Manchester United bakal berjuang untuk mendapatkan gelar musim ini. (Foto: Reuters/Jason Cairnduff) Manchester United bakal berjuang untuk mendapatkan gelar musim ini. (Foto: Reuters/Jason Cairnduff)
Skuat Tottenham Hotspur sudah terbiasa bermain di Wembley. (Foto: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls) Skuat Tottenham Hotspur sudah terbiasa bermain di Wembley. (Foto: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)
Fokus Manchester United diganggu oleh adanya rumor perpecahan antara Jose Mourinho dengan Paul Pogba. (Foto: Reuters/Jason Cairnduff) Fokus Manchester United diganggu oleh adanya rumor perpecahan antara Jose Mourinho dengan Paul Pogba. (Foto: Reuters/Jason Cairnduff)
Tottenham Hotspur butuh gelar sebagai bukti kehebatan skuat mereka saat ini. (Foto: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls) Tottenham Hotspur butuh gelar sebagai bukti kehebatan skuat mereka saat ini. (Foto: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia -- Manchester United akan menghadapi Tottenham Hotspur pada semifinal Piala FA di Stadion Wembley, Sabtu (21/4). Berikut prediksi CNNIndonesia.com.Piala FA adalah kesempatan terakhir bagi Manchester United dan Tottenham Hotspur agar musim ini bisa berakhir dengan trofi di tangan mereka. Di atas kertas, kekuatan kedua tim terbilang seimbang.Dalam enam pertemuan terakhir di semua kompetisi, Manchester United dan Tottenham Hotspur sama-sama mengantongi tiga kemenangan. Berikut prediksi dari CNNIndonesia.com tentang duel Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur:Sama-sama butuh gelar untuk mengakhiri musim, Manchester United dan Tottenham Hotspur dijamin akan mati-matian berebut tiket ke final Piala FA. Man United dan Tottenham juga setara dalam urusan konsistensi permainan. Yang sedikit membedakan adalah Jose Mourinho dapat memainkan skuat terbaik.Pertahanan adalah awal dari penyerangan, dan pertahanan akan menjadi penentu pemenang di laga ini. MU beruntung memiliki David de Gea, tapi kombinasi bek tengah juga akan menentukan tingkat kerja keras kiper Spanyol untuk menghalau serangan Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen, dan Erik Lamela atau Son Heung-Min.Duel antara Nemanja Matic, Paul Pogba, dan Ander Herrera melawan Moussa Dembele atau Moussa Sissoko dan Eric Dier juga menjadi kunci.Saya, Nova Arifianto dari CNNIndonesia.com memprediksi Tottenham Hotspur menang tipis di laga ini. Skor akhir 2-1.Kegagalan Manchester United di Liga Champions dan trofi Liga Primer Inggris yang sudah dipastikan milik tim tetangga, Manchester City, membuat Setan Merah berambisi meraih satu gelar musim ini. Satu-satunya gelar tersebut adalah Piala FA.Skuat arahan Jose Mourinho pun bakal tampil habis-habisan menghadapi Tottenham Hotspur di laga semifinal Piala FA. Paul Pogba yang selama ini dikritik karena tampil kurang konsisten, bertekad menunjukkan performa terbaik di lini tengah dengan tembakan-tembakan dan asssistnya yang ciamik.Man United juga tidak akan membiarkan permainan agresif Tortenham membombardir pertahanan mereka. Salah satunya dengan merebut pertempuran di lapangan tengah. Setan Merah saya prediksi menang 2-1 untuk lolos ke final.Meski berstatus sebagai tuan rumah, namun Manchester United akan terasa sebagai tim tamu saat menghadapi Tottenham Hotspur di semifinal Piala FA yang akan digelar di Wembley.Pasalnya, musim ini Wembley jadi kandang sementara Spurs lantaran Stadion White Hart Lane direnovasi. Harry Kane dkk lebih paham seluk-beluk stadion kebanggan Inggris tersebut dibandingkan Man Utd.Kemenangan The Lilywhites atas MU pada pertemuan pertama Liga Primer Inggris yang dimainkan di Wembley jadi modal bagus. Dengan motivasi berlimpah, Tottenham kemungkinan bisa memenangkan laga dengan skor 3-1.Menjadi satu-satunya peluang merebut gelar musim ini membuat pertandingan Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur