Manchester United eliminates Coventry to be finalist in the FA Cup

London. Manchester United will face their neighbors City in the English Cup final, after having defeated modest Coventry in a crazy semi-final this Sunday (3-3, 4-2 on penalties).

Los diablos reyeswho led 3-0 with 20 minutes remaining, saw their English second division rival equalize in added time and send the match to extra time and penalties.

The Dane Rasmus Hojlund, with the last throw, buried the hopes of the current eighth-ranked team in the Championshipwho missed two shots from eleven meters after having taken the lead in the shootout following a mistake by Brazilian Casemiro, formerly of Real Madrid.

Los red devils They will try to get revenge on May 25 at Wembley over their neighbor City, who defeated them 2-1 in the last Cup final, last June in north London.

The FA Cup champion gets a ticket to the next Europa Leaguea golden opportunity for the current seventh-placed team in the Premier.

The team led by Erik ten Hag first benefited from the opponent’s defensive gaps and then paid for their own.

Scott McTominay (23, 1-0), alone with an empty goal, pushed in a powerful cross from Diogo Dalot. Harry Maguire (45+1, 2-0) took advantage of a mistake in marking to head in a corner from Bruno Fernandes, the 3-0 scorer in the 58th minute.

Coventry City launched their comeback through Ellis Simms (71, 3-1), the sixth goal in the last three games of the Cup for the 23-year-old forward.

Then, United left-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka deflected a shot from Callum O’Hare into his goal (79, 3-2), before committing a handball in added time inside the area that led to a penalty tie for United. American forward Haji Wright.

In extra time, the modest team hit the crossbar (116) and scored a goal through Victor Torp (120+1) that was annulled by the VAR due to the passer’s previous offside.

“We put ourselves in a difficult position and we should have killed the game earlier, but we didn’t,” said Bruno Fernandes. “We have to do much better,” acknowledged the Portuguese attacking midfielder.