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FA Cup semi-final
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Date: Sunday, 19 April Kick-off: 1600 BST
Coverage: Full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio Merseyside 95.8 FM; text commentary on BBC Sport website & mobiles


Gary Neville and Rafael da Silva have been passed fit for United, while Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick should recover from knocks in time to play.

Paul Scholes, Park Ji-sung and Carlos Tevez are among those likely to start.

Everton manager David Moyes must decide whether to risk striker Louis Saha, who has had a stomach virus.

On-loan striker Jo is cup-tied but Joseph Yobo and James Vaughan have recovered from injuries and are included in Moyes' squad.


Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak, Neville, Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic, Rafael, Fabio, O'Shea, Evans, Ronaldo, Anderson, Scholes, Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Park, Nani, Giggs, Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov, Macheda.

Everton (from): Howard, Hibbert, Lescott, Jagielka, Baines, Osman, Pienaar, Neville, Rodwell, Fellaini, Cahill, Yobo, Saha, Vaughan, Nash, Gosling, Jacobsen, Van der Meyde, Castillo, Baxter.






Man Utd's former Everton striker Wayne Rooney:

"I have no problem with the Everton fans' reaction. I understand they were upset when I left and with the way it happened.


"The stick I get when I am playing against them is just a bit of banter. I can still go out in Liverpool and get no hassle.

"The manager David Moyes has done a fantastic job to get Everton into the position they are in. They are nearly there as a club - all Everton seem to be lacking now is a trophy.

"We know how hungry they are and how much they want to win this trophy so we will have to be on our toes."





Everton manager David Moyes:

"I believe this club is very, very close to winning a trophy. There has not been one since 1995, and the one before was eight years previous.

"You walk around the corridors of Goodison Park and you see the photos on the wall of the heroes from the past. I want to see my players' pictures on the walls now, as the heroes of the present.

"This club has been waiting a long time for this, something they were used to a few years ago.

"There are not many youngsters who support Everton who have seen their club in too many semi-finals."





Everton defender Leighton Baines:

"We have got to believe that this tie gives us the chance of an upset. We fancy our chances.

"We have been scoring a lot of goals of late and United maybe have hit something of a dip at the moment in their form.

"So hopefully that will work in our favour. We have to get into their faces, we have to do that against a side as good as Manchester United.

"We have to put them under as much pressure as we can and make it difficult for them to play the game they want.

"Once we have done that it will give us the chance to start getting at them. But we must make it as tough as we can for them."



Match Facts

Everton and Manchester United will run out at Wembley 14 years after Paul Rideout scored the only goal to land Everton their fifth FA Cup. Only on this occasion it will be to qualify for the end of season showpiece in the 11th semi-final to be staged at the home of English football.

Everton have the formidable task of putting paid to Manchester United's quintuple dreams, and knocking out the most successful club in FA Cup history.

Between them these clubs have won the cup 16 times; United on a record 11 occasions.

Everton are making their first visit to the new Wembley; Manchester United were there on 1 March, beating Tottenham in the Carling Cup final in a penalty shoot-out, after a goalless 120 minutes.

In each of the last four seasons, the team halting Middlesbrough's run in the competition has gone on to reach, and then lose in the final. Everton knocked out the Teessiders in the quarter-finals.

This is Manchester United's 405th match in FA Cup history and Everton's 394th; United have won 219 and Everton 212.

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