Raya’s attempt to save this is also quite funny:

This is actually hilarious:

Again, United overperformed away from home against one of the nation’s top sides. They’re 13th in the league at the moment: 11th best against top-half teams (in 11 games) and 14th-best against bottom-half teams (in nine games). Six of their next eight league fixtures are against teams in the bottom half, and the other two against the sides currently ninth and 10th.

Some analysis from ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston:

For Arsenal to lose two cup games at home, in such quick succession, is devastating. The heart has gone out of this team. The absence of Saka is not any kind of sufficient explanation or justification. I am a great believer that managers need to be given time and consistent support. But I cannot see any kind of strategy from Arteta and his colleagues that would transform us into trophy winners from our current status as honourable runners up

Ruben Amorim has a chat:

We had to compete no matter what, and we competed today. They had more chances but I think we deserved the win, the way we played, the way we fought. It was really tough, from the beginning we didn’t have the ball too much but we controlled without the ball. Now we have to rest the players, I’m already thinking about the next game. They’re really tired.

Sometimes we have the feeling that everything in the end is going to be OK. I felt that from the beginning of the second half, and I think also the Arsenal team felt that today is not their day. I’m really pleased for the way we controlled the game without the ball, set pieces we were really strong. We deserved to pass through this round because we suffered all together and we worked really hard.

The FA Cup fourth-round draw in full:

• Manchester United v Leicester

• Leeds v Millwall or Dagenham

• Brighton v Chelsea

• Preston or Charlton v Wycombe

• Exeter v Nottingham Forest

• Coventry v Ipswich

• Blackburn v Wolves

• Mansfield or Wigan v Fulham

• Birmingham v Newcastle

• Plymouth v Liverpool

• Everton v Bournemouth

• Aston Villa v Tottenham

• Southampton or Swansea v Burnley

• Leyton Orient or Derby v Manchester City

• Doncaster v Crystal Palace

• Stoke v Cardiff

Ties to be played from February 7-10.

An excellent fourth-round draw has concluded, and I’ll bring you the line-up shortly. First, a couple of match reports for you. Louise Taylor saw Newcastle beat Bromley:

During five years on Newcastle’s payroll Andy Woodman’s apparently endless supply of jokes prompted plenty of training ground laughter but club insiders knew better than to underestimate their goalkeeping coach.

That judgement was vindicated as, a decade after leaving Tyneside, Woodman returned as Bromley’s manager. Ultimately the team currently 12th in League Two could not prevent their hosts from recording an eighth straight victory in all competitions but, for quite a while, Woodman’s meticulously organised players frustrated Eddie Howe’s Premier League high-flyers.

Much more here:

And Ed Aarons saw Crystal Palace edge past Stockport:

For Crystal Palace supporters of a certain vintage, any meeting with Stockport is bound to bring back fond memories of Dougie Freedman’s heroics in 2001. More than two decades on from his late goal that ensured Palace avoided relegation to the third tier on the final day of the season and having spent most of the intervening period travelling in different directions, only an early strike from Eberechi Eze could separate Dave Challinor’s side from their Premier League opponents.

Oliver Glasner was grateful that Palace’s stand-in goalkeeper Matt Turner – who stepped in after a sickness bug ruled out Dean Henderson – stood firm in the second half as Stockport sniffed the opportunity of an upset.

Much more here:

“Sterling hasn’t been fun to watch for anyone my friend,” writes Niall Fogarty. “He is simply not an intelligent footballer. His contribution to this game has been as an outlet for United to breathe a little sigh of relief as they know next to nothing will come from him.” Ultimately this was indeed the case, but I think the only Arsenal players who really challenged United’s defence were Sterling, Odegaard and Rice. Havertz was obviously terrible, and Trossard poor once he came on.

Manchester United are the first name out of the hat plastic drum in the fourth-round draw, and they’ll play Leicester at home!

The fourth-round draw is about to happen and we’ve got a separate liveblog for that:

Altay Bayindir and Bruno Fernandes have a quick chat. Starting with the United captain:

Obviously, the circumstances of the game, we suffered a lot and sacrificed a lot as a team, and at the end you get this. It’s tough to be second goalkeeper, he came here to play. Whenever he gets his chance he’s top-class for us. He truly deserved this moment.

