Andre Onana will not miss Manchester United’s FA Cup showdown with Manchester City because bans for accumulated yellow cards end at the quarter-final stage.

The United goalkeeper received a yellow card for time-wasting in regulation time against Coventry on Sunday as well as during the penalty shoot-out.

Typically, two yellow cards equals a red and a player is sent off, but bookings from regulation time do not carry over into the shoot-out, meaning Onana was spared a nightmare.

It also means he will play in the final because the only way to receive a ban for that is via a red card, not accumulated yellows.

However, Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez will miss Villa’s Europa Conference League semi-final first leg for the same situation.

Martinez had been booked for time-wasting during the first half but bookings in general play do not then carry over to the shoot-out, where he was also yellow-carded, meaning he was allowed to carry on and make the decisive save from Benjamin Andre.

Villa always believed Martinez would be banned but UEFA themselves were less clear.

The governing body’s rule states that yellow cards collecting during the competition are removed from a player’s record after the quarter-finals.

Yet even though Martinez was not sent off in the shoot-out, he was still booked twice on the night.

After hours of deliberation, UEFA have Martinez is suspended after collecting three bookings across the entire tie against Lille.