FA Cup today – your guide to Sunday’s games

For the final time this season, home advantage will be a factor in the FA Cup before the competition moves to a Wembley-bound semi-final.

The final three quarter-finals will be played on Sunday, with three non-Premier League teams battling it out for a place in the last four. Get your FA Cup bingo cards ready as David prepares his catapult, books fly out of various windows and the intense wizardry of the competition fills up with plenty of time.

Here’s what you need to know about Sunday’s matches – none of these are, of course, easy games.

For the first time in eight years, will feature at least one championship team FA Cup semi-finals. However, with both clubs tied in the top six of the division as the regular season enters its final nine matches, perhaps Sheffield United and Blackburn Rovers will focus on returning to the top flight at the cost of ending their cup runs.

The Blades may be facing financial “cuts, cuts, cuts” – as manager Paul Heckingbottom put it – but history is on their side; Blackburn have not beaten Sheffield United at Bramall Lane since Alan Shearer grabbed a brace to reverse Andy Scott’s opener in 1994 – the only two outfielders who played for Blackburn that season were still alive at the time.

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Grimsby Town have the chance to indelibly ink the club’s name in FA Cup folklore in front of 5,000 inflatable fish-waving traveling fans this weekend. Already, the Mariners have become only the fifth fourth-tier team in the competition’s history to reach the quarter-finals. However, Oxford United (1964), Colchester United (1971), Bradford City (1976) and Cambridge United (1990) all ended their history before the semi-finals.

brighton, who sit 76 places above Grimsby and harbor genuine aspirations of European football next season, do not appear to be accommodating hosts. However, Roberto De Zerbi insisted his side are in for “a tough game” and it would be “a big, big mistake” to underestimate the Mariners as Brighton aim to reach their first semi-final since 1983. Is.

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fulham First contested a competitive match in 1922 at Old Trafford. The 2–2 draw earned by the Cottagers against Manchester United in the Second Division has been one of the few relative successes achieved by the club at the venue in the latter century.

In the past 101 years, Fulham have won just two matches against Manchester United at Old Trafford, losing 33 of their 40 fixtures.

Marco Silva has this steely iteration of the Cottagers on course for the club’s first top-half Premier League 11 years gone by but it has been two decades since the club’s last victory at the Theater of Dreams.

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