Bayindir, the man of the match, says all the right things:

I just helped my team. I’m working every team. I want to help this great team. Just I want to make everyone happy for this great club. If you’re not playing, it doesn’t matter. If you’re a Manchester United player you have to be ready always. Every day [Amorim} is talking with us and trying to help us. We’re trusting him, he’s trusting us, we’re fighting together.

Bruno Fernandes is going to start the shootout himself. Right, let’s do this.

United will also take the first penalty. Arsenal’s final xG tally was 8.23, with one goal to show for it.

Bruno Fernandes wins the coin toss, and the penalties will be taken at the United end.

In the end, the second half and extra time have almost completely expunged my memory of a very poor opening half and thus this goes down as a minor thriller. Arsenal should have won it at a canter, but Kai Havertz has completely forgotten how to score goals, Altay Bayindir is wearing his lucky gloves, and now it’s anyone’s tie.

120+1 mins: There’ll be just one minute of stoppage time, and Arsenal have won a corner 20 seconds into it.

120 mins: … which Bayindir boots down the left and out of touch, obviously.

119 mins: Another Arsenal cross is headed clear, and this time the referee blows for a free-kick, Havertz having bundled into Mazraoui.

118 mins: Odegaard sends yet another left-footed cross into the area from the right, but it’s just too high for Havertz, who top-of-the-heads it out of play.

117 mins: … which Bayindir boots down the left and out of touch, obviously.

116 mins: It’s headed clear. Arsenal win a throw-in and Sterling runs into the penalty area again, but he knocks the ball a bit too far. Goal kick.

116 mins: Another Arsenal corner, after Malacia heads Rice’s cross behind.

24 mins: Fernandes brings Sterling down and concedes a free-kick on the right. It’s taken short and Sterling runs into the area, but Malacia gets in his way and eventually wins a free-kick of his own. The BBC inform us that in final-third passes Arsenal lead 212-38.

113 mins: He is going off, though! Kieran Tierney is on. Jorginho looks to be feeling a groin muscle as he left the field.

112 mins: The physio is on, and working on Jorginho, who is on his feet and presumably not likely to go off, with penalties on the horizon.

111 mins: This time United keep it and put a decent attack together, but at the end of it Amad heads wide.

110 mins: Sterling is given offside (wrongly, I think) in United’s penalty area, giving Bayindir another chance to hit a long ball down the left.

108 mins: Arsenal win their 10th corner. It’s played short, popped around a bit, and eventually Martinelli’s looping header drops to Bayindir.

106 mins: United nearly score! Zirkzee finds Amad with an excellent pass, who sends it back again with another fine pass. He tries to beat Raya at the far post but the shot is deflected towards the near, only for the keeper to fingertip it wide!

106 mins: Play has restarted!

Today’s other FA Cup scores, while I’ve got a moment:

• Hull 1-1 Doncaster (Doncaster won 5-4 on penalties)

• Tamworth 0-3 Tottenham (after extra time)

• Crystal Palace 1-0 Stockport County

• Ipswich Town 3-0 Bristol Rovers

• Newcastle 3-1 Bromley

And currently at half-time:

• Southampton 2-0 Swandea

105+1 mins: There’ll be two minutes of Maguire-going-off-time at the end of this half.

105 mins: Bayindir has presumably been instructed to boot his goal-kicks high down the left, because that’s where they’ve all gone, but the majority of them have gone straight out for a throw-in and here’s another one.

104 mins: And another substitution. Maguire leaves the field (very, very slowly) and Leny Yoro enters it.

103 mins: Trossard has a shooting chance from just outside the area, but he skews it high and wide.

103 mins: Fernandes produces the back-pass of the match, probably the back-pass of the round, on the volley from midway into Arsenal’s half. A back-pass of real ambition.

101 mins: And how has that not gone in?!??"! Jorginho’s excellent pass finds Havertz, who taps inside towards Trossard and, beyond him, Rice, but De Ligt gets there first and, from two yards, manages not to find his own net!

100 mins: Another substitution. Thomas Partey is on, and Jurrien Timber is off.

98 mins: Sterling has been the (most fun) man of the match. He just wants to run at defenders, quickly, and it’s great entertainment (if not always hugely impactful).

97 mins: Rice lifts a corner towards the far post, where it’s headed behind for another one.

95 mins: Then Arsenal win a free-kick and lift it into the area, where Havertz heads it weakly towards goal.

