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Manchester United secured a spot within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup after an impressive defensive show noticed them dump Arsenal out of the competitors on the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Amorim’s facet took the lead by way of a tremendous Bruno Fernandes strike earlier than Gabriel’s deflected effort drew the house facet degree.
The sport burst into life with an incident-packed second interval that included a Diogo Dalot crimson card and a Martin Odegaard penalty miss, alongside the 2 objectives that adopted a forgettable first interval.
Odegaard’s spot-kick was expertly saved by United stopper Altay Bayindir, after referee Andrew Madley pointed to the spot underneath extremely controversial circumstances.
Madley fell for Kai Havertz’ act of manipulating contact with Harry Maguire within the United penalty space which sparked a mass brawl between the 2 units of gamers.
With no VAR to overturn the apparent error, United had been enraged and the gamers began focusing on Havertz out for his blatant dive.
Manuel Ugarte was one of many first on the scene to confront the German, with photos and movies later rising which confirmed the United man showing to push his head into the face of Havertz.
The ‘headbutt’ got here after Havertz had put his arms across the Uruguayan’s neck with replays not significantly beneficial for both celebration.
As reported by The Mirror, Ugarte may now face a retrospective ban for his actions with the FA wanting into the incident within the coming days.
Ugarte was maybe lucky VAR was not current in North London with most acts of potential violent conduct punished with a straight crimson card these days.
Nonetheless, no hurt was finally finished to both participant with Havertz enjoying as a lot, if no more, of a task within the incident.
Ought to the midfielder be discovered responsible, he may miss as much as three video games for United which might symbolize an enormous blow to Ruben Amorim’s plans.
Ugarte has been in spectacular kind over the previous few weeks and is now arguably the primary identify on the teamsheet at Outdated Trafford.
United will hope the FA look impartially into the matter and punish Havertz as a substitute and never punish the 23-year-old because the membership purpose for a powerful second half of the marketing campaign.
Characteristic picture Julian Finney through Getty Photos
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