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Manchester United legend and Leicester Metropolis boss Ruud van Nistelrooy made no secret of his displeasure with the truth that Harry Maguire’s last-gasp winner of their FA Cup fourth-round conflict at Previous Trafford was allowed to face.
Bobby De Cordova-Reid put Leicester forward simply earlier than half time. Alejandro Garnacho’s introduction on the interval breathed some life into United, as they began to play with extra urgency.
The Argentine winger delivered a cross into the field, which ended up within the path of fellow substitute Joshua Zirkzee. The Netherlands worldwide made no mistake, tapping it in from shut vary into the again of an empty aim.
It appeared like additional time can be wanted to interrupt the impasse however Maguire’s thumping header on the loss of life secured United the victory and despatched them to the fifth spherical of the competitors.
Replays confirmed that Maguire might have been in an offside place when Bruno Fernandes delivered the ball into his path.
The aim was not dominated out as a result of there was no VAR. In December, the FA introduced that VAR expertise would solely be used from the fifth spherical onwards within the FA Cup this season.
After the ultimate whistle, a seething Van Nistelrooy mentioned [via Express], “We aren’t defeated in Fergie time, we’re defeated in offside time. VAR wasn’t obligatory. VAR you may have for a few centimetres or a few inches.”
“This was half a metre, clear in line. That’s a tough one to take as a result of the crew deserved the draw in the long run, the additional time. We keep within the recreation and also you by no means know what occurs.”
“Was an excellent crew efficiency, began rather well, urgent United and on the ball very, very steady. We deserved to go 1-0 up into half-time.”
“After all we knew second half there was going to be some stress on us and a few probabilities however not even that a lot. So we deserved to enter additional time and go for the battle and perhaps penalties.”
“However yeah, choices like these, in our stage, are exhausting to swallow.”
Defeat at Previous Trafford implies that the Foxes have now suffered eight losses from their final 9 matches throughout all competitions.
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