s side having the initiative of the moves but often seeing Coventry threaten on the counter.
In fact, in the 116th minute it was the turn of the “sky blues” to miss the goal off the post, with Sims missing a huge goal by a few thousandths!
And in stoppage time, Thorpe sent the ball into the net from close range and shocked United, but after using VAR, the goal is disallowed for offside…
Somehow, qualification was decided on penalties. Things got off to a bad start for the Red Devils there, as Casemiro sent the ball past Collins, but an intervention by Onana and a penalty kick made it 4-2 to United, who escaped a megaton kazoo to make way for final.
Source: Sport Fm
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