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Man Utd    v    Crawley Town

Event: FA Cup fifth round

Venue: Old Trafford

Date: Saturday, 19 February

Kick-off: 17:15 GMT

Crawley boss Steve Evans is really positive about the tie and is hopeful his team can get a positive result. Their high spirited captain Pablo Mills also believes they can win this away tie. The importance and seriousness of the match is as such that United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and assistant Mike Phelan also visited Crawley’s match against Wrexham to devise a strategy. United’s defense might be vulnerable as Johnny Evans and Rio Ferdinand will be unavailable due to injuries and Park Ji-Sung has also acquired a hamstring problem. For Crawley, John Dempster, Josh Simpson and Scott Neilson will miss the match as well.

Chelsea v Everton

Event: FA Cup fourth round second tie

Venue: Stamford Bridge

Date: Saturday, 19 February

Kick-off: 12:30 GMT

Carlo Ancelotti will look to score a hat-rick of cup wins and this will be easier if Chelsea beat Everton on Saturday. In their first meeting at the Goodison Park, 1-1 was the final score although there were several opportunities to score. Chelsea has spent a lot on January signings and one of their signing, Fernando Torres has failed to impress and justify his worth as yet. Didier Drogba will start in place of Torres and will look to score to firmly establish his place as the striker after he was left out for the match against Fulham which Chelsea drew 1-1. Chelsea will be unable to test David Luiz as well. The inform striker Louis Saha will not feature due to a hamstring problem which is surely a sigh of relief for Chelsea as his record against them is very good. Jack Rodwell will also miss the match although he recently recovered from a groin problem.

 In other matches Stoke City play Brighton and Birmingham City play Sheff Wed.