LONDON -- Manchester United do not tend to play their first-choice goalkeeper in the FA Cup. After David De Gea's performance against Chelsea at Wembley, the jury is now out on whether they did so in this FA Cup semifinal.
De Gea made his first appearance in the competition since the 2018 final, a 1-0 defeat to Chelsea in which Eden Hazard scored the only goal of a drab game. This latest meeting of two clubs with a combined 20 FA Cups followed a similarly meandering pattern until a prolonged first-half stoppage-time period following a head injury sustained by United's Eric Bailly.