Birmingham City v Sheffield Wednesday (3-0)
A simple win for Birmingham helped by some poor defending. Martins got his 1st goal for the club after skipping past a few weak tackles then easily slotted the ball past the keeper. Beausejour and Murphy scored the others. A game they will be happy to have won so comfortably but there was no real competition.
Stoke City v Brighton (3-0)
All the goals in this match came in the first half and all from headers. Carew, Walters and Shawcross scoring them. Stoke will not have been happy to see Matthew Etherington limping off at the end of the first half with a hamstring injury. He has only just come back from a period out with the same injury and perhaps the club rushed him back too quickly. Brighton created a few more opportunities in the second half but none that really troubled Sorensen. An easy match for Stoke to put them into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Manchester United v Crawley Town (1-0)
Manchester United took this match as an opportunity for some of their younger players to have a chance. I have to admit I was hoping a certain Joshua King on the bench would play some part as I had seen him play a few minutes in the Carling Cup and felt he had some real talent. Unfortunately he never came on. Darren Gibson was the player who showed the most quality in this match. His passing was amazing and he also provided the cross for Wes Brown's goal. Crawley Town were very much part of the game and came very close on multiple occasions to getting an equaliser in the second half. United brought on Smalling late in the game to tighten things up at the back and he again showed why they paid the big bucks for him. A hard fought match that went on till the final whistle.
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