Manchester City will play either Stoke or Bolton in the final of the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 at Wembley.

Teams:

Man United starting XI- Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Park, Scholes, Carrick, Valencia, Berbatov and Nani.

Subs- Kuszczak, Owen, Fabio, Smalling, Anderson, Hernandez and Gibson.

Man City starting XI- Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, De Jong, Barry, A Johnson, Yaya Toure, Silva and Balotelli.

Subs- Taylor, Boyata, Vieira, Milner, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Dzeko and Jo.

The Game:

Man United started off the better side at Wembley, with Dimitar Berbatov having two fantastic chances in the opening few minutes. Ji-Sung Park put Berbatov through on goal but Joe Hart came out and blocked the Bulgarian's shot. Second later, Nani picked up the ball from a throw-in, he turned and his cross across goal was hit over the bar by Berbatov from two yards out.

United continued to attack City's goal, Michael Carrick had an effort from 20 yards out but it was charged down by the City defence.

Man United then had a couple of opportunities from corners. The first saw Berbatov loop his header from Antonio Valencia's corner over the bar and onto the netting. Then from another corner taken by Valencia, Vidic couldn't direct his header towards goal.

Man City didn't threaten the Man United goal until just after the half hour mark. Gareth Barry turned in Man United's penalty area, his shot hit the side netting.

Then a powerful long distance strike from Mario Balotelli had to be knocked over the bar from Edwin Van Der Sar. City came close to opening up the scoring minutes before half time but Vincent Kompany's curling shot went just wide of Van Der Sar's post.

Manchester City took the lead on the 52nd minute after a mistake from Carrick. The midfielder lost possession just outside the area, the ball was picked up by Yaya Toure, he ran past Vidic and hit the ball past Van Der Sar.

David Silva almost found Toure at the far post but Van Der Sar claimed the ball. That was followed by two shots by Balotteli, which were blocked by Ferdinand and Vidic.

Man United were awarded a free-kick after Pablo Zabaleta fouled Park. Before the free-kick was taken, Antonio Valencia was replaced by Javier Hernandez. Nani took the free-kick, which took a deflection and was pushed onto the bar by Hart.

Things went from bad to worse after Paul Scholes was shown a straight red card after a high challenge on Zabaleta. Sir Alex Ferguson's response to the red card was to bring on Anderson for Berbatov.

Man United had to play just less than 20 minutes with 10-men but they still had a few chances. Hernandez tried to equalise for United but his shot was saved by Hart. Evra had a good chance to put the ball into the area but instead he tried to hit the ball past Hart and the near post but his effort went wide.

Toure had a very good chance to score City's second just before full time. Toure burst into the United penalty area, the ball was finally cleared by a combination of Vidic and Van Der Sar.

City won the game 1-0 and will now play in the FA Cup final.

Manchester United and Manchester City will fight it out at Wembley tomorrow for a place in the final of the FA Cup.

Team News

Manchester United:

Wayne Rooney and Jonny Evans are both unavailable for Man United due to suspension. Darren Fletcher will also miss the game, he is back in training but not fully recovered from illness. Owen Hargreaves and Anders Lindegaard are both out injured.

Squad: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Rafael, O'Shea, Brown, Ferdinand, Smalling, Vidic, Evra, Fabio, Valencia, Gibson, Anderson, Scholes, Park, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Berbatov, Hernandez and Owen.

Manchester City:

Man City will have to make do without their captain, Carlos Tevez, who has been ruled out for up to a month with a hamstring injury. Micah Richards had also been suffering from a hamstring injury but he is fit for tomorrows game.

Squad: Hart, Taylor, Richards, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, Boyata, Wright-Phillips, De Jong, Y.Toure, Vieira, Barry, Silva, Milner, A.Johnson, Dzeko, Balotelli, Razak and McGivern.

Most Recent Meeting

The last derby match was played on the 12th February 2011, which Man United won 2-1 at Old Trafford. Luis Nani opened up the scoring in the 41st minute. David Silva equalised for Man City in the 65th minute but Rooney won the game for United scoring just 12 minutes before full time.

Head-To-Head

The two clubs have played each other 157 times. Man United have won 65 of the 157 games, they have lost 42 matches against City and there have been 50 draws.

