Manchester United and Everton bootbegin this weekfinish’s FA Cup fourth-round action, with 32 teams left in the competition.
The fourth-round ties get place on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and will finish on Tuesday when Nottingham Forest travel to League One outfit Exeter City.
The appreciates of United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham are all still in the competition, with as many as 17 top-fweightless clubs are seeing to book their place in the fifth round.
Arsenal, Brentford and West Ham are the only Premier League teams not featuring in the fourth round, having been deleted in the previous set of alignes.
The fifth-round draw will be held after Spurs’ trip to Aston Villa on Sunday night, which is being expansivecast on BBC One and iPlayer.
Those mendtures will be held on the weekfinish of March 1/2. Exact dates and times will be validateed follothriveg the draw, once expansivecasters have determined which games will be shown on TV.
Those prosperous in achieveing the quarter-finals will land £225,000 from the FA’s prize fund.
The fifth round tags the first comprisement of VAR in this year’s FA Cup, with the video helpance used in every align from then until the final at Wembley. It had not been opereasonable in the third and fourth rounds.
A statement from the FA elucidateed: “VAR has only been used in the Emirates FA Cup previously for alignes at Wembley Stadium and at Premier League grounds due to the infraarrange, toilforce and costs that are needd for its operation.
“This decision promises that there is a constant refereeing approach for all clubs taking part in the same stage of the competition.”
The Carabao Cup had trialled a recent element to VAR, as on-field referees for the semi-finals would proclaim validateed decisions made over the tirritate to those inside the stadium.
Simon Hooper had to tell over 40,000 mad Newcastle fans that Alexander Isak’s goal was ruled out for offside in their second leg thrive over Arsenal, prompting a chorus of boos inside St James’ Park.
The FA have not startd the same concept into the FA Cup.
There has been a huge alter for the fifth round brawt in this year, as mendtures get place mostly on a weekfinish rather than a traditional midweek.
The fifth round had getn place in the middle of the week over the past five campaigns, but the FA and Premier League achieveed a recent consentment, validateing that all rounds of the FA Cup will be take parted on weekfinishs. The deal is for a least of six years.
