{"id":301422,"date":"2026-02-16T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301422\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:04:07","slug":"fa-cup-fifth-round-draw-league-one-mansfield-host-arsenal-as-man-city-head-to-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301422\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup fifth-round draw: League One Mansfield host Arsenal as Man City head to Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">League One side Mansfield Town will host 14-time winners Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Stags defeated Premier League stragglers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c4g75x214glt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley 2-1<\/a> on Saturday afternoon, producing a remarkable second-half comeback at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Manchester City will visit Newcastle in one of two all-Premier League ties, in a repeat of one of this season&#8217;s League Cup semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Non-league Macclesfield could be in line to face a third top-flight opponent in a row &#8211; either the Silkmen or Brentford will head to West Ham in round five after Monday night&#8217;s tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunderland face a second successive away trip in the competition as they were drawn against Port Vale or Bristol City &#8211; that fourth-round tie was postponed until Tuesday, 3 March (19:45 GMT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyg877d2yqo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because of a waterlogged pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Championship promotion chasers Wrexham welcome eight-time winners Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The matches will be played across the weekend of 7-8 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League One side Mansfield Town will host 14-time winners Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round. The Stags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-301422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}