Manchester Utd survive epic Coventry comeback to reach FA Cup final | FA Cup
This was the mom and father of all FA Cup ties and ultimately Manchester United one way or the other scraped by means of 4-2 on penalties, after a past valiant Coventry Metropolis pulled again a 3-0 deficit at 71 minutes, forcing extra-time within the Ninety fifth-minute of the conventional through Haji Wright’s cooler than cool equalising penalty. When the shootout got here Bradley Collins saved Casemiro’s opener earlier than Coventry took a 2-1 lead by means of Wright and Victor Torp, who had had a aim disallowed through VAR within the ultimate minute of additional time. However sheer heartache adopted for the Sky Blues – they might not register once more. Following Christian Eriksen making it 2-2, Andre Onana dived proper to save lots of Callum O’Hare’s effort, Bruno Fernandes made it 3-2 for United, after which, agonisingly, the Coventry captain, Ben Sheaf, skied his try. This left Rasmus Hojlund to place Erik ten Hag’s embattled males right into a second consecutive Cup ultimate towards Manchester Metropolis: he did, the strike clear and to Collins’s left. Earlier than all of this Ten Hag’s aspect had been cruising, United’s delighted followers chant of “Bruno, Bruno”…