It was one of the biggest games in Brighton’s history, only the third time they had reached a major semi-final after 1983 when they beat Sheffield Wednesday and 2019 when they lost against Manchester City, also in this competition. Lindelöf stepped up in the middle, ably supported by Luke Shaw. It did not matter that the manager was without his starting centre-halves Lisandro Martínez and Raphaël Varane, plus the suspended Harry Maguire. Erik ten Hag had been fuming after the Europa League quarter-final exit against Sevilla last Thursday. When Lindelöf scored, Weghorst tore off alone to knee‑slide in front of the delirious United support.īrighton’s wait for a major trophy will go on but United have kept alive their hopes of a domestic cup double, the Carabao Cup already in the cabinet. In the meantime De Gea appeared to run his studs over the spot. Weghorst kissed the ball so perhaps he put some sort of curse on it. March was handed the ball for his penalty by another United replacement, Wout Weghorst, who had just scored. Victor Lindelöf watches his penalty beat Robert Sánchez to put Manchester United into the FA Cup final. The United goalkeeper made a clutch of fine saves – the best to deny Julio Enciso just before Welbeck’s moment. That and their failure to beat David de Gea over the 120 minutes. Their regrets took in a gilt-edged Danny Welbeck miss against his old club on 57 minutes and how Sánchez got his fingertips to the substitute Marcel Sabitzer’s penalty in the fifth round of the shootout he could only help it in. None of the Brighton players deserved this after they had gone toe-to-toe with United throughout a gripping showpiece. Not given how he had played here or how he has played throughout the best season of his career. The winger, a symbol of his club, did not deserve this. The sheer bottle that each of them showed to slow as they reached the spot before firing home was extraordinary. Both had missed here for England in the Euro 2020 final shootout defeat against Italy. Brighton were broken, nobody more so than Solly March who had blasted the previous kick over the crossbar – the only miss of a shootout in which Jadon Sancho, on as a substitute, and Marcus Rashford scored for United.
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