United bump
For Anthony Elanga, a youth squad from the new batch of the Red Devils, destiny had prepared a heavy blow for him. The Swede was overwhelmed by a responsibility that did not correspond to him, that of qualifying Manchester United, on penalties, to the round of 16 of the FA Cup against a rival from the Championship. He kicked out and burst into tears. She was the image of the impotence of the Mancunians, for whom everything turns out the other way in recent times.
Rangnick’s men pressed with more heart than ideas and finished extra time in the rival area through sheer inertia, although Henderson had previously avoided an even greater collapse. Chris Wilder remains enlightened on his arrival in the north of England and nearly eliminated United before extra time.
But everything was decided on penalties, where the forces are even. Y It was Boro, after an agonizing shootout and sixteen pitches, who reached the round of 16 of the FA Cup. All the alarms went off at Old Trafford at a time not right for scares, with the fight for fourth place in the Premier red hot and with Atlético de Madrid on the horizon.