94 mins: Blocked! The ball falls to Rice in space and inside the area, but De Ligt throws himself in the way of the shot.

93 mins: Jorginho’s pass runs just beyond Havertz.

91 mins: United start the third half.

Some changes to report: Arsenal have brought Leandro Trossard on for Myles Lewis-Skelly. United have replaced Ugarte with Tyrell Malacia. Extra time imminent.

90+5 mins: Zirkzee and Amad lead a United break, but the Dutchman delays his pass a moment too long (and overhits it slightly) and that’s the end of that.

90+4 mins: And another great save! Rice is found on the left, and his low shot across goal is on its way in until Bayindir gets fingertips to it!

90+3 mins: The ball breaks on the left and Havertz picks out Timber, central, in space and 30 yards out. Instead of passing onwards to Sterling he has a rubbish shot.

90+2 mins: A good cross from the left. No Arsenal player wants to win it, but Mazraoui has to turn it behind.

90+1 mins: There will be seven minutes of stoppage time! They start with a United free kick, lifted into the penalty area, but Maguire’s header back into the mixer is caught by Raya.

88 mins: How is that not in the net? Odegaard lifts another ball in from the right – almost the same ball to the one that found Rice a few minutes ago. This one hits Havertz and drops in front of him, with the goal gaping … and somehow he lifts the ball over it!

87 mins: Some good work from Zirkzee in his own half, who eventually passes to Amad on the right and suddenly United are breaking with possibilities – principally Collyer, sprinting beyond the Arsenal defence, but Amad doesn’t spot him and the opportunity is lost..

85 mins: The sense of chaos has lifted a bit, and we’re back to Arsenal trying to work a way through a well-organised defence. They need to just give it to Sterling, who’s absolutely on one.

82 mins: The ball falls to Maguire, who ’ave-its it right into touch with no messing.

80 mins: A triple change for United. Someone else is going to perform the thankless-running-around-on-their-own-in-attack role for a while, with Garnacho, Mainoo and Hojland coming off and Zirkzee, Collyer and Amad coming on.

78 mins: “It was definitely a penalty,” writes Joe Surtees. “Maguire threw out his left arm and left leg to impede the Arsenal player, and all VAR would have done is confirm that. It would also have slowed everything down hugely and taken all the heat and excitement out of a fantastic game.” Well it’s a game of opinions and you’re welcome to yours, but having seen a couple of replays now I’d still call it a dive.

76 mins: Another great save! Odegaard’s cross finds Rice on the edge of the six-yard box, completely unmarked, but his header is too close to Bayindir, who flings out a hand and turns it over the bar!

73 mins: Declan Rice comes on for Merino. The BBC have concluded that Gabriel, Havertz and Maguire were all booked for their parts in that post-penalty-decision chaos. It was Maguire was standing nearest Havertz when he dived, and he seemed particularly furious about it.

71 mins: At the end of which someone is booked. It’s still a penalty. Odegaard is going to take it.

71 mins: Handbags! United are furious about that decision and their players make their feelings known. Garnacho and Havertz go head-to-head for a few moments, which ends when Havertz dives again.

66 mins: An excellent run from Sterling, down the right and cutting into the penalty area. His pull-back ends up with, I think, Merino, and a deflection means that instead of just going wide his shot goes further wide.

65 mins: Suddenly and from nowhere, chaos. In between the red card and the goal, a yellow is waved at someone on the United bench. Presumably they know who they are, but I certainly don’t.

60 mins: Dalot’s corner looked to be on its way in, but Raya does well to punch it away while falling backwards, and the referee blows for one of about half a dozen fouls in the area.

59 mins: Arsenal have an overload in attack but they don’t seem to know what to do with it and a few seconds later United have the ball in their penalty area and, from that, a corner.

57 mins: Now Mainoo goes into the book for kicking the ball away (about a yard away, but as Arsenal know better than most sometimes that’s enough).

56 mins: I’m not sure where the last few minutes have come from, but as well as the goal and the Havertz chance the ball dropped to Sterling, 12 yards out to the right of goal, who half-volleyed embarrassingly in the wrong direction, and Garnacho got into a good crossing position on the right but could keep the ball on the pitch.

55 mins: What a miss from Havertz! Maguire miscues a header to Martinelli, who sees the German in a better position just to his right and prods the ball his way, but he scoops high and wide!