Recent Form

Man United: WWWWW

12th April: Man United 2-1 Chelsea (Champions League)
9th April: Man United 2-0 Fulham (Premier League)
6th April: Chelsea 0-1 Man United (Champions League)
2nd April: West Ham 2-4 Man United (Premier League)
19th March: Man United 1-0 Bolton (Premier League)

Manchester City: LWLWW

11th April: Liverpool 3-0 Man City (Premier League)
3rd April: Man City 5-0 Sunderland (Premier League)
20th March: Chelsea 2-0 Man City (Premier League)
17th March: Man City 1-0 Dynamo Kiev (Europa Cup)
13th March: Man City 1-0 Reading (FA Cup)

Managers

Sir Alex Ferguson:

"It should be an exciting game. We go into it with great confidence, we're playing well and we're ready for it”
"City have a strong squad and they've got plenty of experience. You have to play well to win at Wembley."

Roberto Mancini:

"I have respect for Manchester United because they have won everything for many years”
"To begin with, they won a single trophy after a long time with nothing. Now we are in the same position.
"We can go on to do what United have done. We have a chance on Saturday and for this we should be happy."

Officials

Referee: Mike Dean
Assistant referees: Mike Mullarkey and Peter Kirkup
Fourth official: Chris Foy

Mike Dean has officiated 36 matches this season, showing 125 yellow cards and five red cards.

Dean has refereed three matches involving Man United this season. The first was United's 5-2 away win against Scunthorpe in the Carling Cup. He also refereed United's 2-2 away draw against Aston Villa and the 0-0 away draw against Tottenham.

Dean has also taken charge of three matches involving City; their 1-0 loss against Sunderland, their 2-1 loss to Wolves and their 2-2 draw against Leicester City in the FA Cup.

Manchester United will play either Premier League side Arsenal or League One side Leyton Orient at Old Trafford in the Quarter Finals of the FA cup.

Yesterday Man United beat Crawley Town 1-0 at Old Trafford to reach the Quarter Finals. Leyton Orient and Arsenal played each other this afternoon, which ended in a 1-1 draw. They will now face each other again in a replay at the Emirates.

Arsenal:

The most recent meeting between Man United and Arsenal was on the 13th December 2010 in the league at Old Trafford. Man United won the game 1-0 with Ji-Sung Park scoring the only goal.

There have been a total of 210 games played between the two clubs in all competitions. Out of those 210 games, there have been 87 Man United wins, 77 Arsenal wins and 46 draws. 13 of those games have been played in the FA Cup, Man United have won six times, Arsenal have won five times and there have been two draws.

The last FA Cup meeting between the two clubs was a Fifth Round tie on the 16th February 2008 at Old Trafford, which Man United won 4-0. Wayne Rooney, Darren Fletcher (x2) and Luis Nani all scored for United, Emmanuel Eboue was sent off in the 49th minute.


Leyton Orient:

The last time Man United played Leyton Orient was back on the 14th December 1974 in the old English Division two, the game ended in a 0-0 draw.

There have been a total of 12 games played between the two clubs in all competitions. Out of those 12 games, there have been 6 Man United wins, 2 Leyton Orient wins and 4 draws. The two clubs have never met each other in the FA Cup.

The Full Draw is:

Stoke City v West Ham/Burnley
Manchester City/Aston Villa v Everton/Reading
Birmingham City v Bolton Wanderers
Manchester United v Arsenal/Leyton Orient

With 93 league places between the two sides, on paper it should have been an easy win for Man United, but it was far from that. Crawley made sure that Manchester United had to fight for their place in the next round of the FA Cup.

The Manchester United starting line-up was: Anders Lindegaard, Rafael Da Silva, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Fabio Da Silva, Michael Carrick, Anderson, Darron Gibson, Bebe, Javier Hernandez and Gabriel Obertan.
Tomasz Kuszczak, Wayne Rooney, Chris Smalling, Darren Fletcher, Josh King, Paul Pogba and Ryan Tunnicliffe were all named on the bench.

The first proper opportunity of the game fell to Crawley with Ben Smith hitting a long range shot, which flew just wide of Lindegaard's post. Not much happend for the first 25 minutes, Crawley looked fairly comfortable and Man United weren't really testing keeper Michel Kuiper.

It was Brown who got the only goal of the game, which came 27 minutes in. From a short corner, Gibson's cross into the area from the left was flicked on and past Kuiper by Brown, for his first goal since October 2008.

