Huddersfield Town v Manchester United FA Cup- 5th Round Match Thread k/o 17:30 BT Spo

Bret Hart

Huddersfield will be without midfielder Alex Pritchard for the visit of Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday.

The former Norwich player is cup-tied while midfielder Aaron Mooy has a knee injury and is out.

Manchester United defender Eric Bailly is set to return after a three-month absence following ankle surgery.

Midfielder Ander Herrera and striker Marcus Rashford are both out with muscle injuries.

Boss Jose Mourinho has confirmed that midfielder Paul Pogba will start the game at the John Smith's Stadium.

Mourinho has also said reports midfielder Pogba regrets joining the club and could leave this summer are "lies".

Match stats

Huddersfield have won just one of their last 13 games in all competitions against Man Utd (D3 L9), though that win did come at the John Smith's Stadium earlier this season (2-1).

Man Utd have won two of their three FA Cup ties against Huddersfield, most recently winning 5-0 in a third-round tie in January 1963, United legend Denis Law scoring a hat-trick in that game.

The Terriers haven't reached the FA Cup quarter-finals since the 1971-72 campaign, losing each of their last five fifth-round ties, including in a replay against Manchester City in last season's competition.

Man Utd have progressed past the fifth round on each of the last eight occasions they've reached this stage - the last two clubs to eliminate them at this stage have gone on to win the trophy (Liverpool 2005-06, Arsenal 2002-03).

Huddersfield have won their last two games by the same scoreline, 4-1. They last scored 4+ goals in three consecutive matches back in January 1928.

Alexis Sanchez has been directly involved in 15 goals in 15 appearances in the FA Cup (eight goals and seven assists).

VAR will be in use for this evening's game.

Prediction : 1-1

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Bret Hart

Huddersfield

1 Lössl
33 Hadergjonaj
25 Jorgensen
26 Schindler
5 Kongolo
8 Billing
19 Williams
23 Quaner
22 Ince
17 van La Parra
24 Mounie

Substitutes
2 Smith
3 Malone
4 Whitehead
6 Hogg
11 Sabiri
13 Coleman
20 Depoitre

Man Utd

20 Romero
18 Young
12 Smalling
2 Lindelöf
23 Shaw
16 Carrick
31 Matic
8 Mata
39 McTominay
7 Sánchez
9 R Lukaku

Substitutes
3 Bailly
11 Martial
14 Lingard
36 Darmian
40 Castro Pereira
47 Gomes
48 Hamilton

Hotblack Desiato

Get in. Lukaku

Rekop dog

Nice. Very dangerous man after an early goal. More of a confidence striker than most.

Agent Coulson

That was a clear handball by Smalling.

Rekop dog

United so far resemble a conference team who took a shock lead and are holding on for their dear lives.

Harry Palmr

Mourinho is a big mole on the face of the beautiful game.

They'll win it but everyone will just hate them a bit more by the end.

eagle eye

Shaw looks like a real liability.

Dave0301

eagle eye wrote: »

Shaw looks like a real liability.

Not sure it is fully his fault. He is being left very exposed by the players in front of him.

mickmackey1

do we really need another Utd thread zzzzzzz....

Hotblack Desiato

You were saying?

Mata 2-0

Mars Bar

That's some touch and finish

Mars Bar

Are you for real?

A Dub in Glasgo

Goal chalked off following VAR review

pudzey101

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Agent Coulson

Clear Offside.


How VAR didn't give the handball on Smalling though is crazy.

Rossi IRL

Linesman was right

VAR was wrong

It looked level to me, what makes it worse is we are not shown what the VAR is looking at

A Dub in Glasgo

The lines used are not straight

Mars Bar

Yeah, it's not a lot of fun when your team is at the end of a var decision!

chupacabra

What an absolute farce

Unearthly

What the hell were those crooked hand drawn lines

A Dub in Glasgo

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Clear Offside.


How VAR didn't give the handball on Smalling though is crazy.

VAR doesn't give anything, the ref decides whether to review an incident using VAR and then decides following review. The ref decided not to review the Smalling incident as it was ball to hand

eagle eye

When I seen the goal and the first replay it looked to me like Mata was onside. The picture was confusing but made Mata look offside but I'm very interested in seeing it again.

