The FA Cup draw picks up on Wednesday with a Round 2 match between Crawley Town and the Bristol Rovers after the first match was postponed and now the two will meet at Checkatrade.com Stadium and the match starts at 2:45 pm ET and 7:45 pm local time and comes as the two clubs finish up their round after Manchester United lost over the weekend in an upset.
Crawley comes into the match after dealing with postponements to start the year and now they come in against Bristol and they have been playing up and down in League One, coming into the match on Wednesday after winning against Notts County and losing to Milton Keynes Dons and that came after a win against Leyton Orient and a draw against Preston North End. Crawley comes in with a busy schedule coming up and they have matches with Coventry City and Wolverhampton Wanderers next and this comes before a match with Rotherham United.
Bristol comes in after dealing with postponements as well and now they picks up against Crawley and it comes after the team lost to Rochdale and pulled a draw with Torquay United and that came after a win over Portsmouth in League Two. Matt Tubbs will be out for Crawley as they get ready for the match on Wednesday and in the FA Cup second round replay, Tubbs will be out after playing on loan at Rotherham and the club will also be dealing with Dannie Bulman being out with a facial fracture.
Manchester United suffered a strong of tough losses and they fell in the Capital One Cup against Sunderland and in the FA Cup round 3 against Swansea and now they will try and turn things around with a match at Old Trafford against Swansea City and that will be very anticipated with the way the club has played. The team has a match at Stamford Bridge after that and then two home at home and those will be crucial as they try to move up the league table in the English Premier League.
Check here for the FA Cup live coverage for Crawley and Bristol.
Here is a look from Reuters.com about the latest loss for Manchester United in the FA Cup and now the club is out of the League Cup for just the second time in 30 years at the round three stage and now the team has lost three in a row. Manchester United have to play the officials as well as the opposition, manager David Moyes complained after his side were beaten 2-1 by Sunderland in the League Cup semi-final first leg on Tuesday.
Moyes, under pressure after losing his third consecutive game in all competitions, pointed the finger at referee Andre Marriner, who he criticized for awarding a free kick that led to Sunderland's opening goal.
The referee also had a decisive hand in Sunderland's winner, pointing to the penalty spot in the second half after Adam Johnson had been felled by Tom Cleverley, allowing Fabio Borini to smash the spot kick into the roof of the net.
"It is difficult we just need to keep going," Moyes told Sky Sports. "We didn't do a lot wrong. I thought the referee was going to blow in our direction for (the free kick that led to) the first goal. I couldn't believe he gave (Sunderland) a free kick. It was a terrible decision.
"We are all just laughing at them (the officials) at the minute.
"It looks as though we are having to play them (officials) as well as the opposition at the moment."
United, who were knocked out of the FA Cup by Swansea City on Sunday and beaten by Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on New Years' Day, have endured a miserable start to the campaign under Moyes.
With the club seventh in the Premier League and 11 points behind leaders Arsenal, the League Cup had taken on added significance as Moyes's most likely route to silverware.
He remains confident of getting a result in the second leg on January 22, to tee up a likely final against local rivals Manchester City who play West Ham United in the other semi-final.
"I thought the players, our crowd were unbelievable, the players deserved to get a result," he added. "It's a two legged game and I am really looking forward to the second leg."
(Reuters)
