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Legendary Premier League striker Alan Shearer has lauded the Manchester United trio of Altay Bayindir, Harry Maguire and Matthijs de Ligt for his or her respective performances within the FA Cup victory towards Arsenal.
Bruno Fernandes broke the impasse moments after the break however Gabriel Magalhães equalised for the hosts after Diogo Dalot was despatched off for a second bookable offence.
The Gunners blew the prospect to go 2-1 up when Martin Ødegaard had a controversial penalty saved by Bayindir, who bought the nod to start out between the sticks forward of Andre Onana.
Bayindir additionally made a string of fantastic saves in direction of the tip of standard time, to maintain his aspect within the sport.
Finally, a penalty shootout was wanted to settle the tie and Bayindir saved yet one more penalty, this time denying Kai Havertz.
Joshua Zirkzee buried his successful kick into the nook to ship United by way of to the fourth spherical of the competitors, the place they are going to face Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester Metropolis.
There have been different a number of standout performers, together with Maguire and De Ligt, who have been stable for your complete sport.
Talking on BBC after the ultimate whistle, Shearer lauded Bayindir, De Ligt and Maguire.
The previous Newcastle man stated [via The Daily Mail], “He [Bayindir] holds his nerve, he doesn’t blink first.”
“It was a three-way tie between him and De Ligt and Maguire who I believed have been additionally excellent however simply due to his penalty save, I believed I’d give it to him [the man of the match award].”
“If you get given a possibility, you must take it and he took it as we speak.”
On Dalot’s purple card, Shearer pointed out, “As soon as he [Dalot] commits to go in for that problem he’s bought to win that ball. He is aware of what will occur if he doesn’t.”
“Even the slightest contact, he’s going over. You possibly can’t actually complain with that if you’re on a yellow card. Should you’re going to make that problem, you must rise up and you must win that ball.”
Up subsequent for Rubem Amorim and his gamers is a house assembly with Southampton on Thursday.
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