Manchester United's latest game-changer makes a difference in win before Fulham's three red cards

Manchester United were involved in the five-minute final in 1979 and this was the five-minute quarter-final. Fulham clutched defeat from the jaws of victory in a madcap and chaotic five minutes in scenes more befitting a WWE event.

In those five minutes, there were three red cards, two goals and one penalty. Both goals went in at the Stretford End, which witnessed another remarkable recovery from United.

"We're on the march with Ten Hag's army, we're all going to Wembley," they chorused at full-time. After nearly five years without a trip to the national stadium, United's followers will be back on April 23 in the semi-finals.

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Until Willian's impromptu goalkeeping, United were lifeless and destined to depart the FA Cup at the quarter-finals for the fifth time in the last nine seasons. The Fulham manager Marco Silva, expelled before any of his players, could be seen skulking around the tunnel in the 82nd minute, his team 2-1 down. Ten minutes earlier, they were 1-0 up.

The dust had already settled by then. Had Silva viewed a replay of Willian's handball, he would not have launched a water bottle to the turf and embarked on a tirade that the fourth official, David Coote, deemed worthy of expulsion.

Had Aleksandar Mitrovic, a thorn in United's side all afternoon and Fulham's scorer, been informed that Willian had patently punched the ball from Jadon Sancho's shot, he might not have aggressively confronted the referee Chris Kavanagh. Mitrovic saw red figuratively and literally.

After a possible penalty was not reviewed last week, this week the Video Assistant Referee ruled in United's favour. Those sat by the press box with a view of the monitors immediately knew United would soon