Date: Saturday, January 28 2023
Kickoff Time: 2000 Hrs GMT
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester
FA Cup Form Guide
Manchester United: W
Reading: W
Previous FA Cup Meetings
Manchester United 2—0 Reading
Manchester United 4—0 Reading
Manchester United 2—1 Reading
Reading 2—3 Manchester United
Manchester United 1—1 Reading
All-Time FA Cup Record
Manchester United wins: 9
Reading wins: 1
Draws: 5
Pre-Match Pressers
Erik ten Hag
Paul Ince
Team News
Manchester United
Axel Tuanzebe, Donny van de Beek, Jadon Sancho and Luke Shaw ruled out. Anthony Martial & Diogo Dalot doubtful.
Reading
Sam Hutchinson ruled out. Andy Carroll & Liam Moore doubtful.
Know the opposition
Reading Football Club (commongly known as Reading, and nicknamed The Royals or The Biscuitmen) is a professional football club based in Reading, Berkshire, England. The team play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Reading were formed on 25 December 1871, following a public meeting at the Bridge Street Rooms organised by Joseph Edward Sydenham, who would go on to be club secretary. The early matches were played at Reading Recreation Ground, and later the club held fixtures at Reading Cricket Ground, Coley Park and Caversham Cricket Ground. The switch to professionalism in 1895 resulted in the need for a bigger ground and, to this end, the club moved again, to the purpose-built Elm Park on 5 September 1896. Reading were elected to the Football League Third Division South of the Football League in 1920.
Reading won the 1987–88 Full Members' Cup and were one of only two Second Division clubs to lift the trophy. The club's best performance in the FA Cup was reaching the semi-finals which they achieved on two occasions: once in 1926-27 and again in 2014-15. The club holds the record for the number of successive league wins at the start of a season, with a total of 13 wins at the start of the 1985–86 Third Division campaign and also the record for the number of points gained in a professional league season with 106 points in the 2005–06 Football League Championship campaign. Before going out of business in 1992, Aldershot were Reading's biggest rivals.[60][61] Aldershot were, geographically, the closest Football League club to Reading. Since Aldershot's exile, Reading's main local rivalries have been with Oxford United and Swindon Town. When the three teams had shared a division, their rivalry was referred to as the "Didcot Triangle". Reading play their home games at the Select Car Leasing Stadium.
Referee
Darren England.
Familiar Faces
Paul Ince (1989—95)