Minutes after the goal, Gibson's wonderful pass found Fabio who only managed to poke the ball wide. Man United's next opportunity came from Obertan, who brought a good save out of Kuiper.

Rooney was brought immediately on for Anderson for the start of the second half. The striker made an early impact after setting Obertan clear but he was unable to find Hernandez who was waiting in the area.

It was Crawley who had most of the chances during the start of the second half with Ben Smith, Dannie Bulman and Craig McAllister all causing Man United problems.

For the rest of the game, the better of the chances fell to Crawley and the longer the game went on the more frustrated the Man United players got. An unmarked David Hunt volleyed the ball wide, Matthew Tubbs tried an overhead kick took a deflection and flew just over the bar.

The non league side were nearly on level terms with during injury time after substitute Richard Brodie header hit the bar and fortunately for United, it was cleared. Man United scraped through to the next round with a 1-0 win.

Tomorrow evening Man United have the chance to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, if they beat non-league side Crawley Town at Old Trafford.

The two clubs have never played each other in any competition, with 93 league places between the clubs Man United are understandably very strong favourites to go through to the next round.

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed that both Rafael Da Silva and Fabio Da Silva will play. Also expected to play are John O'Shea, Wes Brown, Anderson, Michael Carrick, Anders Lindegaard, Bebe and Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez.

Michael Owen has been ruled out of tomorrows game but should be fit enough for the UEFA Champions League game against Marseille on Wednesday. Also ruled out of the FA Cup tie are Ji-Sung Park, Rio Ferdinand and Jonny Evans.

Man United squad: Lindegaard, Kuszczak, O'Shea, Evans, Smalling, Fabio, Rafael, Brown, Vidic, Carrick, Anderson, Fletcher, Obertan, Scholes, Gibson, Hernandez, Berbatov and Rooney.

Crawley Town will be without midfielder Scott Neilson who is out with a foot injury. Defender Pablo Mills should return after being rested. Defender John Dempster and midfielder Josh Simpson are both cup-tied.

Lee Probert will officiate tomorrows game. Probert has refereed 23 games this season, showing 56 yellow cards and six red cards. He has refereed only one Man United game this season, which was the 7-1 thrashing of Blackburn Rovers in the league earlier this season.

Manchester United have been drawn at home to Crawley Town in the fifth round of the FA Cup. Man United have never played Crawley in any competition.

The non-league side beat Torquay United 1-0 away yesterday to get them through to the fifth round. To get to this stage, Torquay, Derby County, Swindon, Guiseley AFC and Newport County.
The Blue Square Premier currently side sit second in the table, two points behind AFC Wimbledon but have played 4 games less.

FA Cup 5th round draw:

West Ham v Burnley

Notts County or Manchester City v Aston Villa

Stoke City v Brighton & Hove Albion

Birmingham v Sheffield Wednesday

Leyton Orient v Arsenal

Everton or Chelsea v Reading

Manchester United v Crawley Town

Fulham or Tottenham v Bolton or Wigan

The FA Cup ties will be played on the 19th or 20th February.

Man United are through to the next round of the FA Cup after beating Southampton 2-1 at St Mary's. An understrength United side had to come from 1-0 down to beat the League One side.

Sir Alex Ferguson made many changes to the side who started against Blackpool with Anders Lindegaard, John O'Shea, Jonny Evans, Fabio Da Silva, Anderson, Gabriel Obertan, Michael Owen and Javier Hernandez all coming in.

Man United starting XI- Lindegaard, O'Shea, Smalling, Evans, Fabio, Anderson, Scholes, Gibson, Obertan, Owen and Hernandez.

The Saints got off to the better start with Rickie Lambert causing the Man Unite defence a few problems. Dan Harding thought he gave Southampton the lead after Richard Chaplow's deflected shot fell to him but after putting the ball past Lindegaard, the goal was correctly ruled out due to Chaplow being offside.

Owen had the best of United's first half chances, his first saw the ball fly just past the fast post, his second was a cross into the area ended with the ball hitting the post and bouncing away.

Southampton took the lead just before half time after some awful defending by Man United, which resulted in Chaplow smashing the ball past Lindegaard and into the roof of the net.

United made a substitution immediately after the first half with Wes Brown replacing Fabio. Man United did start the second half better than they finished the third but with 13 minutes of the second half gone and no signs of United equalising, Sir Alex Ferguson made a double substitution. Ryan Giggs and Luis Nani came on for Gibson and Anderson.

