Manchester United (Possible, 4-4-2): Lindergaard; Rafael, Smalling, Brown, Evra; Obertan, Gibson, Scholes, Giggs; Berbatov, Rooney.

Arsenal (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Almunia; Clichy, Kosclielny, Djourou; Denilson, Wilshere; Nasri, Diaby, Arshavin; Chamakh.

Referee: Chris Foy. Matches: 25. R1 Y55.

Tale of the game
Two down, two to go. After losing the Carling Cup final, Arsenal are now out of the Champions League – but they can still win the coveted league and FA Cup double. Arsène Wenger was shattered by the Tuesday night defeat in Spain where they lost Robin van Persie to a red card – the 83rd during his managerial reign – and lost 3-1 in Nou Camp and 4-3 on aggregate to Barcelona.

Arsenal travel to Old Trafford after winning just two games in their last six in all competitions. Those victories came against Stoke, in the Barclays Premier League, and Leyton orient, in the FA Cup.

Getting to the quarter-finals has not been simple for Wenger and his season; they needed a replay against Leeds and Leyton Orient. And against Huddersfield they needed an own goal and late penalty to beat the League One side.

United, though, have had an easier passage, winning all three ties at the first attempt and conceding just one goal. After beating Liverpool, with an early Ryan Giggs penalty, they won 2-1 at Southampton and then rode a small storm before overcoming non-league Crawley Town.

United will be without Nani, who suffered a gashed leg in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool, while Michael Owen, Ji-Sung Park, Owen Hargreaves, Jonny Evans and Antonio Valencia are missing while Rio Ferdinand (calf) remains a doubt.

Arsenal, meanwhile, will be without Alex Song, Theo Walcott, Lukasz Fabianski, Thomas Vermaelen and Emmanuel Frimpong while goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny damaged his hand in Barcelona and would have been rested anyway.

And Cesc Fabregas has also been ruled out after suffering a recurrence of his hamstring injury.

Previous FA Cup Meetings

    * 1906, Rd 4: Man Utd 2 Arsenal 3
    * 1937, Rd 4: Arsenal 5 Man Utd 0
    * 1951, Rd 5: Man Utd 1 Arsenal 0
    * 1962, Rd 4: Man Utd 1 Arsenal 0
    * 1979, Final: Arsenal 3 Man Utd 2
    * 1983, Semi-Final: Man Utd 2 Arsenal 1
    * 1988, Rd 5: Arsenal 2 Man Utd 1
    * 1999, Semi-Final: Arsenal 0 Man Utd 0 aet
    * 1999, Semi-Final Replay: Arsenal 1 Man Utd 2 aet
    * 2003, Rd 5: Man Utd 0 Arsenal 2
    * 2004, Semi-Final: Arsenal 0 Man Utd 1
    * 2005, Final: Arsenal 0 Man Utd 0 aet. Arsenal won on pens.
    * 2008, Rd 5: Man Utd 4 Arsenal 0

Routes To Quarter-Final

United

    * Rd 3: Liverpool (h) W 1-0
    * Rd 4: Southampton (a) W 2-1
    * Rd 5: Crawley (h) W 1-0

Arsenal

    * Rd 3: Leeds (h) D 1-1
    * Rd 3 Replay: Leeds (a) W 3-1
    * Rd 4: Huddersfield (h) W 2-1
    * Rd 5: L Orient (a) D 1-1
    * Rd 5 Replay: L Orient (h) W 5-0

Stat of the game: United have won five and drawn one of the last six against Arsenal and last lost at home to their close rivals in September 2006, in the Barclays Premier League.



Match

Arsenal should just lose and save her fans the trouble of hoping that they would win the FA cup cos they won't even if they beat man utd, they will still end up losing somewhere.

^^^ Shut up,
who gave the permission to talk

why must you be rude?
Last time i checked, everyone on this site can "speak",

yong_noble:

Arsenal should just lose and save her fans the trouble of hoping that they would win the FA cup cos they won't even if they beat man utd, they will still end up losing somewhere.

^^. Sharrap dia! @ Muki, obviously they're gonna rob us again, what with your listing ten Arsenal players against eleven of United's. Abeg correct the mistake 'sharperly',  or is Van Persie's CL red card relevant in the FA? (joking). GUNNERS TILL I KICK A BUCKET!

@ bosun abeg dont mind him with his chicken mouth

lets c may b we can win this

yong_noble:

Arsenal should just lose and save her fans the trouble of hoping that they would win the FA cup cos they won't even if they beat man utd, they will still end up losing somewhere.

