{"id":399654,"date":"2026-01-08T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:49:08","slug":"manchester-united-ask-fletcher-to-coach-in-fa-cup-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399654\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United ask Fletcher to coach in FA Cup on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darren Fletcher said he will be on the touchline for Manchester United<\/a>‘s FA Cup tie against Brighton on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The former United midfielder, who was coaching the club’s U18 side before taking on the interim manager job, was in charge for the 2-2<\/a> draw with Burnley<\/a> on Wednesday following Ruben Amorim’s dismissal as head coach.<\/p>\n

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The club has spoken to candidates, including Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick, about becoming the interim boss until the summer. A final decision is yet to be made and Fletcher will keep the job for at least one more game.<\/p>\n

“They’ve informed me they’d like to take the team for Sunday,” Fletcher told a news conference at Turf Moor. “There was a feeling that might have been the case from Monday, but we wanted to focus on Burnley.<\/p>\n

“But yeah, I’m tasked with leading the team on Sunday, so all my focus and energy goes to that now.”<\/p>\n

United came back from a goal down against Burnley to lead 2-1 thanks to two strikes from Benjamin Sesko<\/a> before being pegged back.<\/p>\n

“They put in a performance that should win the match,” Fletcher said. “We created a lot of chances, had 30 shots, goal-line clearances, a disallowed goal.<\/p>\n

“If you look at it in those terms, we should win the match.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t perfect; we started slow,” he said. “We scored two fantastic goals. Still lots to work on, but I was really pleased with their efforts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Fletcher said he will be on the touchline for Manchester United‘s FA Cup tie against Brighton on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-399654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}