The substitutes made an immediate impact with Giggs' free-kick creating a chance for Evans, who's header was caught by Southampton keeper Bartosz Bialkowski. That was soon followed by a ball into the area by Nani, Owen came very close to scoring but his effort was wide of the post.

It was Owen who leveled up the scores. Obertan's cross in from the right took a deflection and Owen was there to head past Bialkowski. The equaliser didn't deter Southampton who almost took the lead after Owen's goal but Dan Harding lashed the ball inches wide.

With just under 15 minutes remaining, Hernandez scored what turned out to be the goal which would send United through to the next round. Ryan Dickson lost the ball to Owen, he passed the ball to Giggs, who put through Hernandez and the Mexican put the ball past the keeper.

Not the best of performances again but all that matters is that United are still in the FA Cup. The Saints shouldn't be too down hearted, they put in a great performance but United had too much in the end.

Tomorrow evening Manchester United take on Southampton in the fourth round of the FA Cup at St Mary's

Man United went through to the third round after beating Liverpool 1-0 at Old Trafford after a 2nd minute penalty from Ryan Giggs. League One side Southampton beat Premier League side Blackpool 2-0 at St Mary's in the previous round.

The last time the two sides met was in the third round of the FA Cup back 2009, which United won 3-0 with goals from Danny Welbeck, Luis Nani (penalty) and Darron Gibson. Before that United and Southampton faced each other three times in the 2004/05 season, twice in the league and once in the FA Cup. United won all three games.

Head-to-head the two clubs have played each other a total of 109 times in all competitions. Man United have won 56 times, Southampton 25 times and there have been 28 draws. 14 of the 109 games have been played in the FA Cup, United have won eight times, lost only once and there have been five draws.

Manchester United will be without Patrice Evra who is missing after a family bereavement. Edwin Van Der Sar will be rested, which means that Anders Lindegaard could make his debut. Rafael Da Silva suffered concussion during the 3-2 win over Blackpool so he won't play but Michael Carrick trained has trained so he could play.

Man United squad: Kuszczak, Lindegaard, O’Shea, Brown, Neville, Vidic, Smalling, Evans, Fabio, Nani, Obertan, Carrick, Fletcher, Scholes, Gibson, Anderson, Giggs, Bebe, Rooney, Berbatov, Hernandez and Owen.

Ahead of the game, Southampton will check the fitness of both Dean Hammond and Adam Lallana, who have both been struggling with injuries.

Referee tomorrow is Martin Atkinson. So far this season Atkinson has refereed 24 games in all competitions, showing 85 yellow cards and eight reds. Atkinson has officiated two games involving Man United; the 3-3 draw against Everton in the league and 2-0 win over Wigan in the league. Atkinson refereed Southampton's FA Cup game against Blackpool last month.

After beating Liverpool 1-0 at Old Trafford today, Manchester United will now play Southampton in the fourth round of the FA Cup at St Mary's on the weekend of 29/30th January.

The League One side yesterday beat an under strength Blackpool side 2-0 at St Mary's Stadium.

The last time the two sides met was in the third round of the FA Cup back 2009, which United won 3-0 with goals from Danny Welbeck, Luis Nani (penalty) and Darron Gibson. Before that United and Southampton faced each other three times in the 2004/05 season, twice in the league and once in the FA Cup. United won all three games.

Head-to-head the two clubs have played each other a total of 109 times in all competitions. Man United have won 56 times, Southampton 25 times and there have been 28 draws. 14 of the 109 games have been played in the FA Cup, United have won eight times, lost only once and there have been five draws.

Manchester United have progressed to the fourth round of the FA Cup after beating bitter rivals Liverpool 1-0 at Old Trafford.

Man United were without Edwin Van Der Sar, Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney. Tomasz Kuszczak started in goal, Jonny Evans replaced Vidic and Javier Hernandez lined up with Dimitar Berbatov up front for United.

Kenny Dalglish's first game back in charge of Liverpool didn't get off to the best of starts after Manchester United were awarded a penalty after just 35 seconds. Daniel Agger caught Dimitar Berbatov inside the area, Ryan Giggs calmly stepped up and hit the ball past Pepe Reina in the Liverpool goal.

