Luke Edwards
Daily Telegraph writer on the Football Daily podcast

It's the most humiliating victory I've seen for a long time. Yes, they're [Manchester United] in another final - great. But that's where the positivity ends.

They were outplayed in the second half and they were outplayed in extra time.

There's no way United can come out of that and say it is a good day for them. The only good thing about it was the result. Everything else exposed how soft they are, the lack of leadership and the lack of character.

They took their foot off the gas and took Coventry too lightly - and nearly paid the ultimate price.

They were on the ropes and a toenail VAR decision has spared them. They were 20 seconds from going out.

Luke Edwards
Daily Telegraph writer on the Football Daily podcast

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Manchester United should be ashamed. They should be embarrassed.

Having said that, they can be proud of the result and of the fact they are in another cup final.

They were schooled by a Championship side in that second half and it exposed all the things we have been worried about with them as a team and Erik ten Hag as a manager. He looks like a manager crestfallen, crushed and somebody who knew the writing was on the wall for them.

I don't think Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos are thinking he's the right manager for them.

They have huge problems but they're in the cup final and could end the season with a trophy. That makes no sense to me - but that's football.

In case you are not familiar with Edvard Munch's work, here is a picture of his famous painting, The Scream, from 1893.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Telegraph features an image of Manchester United's co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe doing a pretty good impersonation of Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" as he watches them scrape a victory over Coventry in the FA Cup semi-final.

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The Mirror features a banner headline simply saying: "The FA Cup is still...magic."

Sunday's semi-final certainly produced the agony and the ecstasy we have all come to associate with the famous competition over the years.

Away from the FA Cup, the Mirror back page also has a rallying cry from Liverpool's fit-again full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, who says the club needs "five big ones" as they look to win a second Premier League title for departing manager Jurgen Klopp.

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The Times

The Times features a picture of the lines drawn by VAR yesterday which led to a last-gasp extra-time goal by Coventry's Victor Torp being ruled out.

Tough to look at for every Cov fan, I imagine.

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport

Can you imagine what would be being said about Manchester United and Erik ten Hag if they had lost to Coventry yesterday after being 3-0 up with 20 minutes to go at Wembley yesterday?

Ten Hag said in the build up to the FA Cup semi-final that he didn't care what is said about him externally.

But there were so many senior United figures in the Royal Box and they must have been sharing the same sense of incredulity many of the club's fans were feeling at what was unfolding.

This follows matches in the Champions League against Copenhagen and Galatasaray where United had established winning positions and failed to execute, and more recently in the Premier League against Brentford, Chelsea and Liverpool.

The pattern has been repeated too often - and Ten Hag knows it.

"We can play on very high levels but go to very low levels in the same game, that’s not explainable," said Ten Hag.

"We need to manage the game, take responsibility and make right decisions.

"I have to teach my players, it's clear. We have to do better on such occasions.

"The most difficult thing is put yourself in a winning position but on several occasions we let each other down.

"Today we got away with it."

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The Guardian

The Guardian focuses on Erik ten Hag's reaction to Manchester United's FA Cup semi-final victory over Coventry, with the Old Trafford boss saying: "We got away with it."

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And here is the bottom half.

Burnley couldn't pull off a great escape could they?

They have some tough games coming up, but if the Clarets are within touching distance of safety come the final day, their season finale at home to Nottingham Forest could be very interesting...

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Here is how the top half of the Premier League looks after the weekend's results...

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Metro

We will have plenty more on Nottingham Forest's reaction to Sunday's events at Goodison Park throughout the morning, I am sure.

Right...back to the papers.

The Metro leads on Manchester United surviving one of the most "astonishing FA Cup semi-final comebacks" against Coventry, and also has a story on Liverpool's "Ful recovery" at Craven Cottage after Jurgen Klopp's side won 3-1 to draw level on points with Premier League leaders Arsenal.

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Mark Clattenburg, the retired referee who is Nottingham Forest's referee analyst, defended the club's response in a column published on the Daily Mail's website on Sunday.

He wrote: "One of these errors would have been bad enough. Three was a joke, and that is why Nottingham Forest were left feeling victimised after another defeat in which zero big decisions went their way.

"In a season where they have had to endure some egregious refereeing, this trip to Everton was as grim a game as they have encountered since returning to the Premier League.

"These situations were precisely why video technology was brought into the Premier League and yet, Attwell did not send Taylor to his monitor. Not once. It was a hat-trick of howlers from the refereeing team and, unfortunately for Forest, a continuation of an unjust trend that has hampered their survival fight.

"You will have seen the statement released by the club - how the PGMOL were contacted to warn that it was not appropriate for a Luton fan such as Attwell to play such a pivotal role in a massive match that would impact the relegation race."

All three Nottingham Forest penalty claims centred on incidents involving Everton's veteran ex-England defender Ashley Young.

Forest felt he caught the back of Gio Reyna's boot in attempting to make a tackle when Sunday's game at Goodison Park was goalless.

Then, late in the first half, after Everton had taken the lead, a Callum Hudson-Odoi cross struck Young on the arm.

The third incident happened after the interval, with the Toffees still 1-0 ahead, as Young tangled with Hudson-Odoi in the area but the officials ruled he had won the ball cleanly.

Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo said that he "shares the feeling of the club" after being questioned about the post on X criticising decisions made by officials, following Sunday's defeat at Goodison Park.

He added: "It is has been a while that we have had poor decisions going against us. It is not an excuse but we are not happy with the work of the referees."

Here is the full post from Nottingham Forest on X following Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Everton:

"Three extremely poor decisions - three penalties not given - which we simply cannot accept. We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is a Luton fan before the game but they didn’t change him. Our patience has been tested multiple times. NFFC will now consider its options."

Read more on the story here, and the full report from Sunday's match here.

Also, click on the video below to watch analysis of those penalty decisions...