53 mins: Garnacho got a bit lucky, first that the ball deflected to him and then that Gabriel falls over as he tries to recover. But from there it was excellent, as he ran to the edge of the area, drew a defender and played to Fernandes rather than Hojland, both on his left. The captain’s first-time finish was spectacularly good.

51 mins: After a lot of preparation and general pondering Martinelli takes it, and Maguire heads away.

49 mins: Another booking for United, after Dalot takes out Lewis-Skelly on the left. A free-kick for Arsenal, then. Talking of which, some emails! “Watching Arsenal is like watching rugby union - all stoppages and waiting while lads set up for set-piece routines. I’m not sure even Arsenal fans can enjoy that,” writes Declan O’Brien. “Is it just me or is this whole Arsenal ‘we take set pieces really seriously so we’re going to spend about two minutes fannying about every time we get one’ routine unutterably tedious?” writes Stephen McCrossan.

46 mins: Arsenal start the second half. They play back to Raya, who falls over in kicking the ball but manages to find touch.

The players are back out for the second half, and the good news for Arsenal is that Odegaard is fine to continue.

Halftimely score update: Also at the midway point currently:

Ipswich Town 3-0 Bristol Rovers
Newcastle United 1-1 Bromley

And already just into the second half:

Crystal Palace 1-0 Stockport County

“I don’t know if it’s because of the comedown following near-upset by Tamworth, or because it was a rubbish half, but I’ve been unable to focus on this game,” writes Kári Tulinius. “Other than the disallowed goal and white Arsenal shirts, I can’t remember a thing that’s happened so far.” Come on, that’s not fair: one team’s captain was booked for repeatedly throwing his shoe around.

An intriguing first half rather than a hugely entertaining one. Like last week United look a well-coached team, which is an advance. Their shape certainly suggests they know they are the inferior one, but Arsenal haven’t shown the wit to break them down. United have done a fair bit of fouling and only won one yellow card as a result (plus one for dissent), but perhaps the referee might put a stop to this in the second half and make their lives more difficult. United had both of the shots on target in the first half, but they were from distance and gave Raya two easy saves – the game has been essentially chanceless, but for the offside goal.

45+5 mins: Odegaard goes down off the ball, stays there for 20 seconds or so, then gets up without assistance.

45+3 mins: Odegaard eventually sends the free-kick over both wall and goal.

45+2 mins: Martinez connects with Odegaard’s ankle and concedes a free kick. He’s already on a booking, and several Arsenal player remind the referee about it. United move into an 11-3 lead on fouls conceded.

45+1 mins: Into stoppage time, of which there’ll be around five minutes.

43 mins: Another Arsenal corner, which means two minutes of preparations and a further delay while the referee makes sure people aren’t misbehaving in the penalty area, but again United deal with it.

40 mins: That was surely a foul, and Jesus injured himself doing it. After a bit of treatment he’s taken off on a stretcher, and Raheem Sterling replaces him.

38 mins: Nearly a chance for United! A bit of a snarl-up on the right ends with Mazraoui running free and the referee waving play on. Dalot is sprinting into all sorts of space on the left but he tries to pull back to Fernandes, whose heels are clipped by Jesus just before the ball gets there. Again the referee waves play on, though, and a furious Fernandes takes off a boot and flings it to the turf in fury, and then goes and fetches it, and then flings it to the turf again, all of which means he ends up getting booked.

35 mins: United get a chance to break now, but Garnacho also has no support so decides to have a shot from an unlikely distance and angle, which Raya collects.

33 mins: Arsenal keep the ball for ages but can’t find a way through, over, under or past the United defence, so they play it back to Raya – and he can, with a long ball that picks out Martinelli running into space, but he’s caught up with and the ball is cleared before he can bring it under control.

30 mins: Martinez is booked, apparently for an elbow on Jesus, though Jesus goes down clutching a knee so who knows? “Don’t the rules state that an offside player CAN play the ball legally if it reaches him after a deliberate attempt by the defender to cut out the pass and deflects it?” asks Amin Sikander. Well, the law is this:

A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent.

But a deflection is not a deliberate action, so no dice.

28 mins: Eventually the corner is taken, and Mazraoui wins the header.

27 mins: A bit of a delay while Raya gets some physio treatment, for what looks most likely to be a contact lens-related issue, ahead of an Arsenal corner.

