In this FA Cup last eight match, Manchester United lined up in 4231 at home, with defenders Varane, Lindelof, Wan-Bissaka, Dalot, backs Mainoo, McTominay, attacking midfielder B Faye, wings Rashford, Garnacho, and strikers Højlund, who is finally back from injury.
Liverpool out of 433, defenders Van Dijk, Quansah, Gomez, Robertson, midfielders Hikaru Endo, MacAllister, Szoboszlai, strikers Salah, Luis Diaz, Darwin Núñez.
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United started off playing aggressively. Manio threw himself forward into the attack from the start, even rushing into the box to shoot. Manio did the same. Liverpool seemed to be under pressure from United and found it difficult to make a threatening counterattack. As a result, the game lasted only 9 minutes. The in-form Manio flicked a shot from outside the box on the left side, through the Liverpool defensive zone. Manio followed up his shot from outside the box at high speed and the ball was blocked by the keeper. However, Manio has followed the goal in front of goal and United are ahead with nine minutes to go
You can see Garnacho, who is supposed to play right wing, unconsciously run to his left on this ball and link up with Rashford, which is a big positional change. They don't usually do that if they aren't set up in advance. United seemed very confident in their tactical cooperation while Liverpool didn't make a good cooperation in the first 10 minutes.
After about 30 minutes, you could see that United's passing was very confident and fluid. However, as United's backs are all attacking, there is, in fact, space around the waist. If Liverpool wanted to attack, they had chances, but the United defense also protected their position surprisingly well. Liverpool had a good shot at goal, but Oona extinguished it
Garnacho and Rashford swapped places after United took the lead. Today, United's left and right flanks were very flexible. As a result, in the 34th minute, Rashford suddenly became the left wing. At this point, Garnacho went back to the right. Rashford sprinted to the bottom of the left penalty area and passed it into the middle of the road. mctominay middle of the road inserted an 11-yard throw-in, and Liverpool's defense was almost mobilized to open up the area. Luckily the goalkeeper was kept out but United were very flexible with their switching of wings and this should be seen as United's smoothest switching of wings from the start of the season to now
Liverpool finally got their offense going in the 35th minute. They originally wanted to play Salah on the right, but Wan-Bissaka stood and held it well, resulting in a lackluster attack. That's when they started playing the ball on the left. Robert clearly walked the line on the left, maximized the space on the edge, and then crossed diagonally for LuisDiaz to slice in and receive the ball, intentionally widening the area so United couldn't defend
Finally, in the 41st minute, Liverpool made a couple of attacks on the left side of the field and passed back to Quahsah, who had already taken the ball around the 30-yard box, and United's whole formation was pulled. Quansah suddenly took the ball from the right side of the field and passed it to Darwin Núñez, who reacted quickly to flick the ball back, allowing MacAllister to come up to the 16-yard box to score the equalizer.
The best thing about this ball is Darwin Núñ's handling in the ez, he's made sure the ball is too far back before he catches it. He couldn't turn and shoot. In the past, he would have stopped and tried to twist and shoot straight away, but now he was very calm and flicked the ball to a teammate first time. This treatment doesn't stop so that United's defense doesn't have time to stare at people and there's a gap between the Macallisters
When Liverpool's momentum came, they had to be pressured again. Before the end of the first half they suddenly made a high robbery. As a result Gomez suddenly joined the fight to rob B fee at 46, passing directly to the center, then LuisDiaz got the ball in the center and then Darwin on the left. Núñez took the kick, Onana barely blocked it but Salah took the ball directly in front of the goal 6 yards to add to the score, as a result, Liverpool suddenly went beyond the scoreline.
