{"id":673,"date":"2026-03-09T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=673"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:00:23","slug":"fa-cup-quarter-final-draw-man-city-face-liverpool-chelsea-vs-port-vale-and-arsenal-take-on-southampton-football-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup quarter-final draw: Man City face Liverpool, Chelsea vs Port Vale and Arsenal take on Southampton | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Manchester City have been drawn against Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals, while Chelsea will host League One side Port Vale after they knocked out Sunderland in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p>City&#8217;s Premier League title rivals Arsenal go to Southampton, currently eighth in the Championship, with Leeds United facing the winner of Monday night&#8217;s tie beween West Ham and Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup quarter-final ties will be played on the weekend of April 4\/5.<\/p>\n<p>It is another favourable draw for record 14-time winners Arsenal, who are yet to play Premier League opposition in this season&#8217;s FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They knocked out Mansfield and Wigan, who are both in League One, after beating struggling Championship side Portsmouth in the third round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-factbox\" data-testid=\"article-factbox\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text-wrapper\">\n<p><h4 class=\"sdc-article-factbox__title\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-title\">Arsenal&#8217;s cup draws this season<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sdc-article-factbox__list\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-list\">\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-list-item\">FA Cup: Portsmouth (A), Wigan (H), Mansfield (A), Southampton (A)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-list-item\">Carabao Cup: Port Vale (A), Brighton (H), Crystal Palace (H), Chelsea (A and H)<\/li>\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-list-item\">Champions League: Athletic Bilbao (A), Olympiakos (H), Atletico Madrid (H), Slavia Prague (A), Bayern Munich (H), Club Brugge (A), Inter Milan (A), Kairat Almaty (H), Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting CP or Bodo\/Glimt*<\/li>\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-list-item\">*Should they progress to Champions League quarter-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is no let up for City, who trail Premier League leaders Arsenal by seven points with a game in hand, after they won at Newcastle in the previous round.<\/p>\n<p>Port Vale were the giantkillers of the fifth round, eliminating Premier League side Sunderland in a 1-0 win, and have been rewarded with an even tougher game &#8211; a trip to Club World Cup champions Chelsea.<\/p>\n<h3>FA Cup quarter-final draw in full<\/h3>\n<p><em>Ties to take place across the weekend of April 4\/5<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Southampton vs Arsenal <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea vs Port Vale<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Man City vs Liverpool<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>West Ham or Brentford vs Leeds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key dates for the 2025\/26 FA Cup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Saturday\/Sunday April 4\/5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Saturday April 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final: <\/strong>Saturday May 16<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have been drawn against Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals, while Chelsea will host League One side Port Vale after they knocked out Sunderland in the fifth round. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}