Marcus Rashford scored twice as Aston Villa beat Preston North End to progress into the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium, where they will play Crystal Palace
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Aston Villa's Marcus Rashford leaves the pitch after the Emirates FA Cup quarter final match at Deepdale
Marcus Rashford marked his first Aston Villa goals on social media after the FA Cup quarter-final win
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Aston Villa players aplenty showed their support for Marcus Rashford after the Manchester United loanee scored his first two goals since the switch.
Rashford scored twice against Preston North End and helped Villa progress to the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium, where they will play Crystal Palace.
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Starting as a central striker meant the England international was well-positioned to connect with a Lucas Digne cross and open the scoring just before the hour mark.
The striker then five minutes stepped up to convert a penalty that Morgan Rogers won.
Rashford later acknowledged getting off the mark on social media.
"I am buzzing to finally get my first Villa goals and help the team progress to the semi-finals," Rashford's Instagram caption reads, punctuating the sentence with a red heart emoji.
The player also made mention of the other significance that Sunday has.
He referenced Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
"Happy Mother's Day (rose emoji) & Eid Mubarak to everybody around the world celebrating (smiling face with open hands emoji) (raising hands emoji)," Rashford added.
Several of his Villa team-mates commented on the post, most with emojis.
Amadou Onana replied with two fire emojis, Digne going one better with three. Ian Maatsen also went for two like Onana but with a clapping hands emoji.
Marco Asensio started his comment like Maatsen with two fire emojis and a clapping hands one but added a pair of football emojis for Rashford's two goals.
Emi Martinez, meanwhile, opted for two smiling faces with heart-eyes emojis, and Matty Cash commented with the top arrow emoji.
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Rogers replied to the post "Yessirrr", punctuated by two fire emojis.
Youri Tielemans, similarly, congratulated Rashford, commenting: "Well done you (fire emoji) (raising hands emoji)".
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