In one of the most important matches for Fulham in recent times, ended up being removed from the FA Cup for him Manchester United in the quarterfinalsbut the bitter taste is greater when it all began with a series of neglect by its most important leaders, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Marco Silva, who left expelled in an unusual way.
Despite the fact that they went ahead with a score from the scorer of the Serbian National Team, and one of the Cottagers’ captains, in the 70th minute of the match everything changed, since VAR reviewed a Willian Borges penalty and referee Chris Kavanagh ended up signaling the maximum penalty in favor of the Red Devils, subsequently expelling the Brazilian for committing hand to save his own.
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After a series of actions in which those led by Erik ten Hag were already insistently putting pressure on the visitors, Antony and Jadon Sancho escaped at speed to take Craven Cottage’s badly off and when it seemed that the former Borussia Dortmund player would score 1-1, Willian came to save on the line, but he did it with his right arm.
After the claims of the players of the Old Trafford team, the VAR asked the referee to go see the action on the monitor at the side of the field, but when he had just a few moments to do so, The high demands of the Portuguese technical director, Marco Silva, did not like the central judge and he ended up expelling him in minute 72..
Unfortunately this did not stop there for the visiting team, because following the red card shown to the most important leader of Fulham, Mitrovic continued with strong words towards the 37-year-old referee, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was the moment the Serb began to push the referee. and the consequence was a new expulsion for the Cottagers in Mancunian territory.
Red Devils somersault
With the penalty awarded, Bruno Fernandes was in charge of coming to execute it and sending the ball to the bottom of the nets of the goal defended by Bernd Leno, with which everything was equalized by the minimum at 75 ‘. The cartwheel came to fruition in minute 77 thanks to a goal scored by Marcel Sabitzer and the final result was 3-1 of the Manchester United with a doublet of the member of the Portugal National Team.