FA Cup Round-Up: Drama over the weekend

Tomiwa Babalola

It was a weekend of drama in the FA Cup fourth round games played all over the United Kingdom with the account of David and Goliath repeating itself.

It all started with a three-time champions league champions, Manchester United that could not pass through Cambridge of Friday night.

The Louis van Gaal side actually started the season struggling, but with some quality spendings and acquisition during the summer transfer window which brought in the likes of Angel Di Maria, Radamel Falcao, Marcos Rojo and others have given the club a push to top four on the league strandings.

But they managed a goalless draw with lower division club, which has now set-up a rematch between the two sides at the Old Trafford.

Unfortunately for the English Premier League leaders, Chelsea, as they got served without a clue of what really happened.

Chelsea went up 2-0 in the first half of the game but it seems winners are not made at half time as the visitors struck four times to dump the Blues out of the championship.

Earlier in the season, Jose Mourinho, Cesc Fabregas, Thibaut Coutious had said that the EPL leaders are on-course to winning quadruple this season.

May be dreams don't come through any more because the Mou-led side have been dumbed out of FA Cup, and also have a 50-50 chance of moving to the next round of the Capital One cup against Liverpool in the second leg, after the first leg ended 1-1.

Manchester City on the other end had no clue as to what happened to them at the Ethiad stadium as they also fell gallantly to another championship side, Middlesbrough 0-2.

This now makes it two losses on a role for the EPL champions, who lost to Arsenal 0-2 in the topflight previous weekend.

Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Swansea all lost out of the championship to lower division teams, leaving Manchester United and Liverpool to try again with a rematch and Arsenal and Crystal Palace, that just got a new coach through to the next face of the FA Cup.

Below is the result of the games played over the weekend.

Cambridge United

0 - 0

Manchester United

January 24

FT

Blackburn Rovers

3 - 1

Swansea City

FT

Birmingham City

1 - 2

West Bromwich Albion

FT

Cardiff City

1 - 2

Reading

FT

Chelsea

2 - 4

Bradford City

FT

Derby County

2 - 0

Chesterfield

FT

Manchester City

0 - 2

Middlesbrough

FT

Preston North End

1 - 1

Sheffield United

FT

Southampton

2 - 3

Crystal Palace

FT

Sunderland

0 - 0

Fulham

FT

Tottenham Hotspur

1 - 2

Leicester City

FT

Liverpool

0 - 0

Bolton Wanderers