Man Utd reach FA Glass quarter-finals, Burnley crash out
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer warned "wasteful" Manchester United to be "more clinical" once they edged in to the FA Cup quarter-finals with a hard-fought 1-0 win against West Ham about Tuesday.
Solskjaer's side were good below their finest in a scrappy fifth round tie in freezing, snow-dusted Good old Trafford.
But a fine surface finish from Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay ensured United advanced to the go on eight for a 7th successive season.
United previous won the FA Glass in 2016 and McTominay's third goal in three games maintained them in the hunt to lift up the trophy to get the 13th time.
Following the frustration of the later Everton equaliser that dented their Premier Group title challenge on Saturday, this is an essential lead to lift the mood at United.
It had been hardly an eye-catching overall performance however, with United labouring against defensive West Ham until McTominay and Bruno Fernandes were introduced as second one half substitutes.
"When it's simply 1-0 and we happen to be wasteful, anything can occur to us. We recognized that from the last game," Solskjaer informed BBC Sport.
"I think we got about 15 to 17 shots in the end but we must be considerably more clinical. We ought to have finished the overall game off earlier.
"We had a need to have an excellent result and an excellent feeling after today because we were low after Everton video game.
"We are in the hat and that's what we wanted. You want to concern and we want to go to the final. That's what we're here at Man United for."
Amad Diallo was named in the United bench for the first time since the 18-year-old's January move from Atalanta as Solskjaer manufactured six changes.
Lukasz Fabianski avoided United from acquiring the lead in the 27th minute when he brilliantly pushed Victor Lindelof's header onto the content.
There was a nasty clash of heads between West Ham's Issa Diop and United's Anthony Martial towards the finish of the initially half.
Both continued after treatment but Diop didn't return in the second half because of concussion.
"To clarify, Issa Diop was substituted while a concussion substitute, signifying we are able to now make a complete of six changes, as may Manchester United, if all of us see fit," West Ham explained in a statement.
Fabianski saved well from Marcus Rashford prior to the video game went into extra-time.
McTominay finally made the breakthrough in the 97th minute.
Martial's cross was only half-cleared and Rashford's deft feel teed up McTominay to steer a composed strike past Fabianski from just inside area.
- Cherries shock Burnley -
In Tuesday's other fifth spherical tie, Burnley suffered a surprise exit as second tier Bournemouth won 2-0 at Turf Moor.
Sean Dyche's area fell behind to Sam Surridge's first half objective and Junior Stanislas completed them away with a late penalty.
While the loss was embarrassing, it will be forgotten if Dyche assures Burnley preserve their Premier Group status.
Burnley are 17th found in the Premier League, sitting down eight points free from the relegation zone.
It could have already been a far more chastening nights for Burnley, who primarily included the ineligible Erik Pieters in the workforce before getting alerted to the problem by Bournemouth's media chief.
Dutch defender Pieters was banned after collecting bookings in the last two rounds of your competition.
Pieters was replaced right before kick-off by Anthony Driscoll-Glennon, keeping Burnley from a probable FA investigation.
"The guidelines have changed this season with the booking scenario and the number of games in the FA Glass. It was just a obvious oversight," Dyche said.
"To be fair to Bournemouth, they flagged it and mentioned it, so credit to them for a lttle bit of gentlemanly carry out. We jumped onto it straight aside and persons at our club held their hands up in the right slots."