akan berlangsung menarik. Duel lini tengah akan menjadi penentu kemenangan di semifinal kali ini.Tottenham pantas diunggulkan pada pertandingan ini. Selain bermain di Stadion Wembley, Tottenham juga punya kondisi tim yang lebih baik. Setidaknya Tottenham tidak diganggu konflik internal seperti Manchester United yang sedang diganggu hubungan buruk antara Jose Mourinho dan Paul Pogba.Satu-satunya handicap Tottenham adalah, mereka tidak memiliki tim dan pelatih yang berpengalaman tampil di laga besar. Tottenham harus menekan sejak awal laga dan bermain disiplin jika ingin mengalahkan Manchester United. Skor 2-1 untuk Tottenham saya prediksi akan terjadi.Manchester United akan menghadapi ujian berat saat bertemu Tottenham Hotspur di semifinal Piala FA. Pasalnya, Man United akan menghadapi dua 'musuh' sekaligus dalam pertandingan nanti. Setan Merah tidak saja melawan Tottenham sebagai tim, melainkan juga melawan konflik internal di dalam tim.Jelang laga ini, ruang ganti Manchester United memanas. Gelandang Paul Pogba bahkan mengabaikan manajer Jose Mourinho saat lawan Bournemouth. Jika tidak segera diatasi, persoalan internal ini bisa memengaruhi permainan Man United lawan Tottenham. Bukan tidak mungkin target menjadi juara Piala FA hanya sekadar mimpi bagi The Red Devils.Meski demikian, saya yakin Man United bisa memberikan perlawanan kepada Tottenham, sekalipun tanpa beberapa pemain bintangnya. Kendati terlihat bakal sulit, Man United akan mengalahkan Tottenham dengan skor 2-1 dan melangkah ke final Piala FA.Manchester United tampil inkonsisten pada musim ini namun mereka seringkali berhasil memenangkan laga-laga besar. Dalam dua bulan terakhir, Manchester United mampu menang atas Chelsea, Liverpool, dan Manchester City.Jose Mourinho juga sosok yang piawai membina tim menghadapi laga-laga genting. Meski bakal dapat gempuran kuat dari Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United akan keluar dari pertandingan dengan kemenangan 2-0.
Over recent weeks, Mauricio Pochettino has relentlessly played down the importance of the FA Cup to the overarching ambitions of his Tottenham Hotspur team, and as the last prospect of a trophy this season duly expired it seemed his players had taken him at his word.
This was the eighth consecutive FA Cup semi-final that Spurs have lost and while Pochettino can only take responsibility for the last two, there were echoes of the defeat to Chelsea last year when they took the lead before being reeled in by an opponent who knows how to win big games. Jose Mourinho’s side are far from the force their manager sometimes prefers to imagine them, yet there is a tenacity about his team that reflects his own cussedness when it comes to the trophies.
Having transformed Spurs into regular Champions League contenders, and with fourth place this season well within his grasp, Pochettino’s achievements are considerable but they will not be measured in silver until next year at the earliest. After the game he was relentlessly optimistic, claiming that he needed more time, and then hinting that the minimal net spend Spurs have invested in their squad will always make it difficult to compete with the big guns.
“The most difficult thing in football is to be realistic because no-one wants to be realistic,” Pochettino lamented, and he is right of course but while Mourinho has spent much more money on his side it is not as if United are unbeatable. They have struck some indifferent form of their own in recent weeks, a team that can change its character from one game to the next, from one half to the next, and yet they always looked like they could control this game once they got ahead.
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Manchester United vs Tottenham | FA Cup | Wembley Stadium
Manchester United have reached the FA Cup Final to condemn Tottenham to an eighth straight semi-final defeat.
