PUBLISHED: 08:31 30 June 2020 | UPDATE: 08:33 June 30, 2020
Todd Cantwell’s shocking strike against Manchester United was voted the goal of the English Cup quarter-finals Picture: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images
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Todd Cantwell’s shocking strike in the 2-1 England Cup defeat of Norwich City against Manchester United marked Raheem Sterling’s long-range effort for the goal of the round.
Cantwell leveled the Canaries level in the second half of Saturday’s draw when he launched a 25-yard low and tacky effort around Harry Maguire and Romero’s lower left corner.
Maguire was the winner of the United game deep in extra time, after Cantwell was forced to leave with a kidney muscle problem that leaves him in doubt about the Premier League’s midweek return to Arsenal.
Odion Igahlo had hooked the Reds ahead, but his strike scored only 14% of the votes on the BBC Sport website, with Cantwell (48%) defeating Sterling’s competition (38%) who scored in the win for Manchester City 2-0 in Newcastle.
Cantwell’s class finale was seen by a peak of 6.4 million viewers watching the game live on the BBC, the largest TV audience since the elite end of the English game, which resumed after a three-month hiatus. cause of the coronavirus pandemic. There have been another 1.7 million views on the BBC Iplayer service.
The audience figure was compared to a peak of 3.9 m for the Premier League match between Bournemouth and Crystal Palace broadcast by the BBC.
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