WOLVES SEALED AN FA Cup semi-final spot as goals from Raul Jimenez and Diogo Jota saw off Manchester United 2-1 at Molineux.
It is the first time Nuno Espirito Santo’s side have reached the last four of the competition since 1997-98 and they thoroughly deserved their victory over an insipid United team.
Jimenez fired home inside a crowded area after 70 minutes before Jota turned Luke Shaw inside out to add a second six minutes later and put the game beyond United.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side – who had won nine away games in a row before last weekend’s Premier League defeat to Arsenal – did find a late consolation through Marcus Rashford but can have no complaints with the result.
Paul Pogba clipped wide and Marcus Rashford tested John Ruddy from distance as the hosts comfortably kept United at bay during a tepid opening half hour.
Shortly before the interval, Sergio Romero was out quickly to paw away a clean-through Jota’s effort after Wolves had countered quickly from a United corner.
Rashford blazed wide within a minute of the restart before Romero superbly tipped Jimenez’s header onto the crossbar.
The Argentina international was called into action again shortly before the hour mark, tipping over Joao Moutinho’s deflected effort after a period of intense Wolves pressure.
That pressure finally told 20 minutes from time when Jimenez swivelled among a posse of United players in the penalty area and sent a half-volley past Romero.
Another sharp Wolves counter-attack resulted in the second soon after as Jota left Shaw in a heap on the floor and drilled a low effort past Romero, who will feel that he should have done better.
A late red card for Victor Lindelof was overturned by VAR, which decided his foul on Jota was only worth a yellow card, before Rashford collected Shaw’s cross and buried it into the bottom corner with almost the last kick of the game.
However, it proved too little, too late for a United side who were well beaten by their less illustrious Premier League opponents.
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Oles wheels have fell of
Is Ole still the right man to take them forward to next season????
@Virgin Van Troll: D effort on trolling
@Johnny O Flaherty: of all people, you’d know
@Michael Mullins: hahahahahhaha
@Johnny O Flaherty: Trolling? Legitimate question from what I can see…notice all the question marks…there’s your clue.
@Damien Leen: the clue is actually in his name
@Virgin Van Troll: Woles beat Liverpool in fa cup
@Ciefy: beat manure too..
Wolves by far the better team, fair play and best of luck to em in the semis. Great performance from them, least said about us the better! Absolutely miles off it tonight
Looks like Pogba is back to his old self. Things look like they could get Messi pretty soon!
@Gary O’Rourke: you need to sell those lemons in your house Gary the bitterness will consume you.
@John Hayes: That’s the last you’ll see of him for a while. U gotta feel for the poor ould Devils. They got a little excited there but after suffering back to back defeats, they’ll all be going back into hiding pretty soon.
@Flaming Mo: I’ve no problem with decent United supporters who are willing to take off the rose tinted ones and engage in decent debate but the vitriol that lad is spouting is skutter.
@John Hayes: why has his comment been deleted? It’s making the 42 look like the GAA, an amateur set up!
@Flaming Mo: maybe finally they are cracking down on the posts they need to crack down on
@John Hayes: yea it looks that way but it makes the conversation look pretty silly after doing it
It’s okay they have enough quality to win the Champions League this season….
Bit nervous as a utd fan for this but fair play to wolves play great soccer and hopefully they beat city
@Johnny O Flaherty: when your profilers green street but ye call it soccer
@Ollie Watson: it’s called soccer because off gaa u clown
@Johnny O Flaherty: so what’s football then if there’s gaa and soccer
@Ollie Watson: soccer hurlin no and Gaelic football not rocket science
How many of that utd team would make that wolves team tonight ??? Think about it !
Coady showed up smalling
Moutinho showed up Herrera
Raul showed up martial ……..
The linesman done more running than pogba !
@conex: you can say that whenever a team losses? If barcelona lost to shamrock rovers then by virtue of the scoreline the barcelona players wouldn’t be better than their opposite number on the day. Terrible point to make
@Adam Morgan: 3 months of a honeymoon period ain’t gonna cover over the Cracks of a decade of extremely poor recruitment of players ……including Ferguson,s last 4 years !
@conex: Exactly. They have bought some shite. Fergie has a lot to answer for with the duds he bought in his last few years. Dunno how he won the last title but he knew when it was time to go.
Barcelona have nothing to worry about.
Molenoux was hopping
Ole out…
Herrera,Lingard and Martial didn’t look match fit , As for Pogba not really sure what to make of him, very poor tonight. He just seems to be ominous when he has the armband. But hats off to Wolves they came out fighting in the second half and deserved the win.
LET’S GO
They still seem to be suffering a hangover from PSG… would you take pochetino now over Ole?
Wolves deserved winners, play really good football!!
Genuine question who knocked Liverpool out?
Delighted for Doherty.
Sober Gavin told me that United where back on top. Hope he is still singing. Love that guy
Bottlers
Wolves have to buy jimenez from utd he’s worth every penny
@Eoin Murphy: …what???