WEMBLEY, England (AP)

Tim Howard stopped two penalty kicks yesterday to give Everton a 4-2 shoot-out victory over Manchester United and a first FA Cup final appearance in 14 years.

The teams had drawn 0-0 through extra time of the semi-finals at Wembley before the American goalkeeper blocked shots from Dimitar Berbatov and Rio Ferdinand to help put Everton into next month's final against Chelsea.

Winning kick

Defender Phil Jagielka then scored the winning kick, with only Tim Cahill missing for Everton.

A United team mostly composed of reserve players had been marginally the better side through regular time but needed goalkeeper Ben Foster to stop an extra-time shot to the far post by Cahill, who was then unlucky to be denied a run on goal with 10 minutes left when the referee ruled he had won the ball with a foul.

Backfired

United had chances through Carlos Tevez, Anderson and Darron Gibson in the first 90 minutes, but manager Alex Ferguson's gamble on playing a reserve team seemingly backfired as Danny Welbeck, Frederico Macheda and Gibson struggled to force clear openings against an organised Everton team.

"It was a tough game for us," Moyes said. "If they put out their Under-14s it would have a been a tough game. They are going after every trophy."

Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic were the only first-team regulars in United's starting line-up, with four players not beginning a Premier League match this season and another trio totalling just 19 starts between them.

And Everton's greater experience was further illustrated by the fact that it had more players on its lineup to have won the FA Cup, although both its former winners, Howard and Phil Neville, lifted the trophy while with United.

Bit of a lottery

"It's a bit of a lottery," Ferguson said. "But it's the only way you can decide a game in that situation. We've won games like that, so we can't complain."

United's hopes of finishing the season with an unprecedented five trophies are now over, but Everton is now hoping for a first title since the 1995 FA Cup when it beat United 1-0 in the final.