Not a bad draw for Ipswich (if Exeter get through, we would definitely be on TV, and we’d have a great chance). Boring as hell, and won’t be on TV, and won’t win, if Forest get through.
FA Cup 24/25 | 5th round: 1st March
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Another prem side, and City get there usual lower league team at home.
Fulham at home it is then.
Fulham at home it is then.
Newcastle and Brighton were my biggest fear
Would have been Liverpool if they got through. Probably would have been better that
Bournemouth as well.
Went from
"Yeah. Home tie against Fulham!"
to
"Are you fecking kidding me?
How'd they pull Plymouth?!"
"Yeah. Home tie against Fulham!"
to
"Are you fecking kidding me?
How'd they pull Plymouth?!"
At least Newcastle or Brighton’s going out.
Another home game 
Lower league opposition again means Grealish should get a start
Not a bad draw. At this point, the fa cup is our best bet to reach europe
The very definition of hand picking the draws is getting: Salford, Leyton and Plymouth!
Nope , Liverpool out wins
Bloody hell.
It's just the same thing every year - people will probably still be saying we're "lucky" because two of our three games have been at home again (setting aside how sh*t our home form has been).
But once again all three ties against PL sides. We never get a City type run - Salford, Orient, now Plymouth. Every year at least one of the big teams gets easy draws like that in various rounds, while we're getting PL teams - occasionally championship sides - every bloody round.
Another tough game. It's winnable - if we start getting our act together at Old Trafford. But another one that's going to be 50-50 and is once again also very loseable.
It's just the same thing every year - people will probably still be saying we're "lucky" because two of our three games have been at home again (setting aside how sh*t our home form has been).
But once again all three ties against PL sides. We never get a City type run - Salford, Orient, now Plymouth. Every year at least one of the big teams gets easy draws like that in various rounds, while we're getting PL teams - occasionally championship sides - every bloody round.
Another tough game. It's winnable - if we start getting our act together at Old Trafford. But another one that's going to be 50-50 and is once again also very loseable.
Avoided City away. Slot playing 4D chess.
And Villa. Basically I didn't want any PL team away.
If we can't beat Fulham at home, we aren't winning this cup anyway. We don't have to travel, and Fulham aren't all that. Better than getting Brighton, Bournemouth, Forest, City, Newcastle, or Villa.
Europa League is surely easier to win.
Can't really have any complaints about Fulham at home, yeah
We’d much rather the Europa league though. There’s no real competition in that since champions league teams don’t get dropped down anymore
At the moment, playing teams away is a bigger advantage than at OT.
Would have Fulham as favourites for this one as well.
Maybe one of the easier PL teams to draw, but I still don't fancy us. Would've been better off being away from OT.
Typical easy draw for Abu Dhabi FC
Any PL team at home we are probably underdogs. We're fecking appalling at home.
The only games we've won at OT in months were against two sides who will be relegated in Leicester and Southampton, and an injury hit Rangers side who just lost yesterday at home to Queens Park. And we needed last minute goals in all of them to scrape by.
The only games we've won at OT in months were against two sides who will be relegated in Leicester and Southampton, and an injury hit Rangers side who just lost yesterday at home to Queens Park. And we needed last minute goals in all of them to scrape by.
Bournemouth, Villa, Fulham, Brighton are all in a row 7th-10th in the PL. I'd say the draw is about the same as getting the likes of Brighton or Bournemouth, really. Though Villa are stronger and so they'd have been a worse draw, yeah.
Yes, it's a winnable game and, in theory, you can say we don't 'deserve' to win the cup if we can't expect to beat Fulham. And you can say the same about Leicester in the last round. It's more that, once again, it's PL opponents and so we have to go strong with selection, and will have another tough 50-50 battle that will go to the wire (same as 3rd and 4th round v Arsenal and Leicester).
Whereas other teams get plenty of lower league draws that allow you to rest players entirely, or have a comfortable win and sub them off early. Those kinds of 'freebies' are really helpful when trying to get through a season while also staying in those competitions. We very rarely get to benefit from that. Every round is a slog against PL teams.
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Last Man United v Fulham FA Cup tie in Old Trafford was eventful
Two years ago with Fulham 1-0 ahead then Fulham's self-inflicted capitulation with red cards for Willian and Aleksandar Mitrovic, plus manager Marco Silva and end up losing 3-1
Not many of the players that started then are still around.
De Gea, Shaw, Wan-Bissaka, Martínez, Maguire, Sabitzer, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, McTominay, Sancho, Weghorst and Subs brought on Antony,Fred.
Two years ago with Fulham 1-0 ahead then Fulham's self-inflicted capitulation with red cards for Willian and Aleksandar Mitrovic, plus manager Marco Silva and end up losing 3-1
Not many of the players that started then are still around.
De Gea, Shaw, Wan-Bissaka, Martínez, Maguire, Sabitzer, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, McTominay, Sancho, Weghorst and Subs brought on Antony,Fred.
Something really dodgy about these City draws. It's every bloody season.
The FA Cup is wild. If we lost to Coventry because AWB was one foot deeper or on pens we would all have assumed that if we made the final City would have hammered us.
Moral of the story, don't listen to my gut.
Fulham at home is a pretty decent draw considering what was possible.
Fulham at home is a pretty decent draw considering what was possible.
Every round is a slog, because the team is wank. If we were half decent, the Leicester game would have been a walk in the park - they are terrible. In the context of this draw we got a team from the middle of the pack in terms of what's left, and we got them at home. It's not some super unfortunate run of draws. We are talking three games - one very hard, one pretty easy (on paper), and one reasonably challenging.
I simply don't subscribe to this "every game is a struggle" narrative. Last season we had League 1 and 2 opposition in the first two rounds, and a Championship side in the semi-final.
The Europa League is probably easier to win than the FA Cup
Somebody tried to injure our Ethan.
We did get Newport last year tbf, but I take your point. Feels like city never play anybody in the cup.
It's about a middle of the road draw, yeah - we could have for once got one of the half dozen or so non-PL sides rather than another (top half) PL team. But, yeah, could have been one of the four or so even tougher PL opponents, and could have been away (though with our awful home form, that becomes less of an advantage).
It's the cumulation that's so annoying though as well. In the same way it's annoying that City got Plymouth - but even more so given they've also had Salford and Orient in previous rounds. It's mildly annoying that we've drawn a tricky PL opponent at home - but much more so given that, once again, that means it's been PL sides all the way so far for us.
True, drawing them and Wigan last year was a rare example - and look what happened, we won it!
We were due that, because with the exception of those, and Tranmere a few years ago, it's been PL and championship sides all the way over the last number of years. So, yeah, well remembered that we did have decent early rounds last year.
It's certainly back to the usual this year!
Palace take the lead. Munoz.
It's pants.
Munoz, that was a nasty challenge, players have been sent off for less. Ref doesn`t even give yellow.
Ennis getting a Palace player back
How do City always have this absolutely ridiculous luck in cup draws? We get Prem teams pretty much every round in both the league and FA cup, whereas if Dog and Duck FC scrape through against Piddlington town, City who just beat WelshtownPlumbersandJoiners will face them at bloodmoneyStadium next. It's getting stupid at this point. Arsenal away, Leicester and Fulham already.
To be fair, if you're going to do it it's kind of more fun to do it the hard way (see:1999 treble and the absolutely stacked list of teams we faced in the CL and FA cup) but it's challenging for sure.
To be fair, if you're going to do it it's kind of more fun to do it the hard way (see:1999 treble and the absolutely stacked list of teams we faced in the CL and FA cup) but it's challenging for sure.