Marcus Rashford got off the mark for Aston Villa, netting twice as Unai Emery’s team made the FA Cup semi-finals with a 3-0 win at Preston.
This had been a fiddly fixture for Villa for 58 minutes with Preston defending doggedly and restricting the Premier League side but Rashford changed that by tapping home from Lucas Digne’s cross.
From that moment there was only going to be one winner as Villa put their foot down with Rashford, nonchalantly, scoring from the penalty spot after Morgan Rogers was fouled by Andrew Hughes.
Marcus Rashford gives Villa a second-half lead
Two became three when the Preston defence parted and Jacob Ramsey scampered through to finish past some poor goalkeeping from David Cornell.
Only five teams (Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs) have lifted the FA Cup more times than the seven times Villa have but they have not done so since 1957, when Eric Houghton was in charge. They are now just two games away from ending that barren run.
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