it was ruled out. if you look at the top of your screen, you will see why. then it was time for watkins to be inches away again. the goal for villa would never come. we need to learn and close the gap from being a performance that was nearly good enough. we dominated for large parts, we created enough. but we have not been ruthless and executed the good chances that we created. as for united, far from gold standard, but at least still in the hunt for fa cup silverware. craig templeton, bbc news. now we know a number of stars from the premier league are off playing in the africa cup of nations — lots of names you've heard of, some you probably haven't such as the tiny comoros islands who've made their tournament debut against gabon in yaounde. the archipelago in the indian ocean is one of football's youngest nations — they onlyjoined fifa in 2005 — they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. sadly not the start they'd hoped for, as they lost 1—0 — aaron boupendza with gabon's goal, and a great celebration.