Marcus Rashford has been officially awarded Manchester United's second goal in the Carabao Cup final - after it was initially marked down as a Sven Botman own goal.
The Red Devils stormed to their first silverware since 2017 with a 2-0 win over Newcastle United after a quick-fire first-half double saw them seize control of the game. Casemiro headed in an opener before Rashford was set free in the 39th minute and saw an effort deflect off Sven Botman and into the net.
Rashford wheeled away in celebration and was quickly joined by his United teammates, although it was announced on Sky Sports coverage at half-time that the goal had been awarded as a Botman own goal by the EFL. However, long after the game had finished, Manchester United were informed Rashford had eventually been awarded the goal.
It marked the 25th goal of a prolific campaign for Rashford in all competitions and a first goal in a major final as United celebrated their first trophy under new manager Erik ten Hag. After the U-turn on his goal, Rashford wrote on social media: A moment you dream of all your life! Scoring for the club, you support in a cup final. That one is for the fans."
During his post-match interview, Roy Keane put to Rashford that the goal had been awarded as an own goal, to which the in-form forward responded that he would still claim it. And even at the stage when he had not been given the goal, it put little dampener on the celebrations.
"It's a mixture of all emotions but it's massive for us to be involved in these types of games and something we've missed as a club,” said Rashford. “Hopefully it pushes us to keep going. The hunger is to have more moments like this.
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“I've been in finals we've won and lost and when you win it's massive for the club and as individuals and part of our and the club's history and we want to keep adding to it.
“We want to be involved in a lot of games and that means staying in all of the competitions we're in. I'm happy and buzzing with the result. The boys and staff have all put a lot of work in to get here.
"The manager wants us to play attacking football and with that comes mixing positions. It's something we've worked on but comes naturally as well to a lot of our forward players.”
Despite questions over who was responsible for scoring the goal, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher were both in agreement that Newcastle goalkeeper Loris Karius could've done better.
The former Man Utd star said: "There is a deflection, it wasn't the greatest strike from Marcus Rashford, but the goalkeeper is going down very early, maybe for the first shot, and then his hand... he just can't get enough on it and it goes over his head.
He then asked colleague Carragher: "There was a lot of focus on Karius coming into the game, do you think he should have saved it?"
The former Liverpool defender replied: "Yeah he should have saved it, of course he should. It's easy to look back, and certainly with the presence and size and stature of Nick Pope, you think he'd have dealt with that comfortably.
"I think the biggest worry with Karius or any Newcastle fan with the goalkeeper was his lack of football, not what happened in a certain game four or five years ago. He'll lack sharpness and confidence no doubt."
