Manchester City will take on Tottenham in April’s Wembley showpiece aiming to win the Carabao Cup for a remarkable fourth consecutive year, a feat only Liverpool have achieved.
For Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Manchester United this was a fourth successive semi-final reverse: losing at the stage is becoming a habit they have to break. What killed them were the two latest episodes of slack defending from set-pieces. Each presaged John Stones and Fernandinho’s strikes. Here, too, is another bad practice that the manager bemoaned afterwards but the simple fact is that it is on him to eradicate.
Written by Jamie Jackson at Old Trafford
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jan/06/fernandinho-seals-another-carabao-cup-final-date-for-manchester-city under the title “John Stones sinks Manchester United and returns City to Carabao Cup final”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
