Altay Bayindir saved Havertz penalty in shootout and Odegaard’s penalty in normal time
Joshua Zirkzee celebrates scoring Manchester United's fifth penalty in the shoot-out against Arsenal in the FA Cup third-round game at the Emirates Stadium. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Images
Now for Zirkzee and a moment of near perfect narrative. When he buried his kick into the bottom corner, the United support would sing his name again. With real feeling. United seemed to trade exclusively in drama on their way to winning the FA Cup last season. They are up and running once more. United were bitterly upset with that decision. There would be worse to come for them. Havertz had sliced wide when well placed in the 54th minute and Arsenal turned the screw against the 10 men, Gabriel lashing home the equaliser on the half-turn after Bayindir could not get distance on a clearing punch. Gabriel was aided by a deflection off Matthijs de Ligt.
A melee broke out, fury everywhere; a few head-to-head confrontations, including Manuel Ugarte against Havertz, who again went down. Ødegaard was forced to wait to take the penalty and when he went to Bayindir’s left, he found that the goalkeeper had read him. The spectacle had been undermined in the first half of regulation time by the tedious wrestling matches that broke out on Arsenal corners; when the home team delayed the taking of them, it only prolonged the messiness. Is this what football has become? Madley had his work cut out, mainly to decide who was faking what.
When Noussair Mazraoui cut back from the right, Fernandes had the position on Jesus on the edge of the area and, shaping to shoot, he felt him nibble at him. Fernandes lost his boot in the incident but Madley said no foul, much to the United captain’s fury. When Fernandes collected his boot, he threw it down and was booked. Jesus, however, had jarred something in making the challenge and he was taken away on a stretcher.
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