United showed their flaws but they didn’t matter in a crazy 4-3 win after extra time.
Gavin Cooney LOGIC DICTATED THAT Liverpool would win this FA Cup tie and so Old Trafford rightly routed any semblance of sense.Let’s face it, Football, Bloody Hell is the only creed worth living by when you’re 3-2 down with eight minutes to go and held together by gaffer tape and desperation; when you’re centre-back is a hobbling Bruno Fernandes and your left-back is yesthatisactuallyAntony.
It cost them in the league game against United, it cost them against City last week, and it cost them again today. With Aaron Wan-Bissaka picked at left-back and instructed to glue himself to Mohamed Salah, Jarrell Quansah strode forward and spotted a gap created by Salah’s width, slipping through a powderpuff Marcus Rashford challenge. Alex MacAllister then rifled in an equaliser, via the first of the day’s determining deflections.
Salah was the guiltiest of them all, inexplicably passing up shooting opportunities to play poorly-judged passes. He was off the pitch for the waste that most infuriated Klopp, as Cody Gakpo ruined a five-on-two break by playing the ball behind Harvey Elliot. Gakpo is a strangely feeble player: he calls to mind Pat Gilroy’s deathless line about startled earwigs.
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