At least that saves Frank Lampard a bill on two big bar – but after the last winner of Sunderland, the boss of Coventry would have needed a drink.
Six years ago, after having guided Derby towards a global victory of 4-3 against Leeds at this stage, that he put his credit card behind the bar during an impromptu advertising stop. His team then lost in the final against Aston Villa.
This time there will be no final. This will be challenged by Sunderland and Sheffield United after Dan Ballard led a goal from the 123rd minute who almost sent the light roof stadium to the North Sea.
Lité Roma Enzo The Fee had not appreciated his best night and was still on the ground only to undergo a penalty. In the end, everything he needed was a corner. Dipping and inviting, he was suspended in the air like a question, and Ballard had the answer, meeting the delivery six meters and looking at the ball bounce via the underside of the transverse bar.
The defender did not see much after that. As he had fought his jersey soaked on his head, he was buried under a pile of teammates. It was a wonder that they had the energy to get up, that was the Slog to reach this point.
In the stands, parents and children were separated while the bodies exchanged rows, but they would not have cared. The light stadium was not so lit as the ignition. Ballard’s intervention was not only a goal, it was an explosion, the little two hours of fear and doubt.
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Superland supporters will not complain about the discomfort of their bumpy passage to Wembley now. We have seen more black cats on Netflix than Match of the Day in recent years. And the reruns of Sunderland until I die certainly made a better vision than the majority of this game.
It was only by the objective stolen in the 76th minute of Ephron Mason-Clark, from the center of Milan Van Ewijk, that we had a certain composure in front of the posts. Before that, they had slipped loud and wide. Sunderland had brought their advertising tables closer to the field closer to reduce the Van Ewijk Van Ewijk range. He could have had his hands attached, but his feet were free to make their worst and his delivery was the best of the evening. At least, that is to say until the last flag of the FEE.
The stage of light has always done well the big nights. There was simply not enough recently. Since the relegation of the Premier League in 2017, it was undoubtedly the biggest. Their only other semi-final semi-final semi-final was a defeat outside Luton two years ago.
This time, 46,000 had a scene to influence and intimidate, and very few stadiums make tribes like this. The flame throwers on the edge of the pitch probably cooled those in the stands in the seconds before kick-off, such was the fury with which they welcomed theirs and burned the opposition.
“ Wise Men Say ‘was the song that sent them to the fight, and the wise of these regions said that this tie was far from over, despite the advantage of the first leg of Sunderland. They saw how these documentaries can take place.
What was certainly imprudent was Wilson Isidor’s decision to dive by trying to clearly burst on the edge of Coventry’s penalty surface at the start of the game. Too early to wear a yellow card in the heat of this occasion. And the opportunity, it seems, had an impact on quality in the field. In truth, there was no quality. A pilot episode for the Premier League was not the case.
Mason-Clark showed a small adventure when he danced in the field of the left, but it led a blind driveway and his possible shot was nothing more than training for Anthony Patterson. At the other end, Eliezer Mayenda made a template of his own Blue Sky jerseys, but, likewise, it only led a dark place.
Indeed, there was little lighting in a first half hour of heavy keys and light heads. Then Coventry found a rhythm. They finished the first half stronger and should have led when the first Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, then Jack Rudoni, pushed above the bar of the zone of six yards. Two good chances, two bad finishes.
The defeat was heartbreaking for the boss of Coventry, Frank Lampard
The Volleté objective of the 76th minute of Ephron Mason-Clark placed the level of Coventry in aggregate
It seemed that the tie would be decided by penalties before Ballard’s late intervention
For Sunderland, there was no control or conviction to everything they have done. They looked like a team that had lost its last five games in the regular season. The fee was too peripheral. Isolated on the left, he had a seat at the edge of the ring but looked at the others throwing the punches. Not just landed. Half-time, the teams had exchanged a target shot.
From the noisy to nervous, the atmosphere changed entering the second half. Forty-five minutes to wait for the bell is hardly an attractive perspective.
Tardively, after the hour, they dragged the ropes and embarrassed. The rear of the rear Trai Hume sent a spectacular volleyball volley and Ben Wilson somehow introduced the ball as smuggling around the post. It was an astonishing effort barely in accordance with what had happened before.
Jude Bellingham had made his best impression of his brother for too much half-time, the version that has ghostly through too many Real Madrid games recently. Then, when his team needed him, the young brother intensified. He literally intensified by jumping on his feet after a scrum as a goal and going to the forehead with the goalkeeper Wilson.
The atmosphere needed this, endearing these flames at home in danger of entering. The confrontation brought a break in approval of the red and white masses. Just like each authorization of Ballard and Luke O’nien. Each time, it was like a kick closer to Wembley.
But then the kick in the crotch. With 14 minutes on the left, Coventry on the right back, Van Ewijk raised a crossing of the right and Mason-Clark stolen to amortize the ball in the lower corner. Lampard celebrated as if his team had won, but it was not compared to the celebrations that would come to death.
