FA Cup third-round draw: holders Manchester United go to Arsenal

The FA Cup holders Manchester United enter the fray at subsequent month’s third-round stage with a go to to the file 14-time winners Arsenal, in a repeat of the 2005 ultimate.

This stage of the competitors sees the arrival of the 44 golf equipment from the Premier League and Championship, becoming a member of the 20 lower-league and non-league sides who received in spherical two.

The draw was performed at Outdated Trafford by former United strikers Mark Hughes and Dion Dublin and that formidable fixture drew groans from these current, the primary of solely two all-Premier League ties together with Aston Villa v West Ham. ­United’s Wembley victory in Might was the thirteenth time they’d lifted the trophy. Erik ten Hag, the profitable supervisor that day, has since been changed by Ruben Amorim.

Liverpool, eight-time winners and the Premier League leaders, will host Accrington, evoking recollections of a Nineteen Eighties Milk Advertising and marketing Board advert the place a younger Reds followers stated: “If I don’t drink plenty of milk, I’ll solely be adequate to play for ­Accrington Stanley.” “Accrington Stanley? Who are they?” his buddy requested. “Precisely,” got here the response.

Pep Guardiola’s out-of-form Manchester Metropolis, who misplaced final yr’s ultimate, will participate in an area affair in opposition to League Two’s Salford Metropolis, who function a bunch of former United luminaries amongst their administrators.

Fifth-tier Tamworth, who knocked out League One Burton in a dramatic penalty shootout on Sunday, earned a fairytale residence draw in opposition to Tottenham. Championship facet Leeds, who received the trophy in 1972, will function in an all-Yorkshire tie in opposition to League Two Harrogate.

Ties might be performed over the ­weekend of Saturday 11 January.