Rekop dog

Looked off when they got the lines straight. Got there in the end but farcically slow.

mickmackey1

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

You were saying?

Mata 2-0

spoke too soon my sweet garsun

Decuc500

Joke of a decision. How is that clearly offside?

A Dub in Glasgo

Looks offside though so VAR review got it right

Hotblack Desiato

mickmackey1 wrote: »

spoke too soon my sweet garsun

Not my fault that they can't implement VAR properly

eagle eye

Looked onside to me, disgraceful decision.
I wonder are they doing this on purpose to just turn fans against video replay?

BorneTobyWilde

Ruled out and clearly on. Wobbly lines

Agent Coulson

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

VAR doesn't give anything, the ref decides whether to review an incident using VAR and then decides following review. The ref decided not to review the Smalling incident as it was ball to hand

The VAR ref can instruct the ref on the pitch that he missed something as well.


Smallings hand was in no way a natural position in front of his face.

madcabbage

Is there a 2yr old in charge of drawing the lines? What a shambles

ThunbergsAreGo

Looked off to me,

Why does it need to be clearly? Seems like bt just looking to stir it

It's decisions like that var is for. Thankfully Huddersfield are not unjustly two goals down

Agent Coulson

In Germany the players voted by an overwhelming majority to get rid of VAR not sure they have influence but the players don't like it.

Xenji

Looks like they are using MS Paint.

Trigger

In fairness even as a United fan I couldn’t help but laugh at the lines they used :pac: it was hilarious

Rekop dog

Rekop dog wrote: »

Looked off when they got the lines straight. Got there in the end but farcically slow.

Huh on reflection the bt lines make him on. But who knows what lines to trust. You're really at the mercy of taking something for granted.

It's been a farce at times in Serie A too, taking ages and still getting things wrong. Get rid imo

Trigger

Rekop dog wrote: »

Huh on reflection the bt lines make him on. But who knows what lines to trust. You're really at the mercy of taking something for granted.

It's be a farce at times in Serie A too, taking ages and still getting things wrong. Get rid imo

You should take the one that’s actually parallel to the lines on the pitch maybe?

AidoEirE

How is that a straight line on VAR.....joke

ThunbergsAreGo

Rekop dog wrote: »

Rekop dog wrote: »

Looked off when they got the lines straight. Got there in the end but farcically slow.

Huh on reflection the bt lines make him on. But who knows what lines to trust. You're really at the mercy of taking something for granted.

It's been a farce at times in Serie A too, taking ages and still getting things wrong. Get rid imo

Find it hard to trust bt looking to get something to talk about in a really dull fa cup round

Giggsy11

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The VAR ref can instruct the ref on the pitch that he missed something as well.


Smallings hand was in no way a natural position in front of his face.

Commentator said VAR reviewed and said not penalty.

Agent Coulson

So whose lines do we trust the PL's, BT's, Sky's

Giggsy11

AidoEirE wrote: »

How is that a straight line on VAR.....joke

Pathetic. Look at the lines, it's not even parallel to grass cut lines and penalty box line. Shambolic.

Agent Coulson

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Commentator said VAR reviewed and said not penalty.

No they said it wasn't a clear and obvious miss by the ref that's a different thing than not a pen.

Harry Palmr

Always a drama with VAR

AidoEirE

His hand is offside apprantly. If your running full speed your hands do that up and down movement, its incredible thats offside.

Wasnt even a bloody straight line

Ohmeha

VAR needs to be scrapped immediately, technology is incompetent, and Neil Swarbrigg is incompetent

Not even those two-year wonky lines could have shown up that was a blatant on-side

BorneTobyWilde

Even the second set of lines are off. Geez

Giggsy11

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So whose lines do we trust the PL's, BT's, Sky's

The one that is parallel to Penalty line.

StringerBell

Your hand can't be offside

fyfe79

In fairness to Utd, that's a terrible call with the offside. The lines drawn by VAR were WAY off - they should've been parallel with the penalty box, which they weren't. Mata was level.

Still, should've been a penalty with Smalling earlier and that wasn't given. So, on the balance of play, it's even.

But that doesn't excuse whatever nonsense happened with the VAR for Mata's goal.