Manchester United is into the FA Cup quarterfinals for a seventh straight season. Bournemouth acquired there for under the second time in its 122-year historical past.
Scott McTominay’s 97th-minute strike earned United a 1-0 win over West Ham in a lackluster fifth-round match that required further time at snowy Old Trafford on Tuesday.
In one other demonstration of his rising assuredness in entrance of aim, the midfielder steered a volley into the underside nook after a neat lay-off by Marcus Rashford on the finish of a counterattack. The 24-year-old McTominay scored the winner towards Watford within the third spherical, and likewise netted in his final two Premier League video games.
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“Scott has really developed that part of his game this season,” United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer mentioned.
“We let him go into the field extra typically, unleash him. He’s an excellent striker of the ball, very scientific.
“He was a forward in his younger days and you can see the authority when he gets a chance to finish.”
United, a 12-time winner of the FA Cup, is accustomed to going deep in cup competitions below Solskjaer over the previous 12 months however the semifinals have been the ceiling, with the group shedding within the final 4 within the League Cup (twice), the FA Cup and the Europa League.
Along with the Europa League, the FA Cup seems to be to be United’s finest likelihood of amassing its first piece of silverware since 2017 after falling 5 factors behind Manchester City within the Premier League title race. City additionally has a recreation in hand.
West Ham, led by former Man United supervisor David Moyes, annoyed Solskjaer’s facet with a disciplined defensive efficiency however wasn’t helped by shedding three gamers Angelo Ogbonna (ankle), his substitute Issa Diop (head), and Andriy Yarmolenko (knee) to harm by the 54th minute. The group was already with out its solely senior striker, Michail Antonio, whose minutes have been being managed by Moyes after a current harm.
Diop was changed by Ryan Fredericks at halftime following a conflict of heads with Anthony Martial within the thirty seventh, making it the primary concussion substitute in English soccer. In a rule launched on a trial foundation for this season, groups are allowed to make use of a most of two concussion subs from the fifth spherical onward.
It can also be being trialed within the Premier League.
“We think he’s fine and I still think he’s fine,” Moyes mentioned. “But he had a bump on his head at halftime, and I chose to take no risks and took him off.”
64-YEAR WAIT ENDS
Second-division Bournemouth beat Burnley 2-0 and is in quarterfinals of the world’s oldest membership knockout competitors for the primary time because the 1956-57 season.
Goals by Sam Surridge and Junior Stanislas, from the penalty spot, noticed off a depleted Burnley facet at Turf Moor.Burnley was seeking to advance to the quarterfinals for the primary time because the 2002-03 season, however supervisor Sean Dyche selected to relaxation his key gamers together with all the first-choice protection and goalkeeper Nick Pope along with his group battling to keep away from relegation within the Premier League.
It later emerged that Burnley got here inside minutes of probably getting disqualified from the competitors after Dyche initially named Erik Pieters in his beginning lineup regardless of the left again being suspended for the sport after amassing yellow playing cards in every of the earlier two rounds.
Burnley was alerted to its error by Bournemouth officers simply earlier than kickoff and changed Pieters with Anthony Driscoll-Glennon.
“It was very gentlemanly of them,” Dyche mentioned.
Bournemouth, which was relegated from the highest flight final season, was being managed on an interim foundation by former Tottenham and Real Madrid defender Jonathan Woodgate following the current departure of Jason Tindall.The remaining six matches within the final 16 happen over Wednesday and Thursday.
