FA Cup finalists Man Utd want Wembley 'revenge'

Manchester United boss Marc Skinner says his side want "revenge" against Chelsea when the two sides meet in next month's FA Cup final.

United beat rivals Manchester City in Sunday's semi-final to secure a trip to Wembley for the third successive year.

While they go into the game as holders, United tasted defeat by Chelsea in their maiden FA Cup final appearance in 2023, before making a triumphant return to Wembley 11 months ago, beating Tottenham 4-0 to claim their first major piece of silverware.

"It's pretty good right?" Skinner said after Sunday's victory at Joie Stadium. "As managers we're not usually allowed to show emotion but I'm really happy with the players.

"There is a massive challenge ahead of us, we have played Chelsea in the final before and we want to get revenge."

Before the sides meet at Wembley on 18 May, they have a Women's Super League fixture to contend on 30 April.

Skinner's side retain an outside chance of catching runaway leaders Chelsea in the title race, who sit six points clear with four games to play.

'We can beat anyone'

United players react to the full time whistle as their 1-0 defeat to Chelsea in the 2023 FA Cup final is confirmed
Chelsea beat Manchester United 1-0 in the 2023 FA Cup final [Getty Images]

United will be aiming to use their varied FA Cup final experiences to go one better against Chelsea at Wembley.

"I'm not even bothered who the favourites are," said Skinner. "I thought we were excellent against Chelsea in the previous final so we have to come up big again.

"I'm just going to make sure my team is as prepared as they can be and they can show their experience. If they can do that we can beat anyone, I've no doubt about that."

Eleven of the players that were involved in the 2023 final loss to Chelsea remain part of the current squad.

Former United goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain says that the rematch will be a chance for them to "redeem themselves".

"They lost their first FA Cup final to Chelsea at Wembley, now they have the chance to redeem themselves and get one over on Chelsea and prevent that quadruple," she told BBC Sport.

Former Manchester City forward Ellen White added: "It's going to be really exciting.

"Chelsea want the quadruple, United want to retain the trophy. It's going to be really exciting especially for the neutral."

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