Manchester United suffered an embarrassing early exit from the FA Cup on Friday night against Championship side Middlesbrough.

Anthony Elanga’s miss saw Boro celebrate a famous penalty kicks shootout victory at Old Trafford.

The competition’s fourth round got off to a stunning start as the Premier League giants arguably saw their last realistic hope of silverware this season extinguished by Chris Wilder’s Championship outfit.

Jadon Sancho opened the scoring for Ralf Rangnick’s star-studded side, but lifelong Manchester United fan Matt Crooks levelled and the match finished 1-1 after extra-time.

Every penalty kick found the net until Elanga struck his into the Stretford End, wrapping up an 8-7 penalty kick success for Boro and sending the 9,500 visiting fans wild.

Few could have seen the match going the distance given the way Manchester United started.

Sancho hit the crossbar inside 80 seconds of a one-sided first half in which he would fire the hosts ahead via a slight Isaiah Jones defection.

That was shortly after Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty kick miss.

Boro had looked limited but the hosts’ profligacy hurt them and Duncan Watmore crossed for fellow former Manchester United youth player Crooks to score in front of the raucous travelling Teessiders.

Most of those inside the stadium expected the goal to be ruled out for Watmore’s handball in the build-up, but it was apparently deemed accidental by both referee and VAR.

Fernandes inexplicably managed to hit a post with the goal at his mercy and the match went to extra-time and then penalty kicks, with Elanga’s missed kick the difference.