Liverpool's task got even harder after Steven Gerrard was shown a straight red after a horrendous two-footed lunge on Michael Carrick just after the half hour mark.

Evans was close to giving United a 2-0 lead after heading the ball against the post just before half time.

The game improved during the second half with United coming close a few times but Liverpool did improve after the break.

Man United's first substitution was to bring Anderson on for Darren Fletcher. Anderson's first contribution to the game was to bring down Fernando Torres. The resulting free kick saw Fabio Aurelio draw a save out of Kuszczak and get the ball behind for a corner.

Minutes later it was Man United on the attack, Berbatov's strike at goal was saved by Reina which was followed by a moment of madness. A shot from Rafael Da Silva was saved by Reina, the ball fell to Berbatov, his shot was saved by Reina, Rafael then had another effort towards goal, saved by Reina, then Giggs tried to get the ball past the Liverpool keeper and this time it went for a corner. From the resulting corner taken by Giggs, Berbatov had a strike at goal but Reina saved again.

With just over 15 minutes remaining, Sir Alex Ferguson brought on former Liverpool striker Michael Owen on to replace Hernandez. Just after the United substitution, Dalglish brought Torres off, David Ngog replaced him. Ngog immediately tried to pull a goal back but his header fell wide of the goal.

Man United managed to hold on to the 1-0 lead and are now through to the next round. They now face an away trip to Southampton in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Tomorrow lunchtime Manchester United take on Liverpool at Old Trafford, in the only Premier League clash in the third round of the FA Cup.

The big news ahead of the game was the announcement today that Roy Hodgson has left Liverpool by mutual consent and club legend Kenny Dalglish will be in charge until the end of the season.

Liverpool have had a poor season, especially in the league where they currently sit in 12 place having played 20 games and picking up 25 points with a goal difference of -3. Comparing that to Manchester United who currently sit top of the table, who have played 20 times, picked up 44 points and have a goal difference of +24. In all competitions this season, Liverpool have lost to Manchester City, Man United, Northampton (on penalties), Blackpool, Everton, Stoke, Tottenham, Newcastle, Wolves and Blackburn. In comparison Man United have only lost once which was a 4-0 loss to West Ham in the Carling Cup.

Sir Alex Ferguson will give late fitness checks to Wayne Rooney who has been out with an ankle injury and Edwin Van Der Sar who has been suffering with the flu. United will definitely be without Paul Scholes, John O'Shea, Owen Hargreaves and Antonio Valencia. New signing Anders Lindegaard will be available after completing his move during the week.

For Liverpool, Paul Konchesky suffered a dead leg during Liverpool's loss to Blackburn Rovers but is expected to have recovered in time. Martin Skrtel may also return after suffering from a stomach strain. Liverpool will be without Jay Spearing and Jamie Carragher.

There have been a total 0f 180 games between the two clubs in all competitions. Manchester United have won 70 times, Liverpool have won 60 times and there have been 50 draws. Out of the 180 games the clubs have played each other 15 times in the FA Cup, United have won eight times, lost three times and there have been four draws.

Referee is Howard Webb. Webb has taken charge of 23 games in all competitions so far this season, he has shown 74 yellow cards and only one red. Webb officiated the match between Man United and Liverpool at Old Trafford in the Premier League back in September last year, which United won 3-2. The only other game involving United, which Webb has officiated this season was the 1-0 win over Arsenal in the league. Webb also took charge of Liverpool's 2-0 losses to both Everton and Chelsea in the league this season.

Manchester United have drawn Liverpool at home in the third round of the FA Cup.

Man United have already beaten Liverpool at Old Trafford this season, the game finished 3-2 to United thanks to a Dimitar Berbatov hattrick.

There has been a total of 180 games played between the two sides in all competitions. Man United have won 70 times, Liverpool have won 60 times and there has been 50 draws.

Out of the 180, United have played each other 15 times in the FA Cup. There are 8 wins to United’s name, Liverpool have won three times and there have been four draws.

Other notable ties see Leeds travel to the Emirates to play Arsenal, Chelsea play Ipswich at Stamford Bridge, FC United or Brighton will host Portsmouth and Man City are away to Leicester City.

The ties will be played on the 8th or 9th January 2011.

Yesterday Man United got 2010 off to an awful start with a 1-0 defeat to fierce rivals Leeds. Both sets of fans were really up for the game, unfortunate only one side turned up for the occasion and that wasn’t Man United.

