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FULL TIME: Wigan Athletic 0-2 Manchester United
Manchester United will travel to Newport County or Eastleigh in the fourth round!
90 min +2: Wigan replace Godo with Lang, while United switch out Rashford and Hojlund for Hannibal and 19-year-old debutant Omari Forson.
90 min: On ITV, Ally McCoist names Diogo Dalot player of the match. There will be four added minutes.
89 min: Magennis bustles hard under a high ball in the United box, but can’t get it under control. Wigan have kept fighting to the end.
88 min: Varane shoots from the best part of 30 yards. It deflects wide left for a corner. Fernandes saunters over to take. Wigan half-clear. Mainoo crosses from the right. McTominay attempts to chest down but accidentally handles and doesn’t bother following up with a shot.
87 min: Pellistri comes on for Garnacho.
86 min: Fernandes hoicks a wild shot high and wide from 25 yards. He’s in relentless mode right now.
85 min: Aasgaard aims low and hard towards the bottom-left corner from 25 yards. Just wide, but Onana has it covered all the way.
83 min: The opening scorer Dalot is replaced by Kambwala. “That was a stone wall penalty all day long and I’m not a United fan,” writes Rick Harris. Ben Y adds: “No, sorry. Sod contact. That’s mental. I’ve no beef in this game. But I’d have massive issues if he was playing for my team, let alone being captain.” See, Super Ally was right. Opinion’s split.
82 min: Now it’s Garnacho who has a go from a tight angle on the left. Tickle sticks out a strong arm to deflect out for a corner. Fernandes takes the set piece, and whips into the side netting. Think he was looking to score himself there. He wasn’t far away.
81 min: Smith barrels down the right and fires a shot straight at Onana. United counter at speed, Rashford smashing a low shot from the left-hand edge of the six-yard box right at Tickle, who smothers.
79 min: McManaman’s first act is to attempt a reducer on Garnacho. The pair have a short conversation. It all calms down quickly enough.
78 min: Smith and McManaman – the man of the match in the 2013 final – replace Shaw and Jones.
76 min: That was the softest of penalties. There was minimal contact. Enough to make Fernandes go down? Perhaps not. But Shaw slid in carelessly, and what else is Fernandes going to do? Go down, is what. Penalty. Not sure VAR would have overturned it, either. “It will split opinion,” says Ally McCoist on ITV, and he’ll be proved right on the internet this evening, I’ll be bound. Anyway, Fernandes nearly puts this tie to bed once and for all by creaming a shot straight at Tickle, the keeper making a meal of tipping around the post. Nothing comes of the corner.
GOAL! Wigan Athletic 0-2 Manchester United (Fernandes 74 pen)
Magennis wags his finger in Fernandes’s face awhile. He’s fuming. Fernandes sends Tickle the wrong way and rolls the penalty into the bottom left. Such a cool finish.
Penalty to Manchester United!
72 min: Fernandes drops a shoulder just inside the box. Shaw comes sliding in, hanging out a leg. Fernandes doesn’t need another invitation. Boot touches boot and he goes down. The referee points to the spot. It’s soft, and Wigan are furious, but there was contact and Fernandes did what he had to do.
70 min: Jones attacks down the left and crosses low. Varane shovels clear from the middle of a crowded box. Sessegnon returns it to the mixer, throwing long. Fernandes hooks clear. After hanging on for so long, Wigan are beginning to dream again.
69 min: Tickle drop-kicks long and flat. It’s a cute gamble that very nearly releases Magennis on goal. Evans reads the danger and comes across to shepherd the ball through to Onana.
67 min: Wigan break immediately upfield through Godo, who tears into space down the left. He can’t find Jones in the middle, and Mainoo turns the ball out for a corner. From the set piece, Godo probes down the left again, and shoots from an extremely tight angle. Onana claims in the light-entertainment-infused juggling style.
66 min: Garnacho crosses from the right. The ball pings back to McTominay, who looks to scream a diagonal riser into the top-left. Hughes deflects out for a corner, from which Fernandes has a whack from the left-hand edge of the D. That’s deflected out too, and the third corner comes to nought.
64 min: A slight lull, during which the fans trade insults. Wigan taunt the United faithful with a chorus of We Support Our Local Team; the visiting fans reply with You’ve Only Come To See United. Spotify playlist up later.
63 min: Two United shots in short order. The first by Mainoo, towards the bottom-left corner and well saved by Tickle. The second clearing the bar in the rugby style by Dalot, who to be fair is still well in credit tonight.
61 min: Varane is good to continue. “I had assumed Aasgaard is in there to strengthen Wigan at the back?” writes Ken Burrell. From Norse mythology to bum jokes, your super soaraway Guardian covers all the bases.
60 min: Humphrys, who has been troubled with a hip problem, is replaced by Magennis. Meanwhile Varane continues to receive treatment; he took a proper clack on the nose there, with blood drawn.
58 min: Aasgaard and Varane compete for a high ball in the middle of the pitch. Both have their eyes clapped on the ball, but Aasgaard swings a cheeky left arm backwards and catches Varane square in the mush. It wasn’t the most vicious of swings, but you’ve seen referees flash red for less. Aasgaard probably fortunate that it’s a third-round tie between David and Goliath … and definitely fortunate that there’s no VAR.
56 min: Rashford is sent scampering into the Wigan box down the left. He’s got options in the middle, but Morrison sticks to his shoulder and puts him in two minds, and eventually he runs the ball out for a goal kick.
55 min: That’s given Wigan succour, and Godo makes good down the left. He swings towards the far stick. Too much on the cross for Aasgaard, who watches the ball sail over his head and out for a goal kick.
54 min: A rare sortie upfield for Wigan, Aasgaard nipping past a dozing Evans on the right and crossing low for Godo, who takes a fresh-air swing from close range. He should have worked Onana.
53 min: Varane picks up the pace. He drives forward and slides a pass to Fernandes, who shoots instead of feeding Hojlund to his right. He’s within his rights to do so, but the shot’s blocked and hindsight suggests he’d be better served in teeing up his striker.
52 min: United stroke it around patiently. Safe to say they’re better when they pick up the pace.
50 min: Tickle blooters a wild clearance into the heart of the Manchester United section, the fans responding with ironic cheers. Mention of which going to illustrate that there’s nowt much going on at the minute.
48 min: Dalot thinks about shooting from 25 yards, but opts to slide Rashford into space down the left instead. Rashford cuts infield before slicing a wild effort miles to the right of goal.
