FA Cup Fifth round draw

Luton Town's reward for beating Norwich in the fourth round of the FA Cup is a fifth-round tie with Championship side Millwall.

Paul Buckle's men made history on Saturday by becoming the first non-league team to knock out a top division team in the Premier League era, Coventry the last to suffer the ignominy against Sutton United in 1989.

The two clubs have history in the competition, albeit not of the positive variety, with the riot at their 1985 sixth round tie at Kenilworth Road leading to a ban on away fans by Luton that lasted for four years.

The weekend's other giant-killers were also drawn at home with Oldham, 3-2 winners over Liverpool, given the chance to knock out Everton in the last-16 and MK Dons drawn at home to Championship side Barnsley.

There is only one all Premier League tie which sees Manchester United host struggling Reading, while Manchester City were also drawn at home, taking on Spurs' conquerors Leeds United.

Arsenal will take on Blackburn at the Emirates with Chelsea facing a long trip to Middlesbrough if they can overcome League One side Brentford in their Stamford Bridge replay - Sunday's first game between the sides ended in a thrilling 2-2 draw.

The final game is also dependant on a replay with Wigan drawn away to either Huddersfield or Leicester who drew 1-1 on Saturday.



Fifth round draw:

Huddersfield Town or Leicester City v Wigan Athletic

MK Dons v Barnsley

Oldham Athletic v Everton

Luton Town v Millwall

Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers

Manchester City v Leeds United

Manchester United v Reading

Middlesbrough v Brentford or Chelsea



Ties to be played the weekend of 16/17 February.




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FA Cup team news for Premier League teams

Bournemouth vs. Wigan:



Wigan manager Roberto Martinez is likely to make changes.



Republic of Ireland midfielder James McCarthy is omitted.



Martinez played a second-string in the first tie but he may be tempted to give on-loan Manchester United striker Angelo Henriquez his first start.



Centre-back Ivan Ramis is expected to be out long-term with knee ligament damage and although Antolin Alcaraz is due back from a groin problem he is unlikely to be risked.



Provisional squad: Pollitt, Stam, Boyce, Figueroa, Golobart, Jones, Gomez, Fyvie, Redmond, Boselli, McManaman, Dicko, McArthur, Henriquez, Campabadal, Kiernan, Al Habsi, Espinoza.



Stoke vs. Crystal Palace:



Stoke boss Tony Pulis is expected to make a number of adjustments to his first XI.



Goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen, a regular for the Potters in cup competition, looks set to come in for Asmir Begovic once again, while striker Michael Owen will be hoping to be back involved after starting the original tie - a 0-0 draw at Selhurst Park - but then missing out on a place in the squad for Saturday's 4-0 Barclays Premier League loss to Chelsea.



Defender Marc Wilson and midfielder Rory Delap, who have been sidelined by a broken leg and a calf problem respectively, remain unavailable.



Provisional squad: Begovic, Shotton, Shawcross, Cameron, Huth, Upson, Wilkinson, Whelan, Nzonzi, Walters, Kightly, Etherington, Jones, Sorensen, Whitehead, Crouch, Jerome, Adam, Palacios, Owen, Nash.



Sunderland vs. Bolton:



Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill is unlikely to make too many changes.



Defenders Danny Rose and Carlos Cuellar will both miss out again after injuries ruled then out of the 3-0 win over West Ham on Saturday.



The pair suffered hamstring problems during the 2-2 draw at Wanderers earlier this month.



Provisional squad: Mignolet, Westwood, Bardsley, O'Shea, Kilgallon, Bramble, Gardner, Colback, McClean, Larsson, Johnson, Vaughan, Sessegnon, Fletcher, Saha, Campbell, Wickham, McFadden.



Blackpool vs. Fulham:



Fulham manager Martin Jol is expected to rest striker Dimitar Berbatov.



Jol has hinted he will rest several first-team players for the clash at Bloomfield Road given that it comes just three days after the Cottagers' 1-1 draw against Wigan.



Mahamadou Diarra (knee) and Kerim Frei (pelvis) are likely to miss out while Steven Sidwell is a doubt with a hamstring injury.



Provisional squad: Schwarzer, Stockdale, Somogyi, Etheridge, Riether, Hangeland, Hughes, Senderos, Riise, Briggs, Dejagah, Baird, Sidwell, Karagounis, Kacaniklic, Duff, Richardson, Kasami, Ruiz, Rodallega, Berbatov, Petric, Davies.



West Brom vs. QPR:



West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie and right-back Steven Reid will return from injury.



Odemwingie - a target for QPR - has recovered from a calf problem while Reid is available after a shin complaint.



Midfielder Claudio Yacob (hamstring) and strikers Shane Long (dead leg) and Marc-Antoine Fortune (hamstring) are only expected to be fit for the weekend Premier League clash with Aston Villa.



Provisional squad: Foster, Myhill, Daniels, Jones, Reid, Olsson, McAuley, Tamas, Dawson, Popov, Ridgewell, Dorrans, Thorne, Brunt, Morrison, Thomas, Odemwingie, Lukaku, Rosenberg, El Ghanassy,



QPR boss Harry Redknapp has no fresh injury concerns ahead.



Redknapp could make a number of changes after his side's hard-fought 0-0 draw with Tottenham on Saturday, but is still without Junior Hoilett (hamstring) and Samba Diakite, who is at the African Nations Cup.



Defender Ryan Nelsen remains available but forwards Andrew Johnson (knee) and Bobby Zamora (hip) are both absent.



Provisional squad: Green, Cesar, Murphy, Cerny, Onuoha, Hill, Nelsen, Ben-Haim, Ferdinand, Mbia, Park, Fabio, Derry, Granero, Taarabt, Faurlin, Wright-Phillips, Ephraim, Mackie, Cisse, Campbell.

EPL form ´not good enough´, says Gerrard

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says an FA Cup victory will not make up for the club's poor performance in the league this season.



The Reds lifted the Carling Cup in February and booked a meeting with Chelsea in the FA Cup final on May 5 at Wembley, but Gerrard believes he and his team-mates have let themselves down by not challenging for the top four in the Premier League.



"The league position isn't good enough," Gerrard said. "If we go on and win the FA Cup, we can look at the season as a success as far as the cups are concerned.



"But everyone knows what we will have to address and that’s the league form. We won the League Cup but should have moved up the league and put a big fight in for the top four.



"We need more consistency. We need to be winning games against the likes of Wigan and Stoke. We are better than those teams and we haven’t shown that this year.



"In certain matches we’ve created and chances and haven’t finished them off. That’s why we are where we are in the league. We need to be mentally stronger.



"But we’ve got the players and we can certainly improve next season. Back in August the target was top four and two good cup runs. We have delivered two of them.



"The plan now is to get some wins under our belt in the league and go into the cup final in good form."



As for their 2-1 semi-final win over Mersey rivals Everton, Gerrard was delighted with the manner in which the Reds recovered from going one down in the first half.



"There was a lot of pressure on the team with us playing against our big rivals," he said.



"It was disappointing to go a goal down but we all stuck together. We showed what character and what bottle this squad has got to respond and get the win.



"We all rallied around and proved we are a good team. We could have won even more comfortably with the chances we created in the second half."



Goals from expensively-assembled strike partnership Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez sealed the win for Liverpool, and their captain enthused about the duo's quality.



"They were two good performances from them and they showed what they are all about," he said.



"We have got every faith in them as a partnership. They showed again that if they are playing together they will deliver.



"We’re all happy for Andy to get the winner. He’s a good player and it just goes to show that a lot of the stuff that’s written about him is nonsense."