Manchester United left late to beat Leicester City in the fourth FA Cup round and required a winner of Harry Maguire’s stoppage time to get over the line in Old Trafford.
The Red Devils were once again below their best, especially in the opening hour, when they tried to leave an impression on a Leicester team that scraped in the Premier League for their lives.
Bobby Decordova -Reid’s goal four minutes before the half -time interval gave United the first goal for the seventh time in the last eight home games, but this time they turned the game upside down to get into the fifth round of the FA Cup – a competition are Owner after having hit Manchester City in the final last season.
Substitutes Joshua Zirkzee Drew United Level Following Good Work from Substitute Alejandro Garnacho, Before Maguire, Who Replays Suggested What Half A Yard Offside When Bruno Fernandes’ Free Kick Into the Box, Buried A 93rd Heads Header Past Mads To Ensure Extra Time was not needed – of course only in the fifth round.
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For most of January it was unclear whether Alejandro Garnacho would remain a united player.
Chelsea and Napoli were interested and United’s attitude, although they did not want to actively sell the Argentine, was that a deal could be completed if good money was offered. Garnacho finally represents a pure profit because he completed the club’s academy.
With these evidence, it is a good job that United has not received an offer that they wanted to accept. Kobbie Mainoo did not see his new role completely, while Rasmus Hojlund’s self -confidence could not be lower if it tried. His complete lack of motion proof for this.
Garnacho’s introduction changed things and brought new energy and new ideas in United’s attack game. He tried to break the lines and use his speed to either burst inside or outside of James Justin, and he played Clevere Give, and GOS who were caught gave Leicester’s players something he could actually think about.
It was further proof that Garnacho experiences what Amorim wants from him – the recent praise of the Portuguese for his improvement, which has completely justified in these evidence.
What used to be frightened by the immune system was how quickly Manchester United could go through the gears and jumped forward in the blink of an eye with an eye of the needle pass or a darting run.
United also bullied that she liked her opposition in errors, dominated the middle of the park and turned the possession at will. These things just don’t happen.
For 65 minutes, Leicester was the better team in every discipline, united toothless in everything they did. It is a recurring topic under Amorim, which somehow has to raise and persuade his players to start the games faster and with more intensity. Too often they stand behind the eight ball and you will not always recover as you did here.
The signing of a new left wing back was a priority for Amorim from the moment when he went through the doors in Carrington.
Luke Shaw is permanently injured, Diogo Dalot is not good enough to consistently play on the left flank, and Noussair Mazraoui is also not a left -wing bridge. For this reason, there was a real interest in signing Nuno Mendes from Paris Saint-Germain, which is why eggs worth 29.2 million GBP were brought in Lecces basket for Patrick Dorgu.
So there was a great feeling of anticipation when Dorgu was called in the start of United. Everyone assumed that Dalot would return to the right when Mazraoui entered Center-Back for the affected Lisandro Martinez.
Only Amorim had something completely different in mind.
Dorgu, bizarre, set up on the right to double the full -back Luke Thomas with the in the form of Amad Diallo on Leicester. It only lasted 45 minutes, won six of his 11 duels and had an accuracy of 82%. Nevertheless, he didn’t try a single dribble and always shaped to get into his stronger left foot to free himself from the width that you would expect from an overlapping wing back.
It was a strange decision by Amorim and ultimately one that in the great scheme of things in the big scheme – United lost half, had no injection of speed in her game and had to change things. He seemed to have at least a half decent connection with Amad.
After the players from United had not registered a shot on the goal in the first half, the players were understandably boosted by the domestic believers.
But it’s not just in the field of affairs that disturb the fans. According to many, the Red Devils had a fairly ordinary transmission window in January, which apparently accepted that the rest of the 2024/25 campaign will be a bit of a depreciation. To hell, Amorim expressly said that further pain will come.
So if you don’t really invest in the players to improve the current season on a Friday evening when the meeting of the league was a sold -out sale to £ 30.
United’s fans also got the same tastick, which led to a banner being developed and simply was: ‘£ 66, your debts not our’. The earlier the club realizes that it sucks the soul of all those who appear in Old Trafford every week, the better.
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