25 mins: Arsenal are absolutely rubbish on the counter-attack. They get the chance to break and Odegaard releases Jesus on the right, but as he looks up there’s only Havertz in the middle, no other white shirts anywhere remotely useful, and a ninth defender is just dropping into position.

24 mins: United’s longest, best and pretty much only extended period of possession ends with Mainoo shooting from 22 yards or so, but without either the power or the accuracy required to beat David Raya.

20 mins: Any world in which that is onside is a horrible, unjust, miserable world.

18 mins: Arsenal have a goal disallowed! Martinelli is miles offside when the ball is played through to him, but it deflects off Maguire and Arsenal have a go at arguing that made it a new phase but the officials are having none of it and VAR is having the weekend off.

17 mins: Timber plays the ball through to Havertz, who seems to have spent most of the match in an offside position, and is there again here.

14 mins: Another Arsenal free-kick, again on the left flank but from a deeper position this time. No offside trap on this occasion, but Gabriel’s header sails wide.

11 mins: Garnacho goes for a sliding tackle on Gabriel, so poorly timed that by the time Gabriel gets anywhere near him he’s basically stopped moving. It doesn’t stop Gabriel, sniffing a yellow card, screaming loudly at what little contact there was before rolling around for a while. Andy Madley absolutely rightly gives just a free kick, and Gabriel instantly hops up again.

11 mins: For the second time already, Bayandir boots a goal kick into touch.

10 mins: Arsenal win a free-kick, from which United catch almost their entire team offside. “How are Arsenal allowed to play in shirts with no readable numbers on their backs?” demands Louise. Their shirts are spectactularly unhelpful, it must be said. They do have numbers on their backs, but only their outlines and on my screen at least they are only visible in close-up.

8 mins: Arsenal are absolutely hogging possession, but United seem to know what they’re doing in defence, starting with putting loads of people in it.

5 mins: A lovely pass from Odegaard to Jesus, running beyond the defence on the right, but the Brazilian’s cross isn’t great, and Bayindir gets an easy, early touch.

3 mins: Much of the first few minutes have been spent with Arsenal trying and failing to navigate a way through a strong United press.

2 mins: Arsenal are in the all-white kit they have worn for their last few third-round fixtures, part of their “no more red” campaign. “No More Red was launched in January 2022 to support our long-standing work to help keep young people safe from knife crime and youth violence,” the club say. “The white shirts will never be sold commercially, and instead are awarded to volunteers who give their time and skills to our charitable partners.”

1 min: Peeeeeeep! United have kicked off!

This game is about to begin, under slate-grey London skies. United will kick off.

A shock! Doncaster Rovers, seventh in League Two, have knocked out Championship struggler Hull on penalties, away from home, after a 1-1 draw.

Spurs take a 2-0 lead, as at the Emirates Stadium the players gather in the tunnel.

Pre-match reading: Ed Aarons wrote a thing about Arsenal’s approach to this season’s FA Cup:

“Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exhorbitant [sic] transfer fees need not apply.”

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the legendary Herbert Chapman’s appointment by Arsenal after the chairman, Sir Henry Norris, posted an advertisement in the Athletic News as they searched for a new manager. Times may have changed but the message must sound very familiar to Mikel Arteta.

Much more here:

“Can we put the kick off of this back half an hour to watch the spurs penalties?” asks Ian Sargeant on email. Sadly/happily/whatever Tottenham are now beating Tamworth 1-0, courtesy of an extra-time own-goal. Fifteen minutes to go there, John Brewin still typing furiously:

Both teams will have half an eye on a midweek round of Premier League fixtures, and Arsenal on Wednesday’s derby against Tottenham, the third of five successive home games in all competitions. United have an extra day to prepare for the visit of Southampton.

Mikel Arteta says Riccardo Califouri “had a light problem yesterday in training”, hence his absence this afternoon. “We thought about the best possible line-up, and we wanted to try and be better than Manchester United. We have a lot of games, and it is going to be an interesting week. Bearing this in mind, we believe this is the best squad to start.”

John Brewin is watching the ongoing Tamworth v Tottenham tie, now with just a couple of minutes, some stoppage time and potentially extra time to play, and still 0-0!

Ruben Amorim says Amad has been rested after suffering “a small issue during the week”, making this “a good opportunity to see Garnacho start”.