Manchester United comfortably defeated League One outfit Wigan Athletic to advance within the 2023/24 FA Cup. Objectives from Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes ensured Erik ten Hag’s facet reached the spherical of 32 for the tenth straight season. Wigan Athletic now exits the competitors within the third spherical for the fourth time within the final six seasons.
Regardless of enjoying a third-tier facet within the English pyramid, Manchester United named a robust squad that featured the standard gamers that begin within the Premier League. That helped Manchester United present its dominance early on on this sport. Nonetheless, it was Wigan to have the most effective likelihood to start out the sport. After three minutes, Andre Onana smothered an try from Thelo Aasgaard. A harmful try nearly put United behind inside 5 minutes.
Nonetheless, United shortly turned the sport round to guide in each statistical class. By the tip of the sport, United launched 33 photographs towards the Wigan internet and 14 hit the goal. Wigan goalkeeper Sam Tickle had a robust sport with a complete of 10 saves.
But, there was nothing Tickle might do about United’s opener after 22 minutes. Diogo Dalot collected a go from Marcus Rashford on the sting of the Wigan space. The Portuguese full-back fired a exact right-footed shot into the left-hand publish of Tickle. That was the one purpose of the primary half, but it surely might have been far worse for Wigan.
Manchester United hit the crossbar twice within the first half. In ten minutes, Rasmus Hojlund headed the ball off the crossbar. Alejandro Garnacho then rattled the woodwork with a robust shot that beat Tickle. That shot was one of some within the first half that got here ever so near moving into for United.
Second-half dominance from United in FA Cup defeats Wigan
Wigan didn’t discover any solace within the second half from the onslaught of United strain. Kobbie Mainoo and Scott McTominay had actual alternatives to attain early within the second half. It took a penalty for United to lastly double its lead. A theatrical dive from Bruno Fernandes performed as much as the official to get the penalty. There was contact, however Fernandes made probably the most of it. Fernandes stepped as much as convert the penalty with an effort into the underside left nook.
United had the rest of the robust probabilities, which prevented Wigan from having any significant makes an attempt on purpose.
United to face lower-tier groups in subsequent spherical
Manchester United is awaiting its opponent within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup. Fourth-tier Newport County is touring to Eastleigh within the Nationwide League in a replay following their 1-1 draw. The winner of that sport is internet hosting Manchester United in late January. For audiences in america, that sport, in addition to each different within the FA Cup, is offered on ESPN+.
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Based mostly on the pairings from the remainder of the FA Cup fourth-round draw, there won’t be too many Premier League groups remaining after the fourth spherical. That presents a significant alternative for Erik ten Hag, who’s attempting to win his second trophy with Manchester United.
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