It didn’t get off to a great start before the game had kicked off. Nemanja Vidic was in the starting XI but he was injured in the warm up. That meant that Wes Brown had to come in as a replacement.

Man United starting XI- Kuszczak, Neville, Evans, Brown, Fabio, Obertan, Gibson, Anderson, Welbeck, Rooney and Berbatov.

I honestly don’t know where to start Gary Neville had a forgettable game, Wes Brown was lucky to be on the pitch at fulltime, Danny Welbeck seemed to give the ball away at most opportunities. Darron Gibson had a fairly anonymous game, I forgot quite a few times who was pairing up with Anderson in the midfield.

Anderson didn’t have a bad game, he wasn’t fantastic and didn’t have his shooting boots on but he wasn’t one of the poorer players. Wayne Rooney was his normal self, running around the pitch trying to get hold of the ball. When it came to the final third of the pitch and him having to stick the ball into the back of the net, that’s where it all went wrong.

Jonny Evans was a surprise starter for me but it was great to see him back in central defence. Evans was another one of the very few who didn’t have a bad game. Brown was so lucky to be on the pitch, I don’t know how many chances he was given when he was already on a yellow card. Him and Tomasz Kuszczak should have done better with the goal but fair play to Jermaine Beckford, he did well.

Dimitar Berbatov, where do I start with him? He had one glorious opportunity in the first half, if only he had moved towards the goal and not just stand there. In one way, he is like Cristiano Ronaldo. Sometimes he is fantastic but at other times he is so frustrating.

When United had a corner, we just don’t look the same threat as we do when Rio Ferdinand and Vidic are in the team. I also don’t know why we continue to try and play the short corners, they don’t work.

On the hour mark, the cavalry was on. Ryan Giggs and Antonio Valencia were brought on for Obertan and Welbeck. Valencia ran at the defenders, got a few balls into the box but nothing really changed.

Michael Owen came on with around 20 minutes to go. His only real contribution to the game that I can remember was to miss a brilliant opportunity. The ball was played to him inside the penalty area and he just missed it. If he had got anything on that ball it would have gone past the keeper.

Don’t get me wrong, we were poor but we did get chances to score. I still don’t know how we didn’t score in the final few minutes. There were a couple of balls cleared off the line and goal mouth scrambles but it finished 1-0 to Leeds.

This result is unacceptable; it wasn’t as if it was a weak Man United side. This was a fairly strong (not the strongest) Premier League side wanting to retain the title, playing against a League 3 side. We were second to the ball most of the time, sloppy and just didn’t look up for it. That is what let the fans down.

It pains me to say it but Leeds did deserve it. They turned up and embarrassed us. Hopefully this result will give the players a very much needed kick up the backside for the next game against another one of our fierce rivals- Manchester City.

Tomorrow lunch time Leeds travel to Man United for the first time since February 2004, when both teams played a 1-1 draw. Since 2004 it has been downhill for Leeds but supporters of both teams are looking forward to the clash.

Man United welcome back Paul Scholes and Gary Neville who both return from injuries. Nemanja Vidic and Wes Brown are expected to start, other than that, I don’t have a clue who will be in the starting line-up.

United are without Edwin Van Der Sar who is on compassionate leave after his wife fell ill. We are also without John O’Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Owen Hargreaves and Luis Nani. It has come too soon for Mame Biram Diouf, who has recently been granted a work permit and it may also be too soon for Jonny Evans.

Leeds don’t have cup-tied Max Gradel and suspended Leigh Bromby. Ben Parker is a long term absentee and defender Rui Marques is out in Angola for the African Cup Of Nations. Other than that, they have a full squad.

There may be two divisions between both teams but it will be a difficult game. There is a fierce rivalry between Man United and Leeds, it will be a passionate and fiery game. I believe that United will have too much quality but it will be a great one to watch.

Predicted line-up: Ben Foster, Gary Neville, Nemanja Vidic, Wes Brown, Fabio da Silva, Gabriel Obertan, Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Ji-Sung Park, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney.

Predicted scoreline- Man United 3-1 Leeds

Yesterday afternoon Manchester United were knocked out by Everton on penalties, it is still a little bit raw in the minds of Man United supporters especially considering it was Man United who should have really gone through but Everton got the luck and sometimes that is what you need.