Spurs took the lead inside 11 minutes of the match after Dele Alli stroked home Christian Eriksen’s cross after a delightful through-ball from Davinson Sanchez.
But Mauricio Pochettino’s side were unable to capitalise on their early dominance, and United began to settle into the match.
Jose Mourinho’s side would draw themselves level inside 25 minutes as former Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez out-jumped Tottenham’s defence to head Paul Pogba’s cross past Michel Vorm.
The sides went in level at the break, but it would be United who would score the crucial second- with Ander Herrera’s low drive on 62 minutes.
Pochettino needed a response, but his Tottenham team failed to provide one. The belief they showed in the opening exchanges seem to dissipate as United asserted control over their opponents to secure their passage to the Final, where they await the winners of Chelsea and Southampton, who face-off at Wembley on Sunday.
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What makes a good season? Mourinho: "City untouchable but if we manage to finish second with 81 points I think that is a good season, then we come to the final." Happy One Jose Mourinho was pleased with his side's second half performance "In the second half [we had] good brain, very confident, very calm and in control." 'It is not enough' Pochettino on being competitive but not winning silverware: "It is not enough, we are close, nearly, close to touch but not enough." 'We need to improve' Dele Alli to BBC Sport: "Everyone talks. We want to win trophies, we have the staff that want to win. We can't keep doing this. We can't throw it away. We need to improve." FULL TIME FULL TIME | MANCHESTER UNITED 2 TOTTENHAM 1 That's it for Tottenham, who will have to face another year without silverware after goals from Sanchez and Herrera send United through. SUBS 90+5 mins: Final change for United as Fellaini replaces Sanchez. MATCH ACTION 90 mins: Five minutes added on here. YELLOW CARD 86 mins: He's only been on the pitch a few minutes but Rashford has been booked for diving. Meanwhile, Son is replaced by Lamela for Spurs. SUBS 82 mins: Second change for United as Lingard is replaced by Rashford. YELLOW CARD 82 mins: Dier now booked after a poor challenge on Lingard. SUBS 79 mins: Change for United as Darmian replaces Valencia. SUBS 77 mins: Second change for Spurs as Wanyama replaces Dembele, who has not been at his best today. TACTICS 71 mins: Spurs have, in fact, stuck with a back four - Vertonghen at left-back, Dier and Sanchez in the middle with Tripper on the right. Eriksen has dropped a little deeper behind a three of Alli, Son and Lucas. SUBS 68 mins: Spurs move to three at the back as Lucas replaces Davies. MATCH ACTION 62 mins: Pochettino sinks his head after Herrera fires a low effort through the legs of Davies. Lukaku's miss-control pays of as the square slides, via Lingard, straight into the path of the Spaniard. Can Spurs muster a reply? Photo: Reuters GOAL! Manchester United 2-1 Tottenham | Ander Herrera | 62' MATCH ACTION 60 mins: We're playing a waiting game now, either United or Spurs need to take the initiative and get on the front foot, could that come in the form of a change? The United fans think so, they're singing Martial's name. MATCH ACTION 56 mins: It appears to be a case of who makes the first move in this second half, there's been nothing too outgoing from either side as of yet. YELLOW CARD 50 mins: A nervy opening spell in the second half. One man who has had very little impact is Kane, kept very quiet by Jones and Smalling. Meanwhile, Alli is booked for a nasty challenge on Lingard. KICK OFF SECOND HALF We're up and running once more at Wembley! Next
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Teams and line-ups
Manchester United XI: De Gea; Valencia, Jones, Smalling, Yoing; Matic, Herrera, Pogba; Lingard, Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez
Substitutes: Pereira, Darmian, Lindelof, Fellaini, Mata, Martial, Rashford
Tottenham XI: Vorm, Trippier, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Davies, Dier, Dembele, Eriksen, Dele, Son, Kane.
Substitutes: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Wanyama, Sissoko, Lamela, Lucas
