Morgan Gibbs-White has furiously taken to social media to provide evidence for why Manchester United’s late FA Cup goal should have been disallowed. Midfielder Casemiro stooped to head home Bruno Fernandes’s free kick in the 89th minute, setting up a crunch quarter-final clash with Liverpool.
Nottingham Forest had the better chances in the fifth-round tie but failed to beat the in-form Andre Onana. The Midlands outfit will now be left frustrated after feeling that Casemiro’s goal should have been chalked off, which would have sent the game into extra-time and a potential penalty shootout.
Gibbs-White pointed out that there were similarities between the goal and the one Virgil van Dijk had disallowed in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final. The former England U21 international took screenshots of both incidents and posted them alongside each other on Instagram.
In the Carabao Cup final, Van Dijk had his strike from a similar set-piece scenario chalked off before he scored the winning goal against the Blues in extra-time. Wataru Endo had been in an offside position when he blocked Levi Colwill from getting back to mark Van Dijk.
It was deemed that Endo had made a “deliberate play” while in an offside position and the goal was therefore ruled out. Liverpool had a similar situation two years prior when Joel Matip had a header disallowed in the 2022 Carabao Cup final victory over Chelsea.
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