Man Utd in FA Cup Final v Man City

AFTER a semi‐final victory on penalties against Brighton at Wembley on Sunday April 23, Manchester United have an FA Cup Final clash with Man City to look forward to.

Manchester United scraped through their FA Cup semi‐final with Brighton 7‐6 on penalties. In the process, they set up a mouthwatering final with Manchester City at Wembley on June 3.

Erik ten Hag’s side went into this match off the back of a terrible Europa League drubbing at the hands of Sevilla in midweek. His misfiring players failed once again to find the back of the net dur‐ing 120 minutes of open play against the Seagulls as they played out an exciting 0‐0 draw.

It took a total of 13 penalty kicks before either side could claim the tie. The unlucky candidate who failed with the 12th kick was Brighton winger Solly March. He was understandably incon solable after Victor Lindelof stepped up to bury penalty number 13 to steal the tie.

Julio Enciso came close to putting Brighton ahead in the second half, only to be denied once again by De Gea. Danny Welbeck headed a corner wide shortly after as well. If Jadon Sancho ‐ on as a sub ‐ had hit the target towards the end of normal time, the tie would have been decided. In‐stead, his curled effort flew over the bar.

AN aircraft due to fly the Arsenal women’s football team from Germany back to London burst into flames on the runway dur‐ing takeoff.

The Arsenal women’s football team was in ‐volved in a dramatic inci‐dent on Sunday, April 23, after an aircraft due to fly them back to London from Germany caught fire on the runway, as report‐ed by a news source.

At around 7.30pm, they were seated inside the Boeing 737 at Braun ‐schweig Wolfsburg Air ‐port with the aircraft preparing to take off.

At this point, it is uncon‐firmed, but it was thought that a bird possibly flew into the turbine of the left‐hand engine. It subse ‐quently produced a ‘loud bang’ and burst into flames. Images showed a spectacular fireball around the engine.

Eyewitnesses reported a loud bang. The pilot had to abort the take‐off and was able to manoeuvre the plane back into the parking position on his own. An airport spokesperson told the news outlet that the facili‐ty’s fire brigade was on‐site immediately, but did not have to intervene.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt, and the pilots quickly evacuated all the passen‐gers. “Our aircraft devel‐oped a technical issue pri‐or to take‐off in Germany on Sunday evening,” said a statement from Arsenal.

It continued: “As a re‐sult, we remained in Wolfsburg overnight on Sunday before flying back to England on Monday af‐ternoon. We would like to thank the staff onboard the aircraft and on the ground at the airport for their assistance.”

The players had been in Germany where they held Wolfsberg to a 2‐2 draw in their Champions League match.