{"id":22399,"date":"2026-02-16T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22399"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:26:29","slug":"fa-cup-fifth-round-draw-league-one-mansfield-host-arsenal-as-man-city-head-to-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22399","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup fifth-round draw: League One Mansfield host Arsenal as Man City head to Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">League One side Mansfield Town will host 14-time winners Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Stags defeated Premier League stragglers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c4g75x214glt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burnley 2-1<\/a> on Saturday afternoon, producing a remarkable second-half comeback at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Manchester City will visit Newcastle in one of two all-Premier League ties, in a repeat of one of this season&#8217;s League Cup semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-league Macclesfield could be in line to face a third top-flight opponent in a row &#8211; either the Silkmen or Brentford will head to West Ham in round five after Monday night&#8217;s tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunderland face a second successive away trip in the competition as they were drawn against Port Vale or Bristol City &#8211; that fourth-round tie was postponed until Tuesday, 3 March (19:45 GMT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyg877d2yqo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">because of a waterlogged pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Championship promotion chasers Wrexham welcome eight-time winners Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The matches will be played across the weekend of 7-8 March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwy9ewq4yp9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League One side Mansfield Town&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}