We get to travel to Sunderland’s Stadium of Light for the fourth round replay
So after the “proper” FA Cup game at the Cottage ended in a draw we get a Wednesday evening 17:45 kick off to see who will face Leeds in the next round.
Sunderland really gave it go and will be full of confidence that they can get a result at their place?
It was an uncharacteristic mistake by Issa Diop that allowed Sunderland to take a sixth minute lead, however Tom Cairney came to the rescue with a wonderful bit of skill weaving his way past a couple of defenders before scoring past the very impressive Patterson who had an outstanding game.
15 year old Christopher Rigg thought, as did the travelling Sunderland fans, that he had scored the winner, and made FA Cup history, I think he would have been the youngest ever FA Cup scorer?, but unfortunately for the lad and Sunderland the goal was ruled out as he was offside.
More bad luck for Sunderland, Ross Stewart was carried off with an ankle problem, his 10 goals in 13 games will be missed?
Assuming the our two new players can’t feature as they weren’t available for the first game and as Marco Silva has said that he wants to take the FA Cup seriously my team would be…
COYW’s
come on over to the forum and join in the conversation…
https://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?board=36.0
