Manchester United's FA Cup 4th Round Facts

Manchester United's quest to win the Emirates FA Cup continues on Friday night with a fourth-round trip to the East Midlands to face Derby County.

As we did in the previous round, ManUtd.com selects 10 pieces of trivia about the club's past exploits at this stage of the competition...

Both sides of the story
Michael Owen scored both for and against United in the FA Cup fourth round. As an opponent, he netted for Liverpool in the famous 1999 clash at Old Trafford and it looked like being the winning goal until Dwight Yorke and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer dramatically turned the tie around in the closing minutes. Some 12 years later, he hit the back of Southampton's net as a United player.

Knocked out after victory
United beat Preston North End 1-0 at home (Maine Road) in January 1946 but were still knocked out by the Lancashire club. Why? It was because the FA Cup was played over two legs for the only time in its history to compensate for the lack of games; league fixtures were yet to resume following World War II. Preston won the return match 3-1 at Deepdale, with Jimmy Hanlon scoring in both clashes for the Reds.

Blooming Flowers
The first-ever penalty shoot-out in the FA Cup between two top-flight teams ended with Southampton defeating the Reds 4-2 on spot-kicks in a fourth-round replay at Old Trafford in 1992. Neil Webb fired over and Ryan Giggs, despite confidently juggling the ball towards the spot, had his effort kept out by future England goalkeeper Tim Flowers, who then sprinted down the field in jubilation. A young Alan Shearer led the line for the Saints and scored their second goal in an entertaining 2-2 draw.

Debut makers
Phil Neville made his first-team bow in a 5-2 win over Wrexham in 1995, the game after Eric Cantona's incident with a supporter at Selhurst Park. The full-back, who had just turned 18, impressed and came extremely close to scoring when hitting both posts with a shot. Danish goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard was also given his United debut in the FA Cup fourth round, in the aforementioned tie when Owen scored at Southampton in 2011.

Irons Hammered
United's record win in the fourth round is a 6-0 slaughter of West Ham at Old Trafford in 2003 with Ryan Giggs and Ruud van Nistelrooy both scoring doubles. It was sweet revenge for the exit at the same stage two years earlier, when Paolo Di Canio ignored Fabien Barthez's gamesmanship to slot in the winner.

Owls prey on Reds
The highest number of goals in a fourth-round tie involving United came at Old Trafford in 1961, when Sheffield Wednesday won 7-2 in a replay following a 1-1 draw at Hillsborough. Mark Pearson scored a fourth-minute equaliser but the Reds were overrun and Keith Ellis claimed a hat-trick. Coincidentally, the club's only other 7-2 defeat in any competition was also against the Owls, at Hillsborough in 1929. The 1961 thrashing was the last time United conceded as many goals in a single game but not the record loss at Old Trafford as Newcastle won 7-1 in a league game back in 1927.

Law unto himself
As in the third round, Denis Law was the last man to score a hat-trick for the Reds at this stage of the competition. The legendary marksman grabbed three of the goals in a 4-1 triumph over Bristol Rovers for the holders in 1964. Stan Pearson had previously scored a fourth-round treble in the 4-0 drubbing of Leeds United in 1951.

Bull's eye
En route to lifting the trophy in 1990, United's fourth-round assignment was at Hereford United's Edgar Street. A "quagmire" of a pitch was not helped by the appearance of the club's mascot, a bull, being paraded before kick-off and many expected the tie to be postponed. Thankfully, Alex Ferguson's side squeezed through when Mike Duxbury drove through the mud to tee up Clayton Blackmore's late winner. "We played on a quagmire of a pitch," said Ferguson. "There was an incredible extravaganza with marching bands and a big bull - the Hereford emblem - out on the pitch. It was so wet that the car park was flooded and some cars were marooned for days."

Goalscorers XI - almost
Had Peter Schmeichel's remarkable late goal in a replay at Selhurst Park been allowed to stand against Wimbledon in 1997 (it was disallowed for offside), then a whole XI could have been formed from members of the brilliant Double-winning squad who scored in the fourth round for the Reds. Paul Parker, Steve Bruce, Roy Keane, Denis Irwin, Andrei Kanchelskis, Bryan Robson, Brian McClair, Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona and Mark Hughes all netted at this stage of the FA Cup.

Leading scorers
Jack Rowley and Denis Law have scored seven times in the FA Cup fourth round for United, one more than Ryan Giggs. Current skipper Wayne Rooney is on five, as is Stan Pearson.