Manchester United beat West Ham United McTominay (97′ minutes) scored the only goal of the game last night.
“We needed to have a good result and a good feeling today because we were low after the Everton game,” he said.
“That was hard to take but they were really focused and did the job.”
“Last Saturday was tough – especially in the second half,” he said.
“We showed great spirit and a good mentality to come back and perform. We know it’s a long season and tonight was perfect. It’s important to get through.”
“He was fine and I think he is fine,” said Moyes. “But he had a bump on the head and we didn’t want to take any chances.
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“I hope there are no problems. I don’t think there is.”
Man Utd’s record-equalling run – the stats from BBC
- Manchester United have won their last nine home FA Cup matches, their joint-longest home winning run in the competition, equalling their nine consecutive home wins between 1908 and 1912.
- West Ham have now been eliminated in each of their last four FA Cup ties against Manchester United, losing in a different round each time: fourth round in 2002-03, third round in 2012-13, quarter-final in 2015-16 and fifth round in 2020-21.
- Scott McTominay has scored seven goals in 30 appearances for Manchester United this season – as many as he scored in his 84 appearances in his first four seasons between 2016-17 and 2019-20.
- Marcus Rashford registered his ninth assist in all competitions for Manchester United this season, his best return in a single campaign for the club and second only to Bruno Fernandes for the Red Devils in 2020-21 (11).
- Aged 23 years and 101 days, Marcus Rashford became the fourth youngest player in Manchester United’s history to reach 250 games for the club, behind only Norman Whiteside (22 years 192 days), George Best (22 years 199 days) and Ryan Giggs (22 years 301 days).
- Both Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial played their 250th matches for Man Utd in the same game tonight, only the second time in the club’s history that has happened – the other occasion was also at home against West Ham, in August 1986 when both Mike Duxbury and Frank Stapleton did so.
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