If Everton and Watford advance, the final will be a rematch of the 1984 game when the Merseyside club lifted the cup with a 2-0 win.
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Memphis Depay of Manchester United and James Tomkins of West Ham United compete for the ball during the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and West Ham United at Old Trafford on December 5, 2015 in Manchester, England.
The teams drew 1-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday with the winners of the replay moving into the semi-finals at Wembley.
The Dutchman said: “I think Fellaini played a good match again”.
“He’ll be disappointed”, Scholes told BT Sport afterwards. “We are still in three competitions”. However, arch-rivals Liverpool have made that a hard prospect with a 2-0 victory in the first leg of their round of 16 clash.
“We can’t afford any slip-ups on Thursday”.
Arsenal played a full-strength lineup – an indication of Wenger’s priorities ahead of the Barcelona game – but an attack featuring Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud struggled to cause Watford’s defense many problems before a late flurry of chances.
“My colleague Slaven [Bilic] said the same, it was a fantastic match between two good sides and I am very happy that my team showed their spirit after a nasty week”.
Sullivan makes a salient point about the hopes and expectations at West Ham now which are a world away from the negative mindset towards the end of Sam Allardyce’s tenure.
But it would be unsafe, suicidal, if we approach the game like “they are playing badly, we are playing well, and we are going to cruise it”.
And that was the nature of the play in an event-free first half where both sides, neighbouring each other in the Premier League parried and jostled without much commitment or penetration.
“We looked at the videos, et cetera, but only in our normal way”.
“We talk a lot about starting games strong and more often than not we’ve done that this season”. It was just recovery. It was about getting our heads right very quickly and now we turn out attention back to Liverpool.
“I’ve heard there was no contact and, to be fair, it should have been another yellow card”, he said. “Credit to Watford, they created few chances but took them all”.
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“It’s not impossible. We know how crucial that first goal is going to be”.
