The Manchester City captain attempted to volley Kevin De Bruyne's free kick from the edge of the Manchester United penalty area toward goal but failed to make a clean left-footed connection.
However, Gundogan's strike, which bounced twice before landing in the bottom corner, managed to beat United goalkeeper De Gea low to his right.
Although the United defenders running out may have missed the Spaniard, he was nonetheless criticized for taking too long to respond.
It happened as negotiations over a new Old Trafford contract were underway and Erik ten Hag was eager to sign another goalkeeper to challenge De Gea for the starting job at United next season.
According to a tweet by John Harrison, the head of data science at Goalkeeper.com, saves by Premier League goalkeepers on shots like Gundogan's were made 81% of the time.
In other words, only one out of every five of these attempts results in a goal, as Gundogan's did on Saturday.
Should De Gea have stopped the winning goal in the FA Cup final, Harrison asked?
It's difficult to discern by eye because the shot came between bodies and bounced awkwardly despite being at range and going slowly.
Goalkeeper.com uses these and other variables to determine that PL GKs save this shot 81% of the time.
Although De Gea, 32, earned the Premier League Golden Glove award for his performance against
He said that De Gea's chances of save both goals, in which the ball squirmed past him, were 96% and 98%, respectively.
Given that it only succeeds approximately 1 in 5 times, he continued, "Therefore, the FA Cup final winner was hardly a "howler" but it is still a shot a GK with De Gea's shot stopping ability would want to make!"
After just 12 seconds of Saturday's final at Wembley, Gundogan scored his first goal with a magnificent volley that De Gea was helpless to save.
After Jack Grealish was controversially ruled by VAR to have handled Aaron Wan-Bissaka's header, United scored an equalizer through a Bruno Fernandes penalty.
But Gundogan's second goal was the game-changer, as City won the FA Cup in addition to the Premier League.
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