Manchester United’s season continued when they were thrown out of the fifth FA Cup round by Fulham in Old Trafford.
Ruben Amorim’s Red Devils was unable to achieve a penalty shootout, as they had done in the third round against Arsenal, and succumbed to 4: 3 after the game ended 1-1 after 120 minutes of regulatory game.
Calvin Bassey gave Fulham the lead from a corner shortly before half -time, with the results increased by Bruno Fernandes in the second half. None of the two side could find another breakthrough, which was removed from Bernd Leno’s heroic heroism from 12 meters.
How the game unfolds
If there was ever an occasion for Amorim’s Manchester United to awaken from their sleep, they would have hoped that a FA Cup Fifth Runde in Old Trafford would do the trick – possibly the only sustainable vehicle in the club to secure European football next season.
But screenplays with the 13-fold Premier League champions are no longer written in the same way, especially when it comes to quick starts or any kind of quality of the first half.
Rasmus Hojlund’s near-area effort after Christian Eriksen’s low cross from outside of the frontpost, which is about as good as for United in the first 45.
Fulham grew in the game when half continued and the ball brought the ball more and more, and might have scored the first goal of the game when Sasa Lukic was wrong to guide Alex Iwobis in the middle.
However, this disappointment did not take long, since an inevitable decay in United concentration from a Fulham corner made it possible Basey to open the rating. Rodrigo Muniz hiked from his marker away and his cut header was shot home by the former Ajax defender at the rear post, who reacted much faster than Nussair Mazraoui to push the ball past Andrea.
Amorim had made four substitutions, including the introduction of Alejandro Garnacho, before UNITED woke up and found that they had a merchant to get in again. Usually it was Fernandes that remained the moment of quality at 20 minutes and fired the low cross in the back corner without taking a first touch.
United looked brighter with the injection of Garnacho’s pace, but neither he nor Fulham’s Emile Smith Rowe, who drew a fingertip in front of Onana, could prevent the game from walking for 30 minutes.
Garnacho shot in Leno’s page set when the extension began before Chido Obi had a nice stopover from the German fingertips. At the other end, Ryan Sessegtnon, another replacement, Onana, forced to save the hosts.
In the end, punishments were necessary to decide who would go through the last eight – Fulham finally prevailed thanks to Leno’s rejection of Victor Lindelof and Joshua Zirkzee.
Penalty shootout
The end of the 2024/25 season cannot come fast enough for Manchester United.
Ruben Amorim knew that he took responsibility from the first day, but even he has to be amazed at how United apparently went under his guidance and rather forward.
For the X -Ten, the performance of United was lukewarm in the first half, poor and just bad. They created almost nothing and, when it was really important, they could fall back at half of the half.
United was missing a number of players due to an injury and had very little on the bench – another reason why this campaign cannot end quickly enough. Amorim needs this summer transfer window, which is open to open open, maybe more than any other manager in the world.
This was not an exemplary Fulham performance in a section of the imagination, which turns out to be a very impressive season.
But if you hadn’t seen much of Marco Silva’s team this season before the game, it would not have taken long to get excited about what they were. Organized, committed and united, with the spread of determination that are necessary in order to be successful at the highest level.
You have high -quality players in your ranks – Muniz, Antonee Robinson and Emile Smith Rowe, to name just three – and obviously have a playing style where you worked in training and training. The exact opposite of what they faced.
It shouldn’t be a surprise to do the work from home, since Fulham has the third best points per game record of a team in the Premier League, only behind Liverpool and Arsenal.
The poor Rasmus Hojlund has now played 18 games without scoring a goal, and apart from a semi -cancellation in the first 12 minutes, this did not seem to change against Fulham.
The dane was separated by the disappointing Joshua Zirkzee for large parts of the game and with Joachim Andersen and Calvin Bassey, while his other United teammates were about 10 to 15 meters behind the game.
Hojlund tried to make runs in the channels, at least some variations for his own game, but his self -confidence looks completely shot. The only player who is able to offer high-quality service is Bruno Fernandes, but he was stuffed into a deep midfield for the entire time when the 22-year-old was on the field.
Inevitably scored Fernandes as soon as Hojlund started. Football, what?
Take a look at the ratings of MAN UTD 1-1 Fulham players Here.