{"id":28291,"date":"2024-04-22T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T08:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=28291"},"modified":"2024-04-22T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T08:06:41","slug":"man-united-survives-coventry-faces-man-city-in-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/22\/man-united-survives-coventry-faces-man-city-in-fa-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United Survives Coventry, Faces Man City in FA Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United secured their spot in the FA Cup final after a tense encounter against Coventry on Sunday. Initially dominating the match, the Red Devils seemed assured of their victory, fueled by goals from Scott McTominay, Harry Maguire, and Bruno Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Manchester United&#8217;s commanding lead, Coventry, appearing in their first FA Cup semi-final since 1987, staged a remarkable comeback. Ellis Simms and Callum O\u2019Hare found the net, narrowing the gap between the two teams. Haji Wright then converted a crucial stoppage-time penalty, intensifying the drama.<\/p>\n<p>In a nerve-wracking turn of events, Coventry&#8217;s substitute Victor Torp appeared to seal an improbable victory with a late goal. However, their joy was short-lived as the goal was disallowed, maintaining the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>The match extended to a dramatic penalty shootout, during which Casemiro missed a crucial spot kick for Manchester United. Yet, the team rallied, and Rasmus Hojlund&#8217;s successful penalty ultimately propelled them into the final against arch-rivals Manchester City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United secured their spot in the FA Cup final after a tense encounter against Coventry on Sunday. Initially dominating the match, the Red Devils seemed assured of their victory, fueled by goals from Scott McTominay, Harry Maguire, and Bruno Fernandes. Despite Manchester United&#8217;s commanding lead, Coventry, appearing in their first FA Cup semi-final since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-28291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28313,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291\/revisions\/28313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}