{"id":333105,"date":"2025-12-08T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333105\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:40:08","slug":"manchester-united-wrexham-get-tough-draw-in-fa-cup-3rd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333105\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United, Wrexham get tough draw in FA Cup 3rd round"},"content":{"rendered":"

FA Cup holders Crystal Palace<\/a> have been handed a trip to sixth-tier Macclesfield in the third round of this year’s competition, while both Manchester United<\/a> and Wrexham were drawn against Premier League<\/a> sides.<\/p>\n

Macclesfield, one of four non-league clubs remaining at the time the draw was made, currently sit 14th in National League North.<\/p>\n

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In their previous guise as Macclesfield Town, the Silkmen reached the fourth round of the competition in 2013, where they lost to Wigan.<\/p>\n

National League South side Weston-super-Mare will travel to League Two Grimsby, who had their own taste of cup glory earlier this season when they knocked Manchester United out of the League Cup.<\/p>\n

Boreham Wood, looking to replicate their stunning run to the fifth round three years ago, are at home to either Brackley or Burton.<\/p>\n

The draw threw up four all-Premier League ties, topped by Aston Villa’s trip to Tottenham, while Everton<\/a> face Sunderland<\/a>, Newcastle take on Bournemouth and Brighton travel to Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Premier League leaders Arsenal<\/a> face a trip to Fratton Park to face 2008 winners Portsmouth, while Wrexham have landed a high-profile home clash against Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> are at home to Barnsley, Manchester City<\/a> face League One Exeter, and there is a tasty-looking London derby between Charlton and Chelsea<\/a> at The Valley.<\/p>\n

All matches will be played around the weekend of Jan. 10-11, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FA Cup holders Crystal Palace have been handed a trip to sixth-tier Macclesfield in the third round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-333105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}