Poor Brighton. Poor Solly. But that FA Cup final has narrative out the wazoo.
You don’t need to be ABU to feel for March and Brighton, but that FA Cup final has all the #narrativeA Manchester Derby FA Cup final will be fun, especially if City are still in pursuit of the Treble, but we feel badly for Solly…It had been a good game, but a slightly strange one. Both teams played well without either Manchester United or Brighton really being able to argue they’d done quite enough in 90 or 120 minutes to truly deserve to win this FA Cup semi-final.
Admirable felt like the word for this game. Everyone was admirable. Everyone was good. There needn’t need to be a figure on whom the result is pinned. Which is, of course, the cruel irony of any game that goes to penalties: by definition, the game has been close and by definition some poor sod is about to be the central figure in defeat.
He was a surprise absence from the first five takers and he took a honkingly bad penalty in a shootout full of quite strikingly good ones when forced to the spot in sudden death. As ever, though, while March’s place in infamy is assured there is a case for greater attention to be focused on those who don’t take them.
Brighton will have little time to dwell on their disappointment, or ponder the agonising what ifs that will centre mainly on Robert Sanchez getting a good hand to Marcel Sabitzer’s penalty but not quite keeping it out. And that’s probably for the best. There’s a European spot to secure for next season and they should manage it.
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