Wrexham’s cinderella run comes to an end with loss to Sheffield at FA Cup

For Wrexham’s Hollywood house owners, the sequel proved to be a heart-breaker.

The Welsh soccer membership owned by celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney misplaced its FA Cup replay with Sheffield United 3-1 on Tuesday, conceding two targets deep into stoppage time.

A win for Wrexham, the lowest-ranked crew remaining within the well-known outdated competitors, would have arrange a match within the fifth spherical — or the final 16 — with Tottenham and star striker Harry Kane.

Instead, it was despair for the crew from the fifth tier of English soccer which has hit the headlines over the past two years after it was purchased by Reynolds and McElhenney for US$2.5 million in November 2020 on the advice of one among their writers.

Sheffield United compelled a replay by scoring an equalizer within the fifth minute of stoppage time within the first sport between the groups, which ended 3-3 at Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground. Reynolds attended that sport however wasn’t on the replay at Bramall Lane.

“So proud of these boys,” Reynolds posted to his 21.1 million followers on Twitter. “And the 4000 plus away supporters who gave it all.”

For a minute, it appeared just like the dream would keep alive, when Paul Mullin earned a penalty within the 72nd minute — his second of the sport. But Mullin’s shot was saved by Welshman Adam Davies and the rating remained degree at 1-1.

Billy Sharpe scored the winner 4 minutes into added time, earlier than Sander Berge added a 3rd simply earlier than the whistle.

Sheffield have been the higher crew, dominating in each possession (65%) and pictures (32, with 9 heading in the right direction, vs. 9, with three heading in the right direction).

That dominance had allowed Anel Ahmedhodzic to interrupt by with the opening objective within the fiftieth minute. Mullin then levelled issues when he transformed his first penalty within the 59th minute.