Ten Hag’s Troops Cruise into Carabao Cup Final as Sancho and Martial Impress on Return
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MANCHESTER UNITED completed the formalities at Old Trafford - now for an epic clash at Wembley.
Goals in the 73rd and 76th minutes from the fit again Anthony Martial and Fred completed a convincing 5-0 aggregate victory over two legs of this Carabao Cup semi-final.
So on February 26th Erik Ten Hag’s men will face Eddie Howe’s resurgent Newcastle at the home of English football with so much on the line for both clubs.
Victory in what is traditionally considered the least important of all competitions the big clubs enter is enormous on this occasion.
For The Magpies, the Carabao Cup would represent the first trophy since the 1969 Fairs Cup and the first domestic honor since the 1955 FA Cup.
It would be a massive step on the march of a giant that was snoring and is now roaring.
For Manchester United, the trophy drought has of course been nowhere near as long.
But for a club so used to wearing out the silver polish each season it seems like an age since Jose Mourinho paraded that Europa League trophy in Stockholm back in 2017.
That was the same year in which he also claimed this competition in a cup double perhaps still underestimated in the club’s recent history.
Mourinho never really got the credit he deserved given the unsavory way his reign ended, as they so often do where the Special One is involved.
Three minutes later it was two as Bruno Fernandes’ cross was turned back across goal by Rashford and Fred turned it in for his second in as many games.
Job did and so to Wembley, to face The Toon............
Goals in the 73rd and 76th minutes from the fit again Anthony Martial and Fred completed a convincing 5-0 aggregate victory over two legs of this Carabao Cup semi-final.
So on February 26th Erik Ten Hag’s men will face Eddie Howe’s resurgent Newcastle at the home of English football with so much on the line for both clubs.
Victory in what is traditionally considered the least important of all competitions the big clubs enter is enormous on this occasion.
For The Magpies, the Carabao Cup would represent the first trophy since the 1969 Fairs Cup and the first domestic honor since the 1955 FA Cup.
It would be a massive step on the march of a giant that was snoring and is now roaring.
For Manchester United, the trophy drought has of course been nowhere near as long.
But for a club so used to wearing out the silver polish each season it seems like an age since Jose Mourinho paraded that Europa League trophy in Stockholm back in 2017.
That was the same year in which he also claimed this competition in a cup double perhaps still underestimated in the club’s recent history.
Mourinho never really got the credit he deserved given the unsavory way his reign ended, as they so often do where the Special One is involved.
Three minutes later it was two as Bruno Fernandes’ cross was turned back across goal by Rashford and Fred turned it in for his second in as many games.
Job did and so to Wembley, to face The Toon............