MANCHESTER UNITED are still outsiders to win the FA Cup – despite four of the traditional Big Six being out of the competition.
The Red Devils’ kickstarted their defence of the trophy last month with a shootout victory over Arsenal at the Emirates.
Ruben Amorim’s troops booked passage to the fifth round last Friday with a controversial 2-1 win over Leicester City.
United’s chances of winning the trophy increased on Sunday when Prem leaders Liverpool suffered a shock defeat to Championship strugglers Plymouth Argyle.
But they’re NOT the favourites to win the trophy.
Multiple bookmakers have struggling Premier League champions Manchester City as the favourites to win the competition.
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Newcastle United are the second favourites ahead of United, who have blown hot and cold this season.
High-flying Aston Villa are the bookies’ fourth favourites to win the competition.
Unsurprisingly, League Two outfit Doncaster Rovers have been given the longest odds to win the tournament.
Those odds, however, will likely shorten should they dump out Crystal Palace in their fourth-round clash this evening.
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And Rovers boss Grant McCann insists his troops won’t sacrifice their style to secure a giant-killing victory.
He said: “We’ll approach the game as we always do, it’s not for us sitting behind the ball and letting Crystal Palace have 80 per cent possession.
“It’s not the way I play, not the way this team wants to play, so we’ll be aggressive as we always are.
“We’ve played three games away from home to get here, all tough games in different ways, and we’ve come through them unscathed.
“So we’ve deserved this opportunity to test ourselves against a very good Premier League team.
“We want to put a good performance on for the fans to go, ‘They’re not a bad side, Doncaster, I want to go back and watch them again.’
“We know the better we perform, the higher we are in the league, the more fans come to our game.”
The fifth-round draw will take place prior Palace’s visit to the Eco-Power Stadium.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