This guy is high on Gulder

United's players,Manager,fans & supporters are all arrogant & rude!!!
F**k 'em all.

Watch out for the Man U today as they beat Arsenal at least 8goals to none. Up Man U!

gunners ma je noni

mum2:

Watch out for the Man U today as they beat Arsenal at least 8goals to none. Up Man U!

u be fool, how the hell would man u beat arsenal 8 goals to nothing??!

Up united, let be fare nigerians,manutd deserve to win, court!

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To spice up this FA Cup 6th round match, here is the King himself "Nani Jackson" with his latest Hit Single "Smooth Carragher"



DISCLAIMER: This performance is a work of fiction and any similarities to true life events is either a miracle or a figment of your imagination.

Tunsbobo:

u be fool, how the hell would man u beat arsenal 8 goals to nothing??!

Like we havent seen Man Utd beat Assanal 6-1 before

what we are about to see is simply the meeting of the two complainants in EPL. over-take must overtake over-take today. we will see who complains more.
the likely reasons wenger will give today include, bad officiating, bad turf and bad tackles. for man u, fergie will complain more of bad officiating and match fitness.
it is important to note that the two sides as it is are the best in england but they are the worst losers too. non of them likes to accept defeat but somebody must loose today.
to me, the earlier wenger and his young guns go home the better to enable the fans take some good rest after what has been looking like another promising season.
again, it will give wenger a good reason to know that his best is not good enough.
since wenger is not winning trophy again this year and has started posting lost, it will be better he go back to what he does best - selling fabregas, van persie and ashravin at least to post profit.
for man u, loosing will make fergie understand that diminishing marginal returns is real and with his age, retirement cld be in the interest of the club with him going home now the ovation is high.

1025:

what we are about to see is simply the meeting of the two complainants in EPL. over-take must overtake over-take today. we will see who complains more.
the likely reasons wenger will give today include, bad officiating, bad turf and bad tackles. for man u, fergie will complain more of bad officiating and match fitness.
it is important to note that the two sides as it is are the best in england but they are the worst losers too. non of them likes to accept defeat but somebody must loose today.
to me, the earlier wenger and his young guns go home the better to enable the fans take some good rest after what has been looking like another promising season.
again, it will give wenger a good reason to know that his best is not good enough.
since wenger is not winning trophy again this year and has started posting lost, it will be better he go back to what he does best - selling fabregas, van persie and ashravin at least to post profit.
for man u, loosing will make fergie understand that diminishing marginal returns is real and with his age, retirement cld be in the interest of the club with him going home now the ovation is high.

i quite agree wt u on this

I will like my team to win. But wit MAN' United "Orvebolian and Howard Webbmania" in d UK and PDP's rigging machine in Nigeria, as far as winning is concerned; anything can happen.
Gunners for life!

Starting line-ups

Arsenal:
Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Djorou, Gibbs, Denilson, Diaby, Wilshere, Nasri, Arshavin, Van Persie

Manure:
VDS, Smalling, Vidic, Evra, Brown, Gibson, Rafael, Fabio, O'Shea, Hernandez, Rooney

That manure MF looks depleted, go boys.

duduspace:

To spice up this FA Cup 6th round match, here is the King himself "Nani Jackson" with his latest Hit Single "Smooth Carragher"



DISCLAIMER: This performance is a work of fiction and any similarities to true life events is either a miracle or a figment of your imagination.

Lol. You be f.ool. But seriously, Man U kicked us out with the help of their henchman and its kinda nice to have Arsenal remain trophyless longer than us so am undecided on who to support. You?

Another exit from a competition for the ARSEnal and its ARSEne Whiner manager!!!

They are not ready to win trophies yet, when they are ready, it show and they'll know it,

Man Utd, go ahead n win, this couls be ur only tropy this year, or one of your three trophies,

abeg,please post streaming links oooo, abeg

Hahahahaha see Arsenal playing like barcelona against united

hmmmm

Go Gunners!!!
Win this!!

ManU should play good football,, wats the long ball

No wonder the Germans call dem ''kick and rush ball''

the boys are over elaborating in theri passes n taking too many touches

man u is trying to take his game on the break

let see sha

goooooaaaaaaalllll!!!!!

Gunners are behind!

Fabioooooo!!!! Goal!!!!

Is Arsenal on their way OUT?