Holders Arsenal draw Burnley in FA Cup fourth round

Crystal Palace tackle Stoke in a rare all-Premier League tie while Oxford, who knocked Swansea out on Sunday, must wait to discover if they will host their League Two rivals Newport, or Blackburn.

There are no real standout ties in the FA Cup fourth round draw which was made this evening.

The FA Cup competition this year will see 35 teams from the Super League, Premier League and FAM League.

Liverpool will be heading to Exeter without an obvious centre back for their FA Cup clash on Friday. The draw has been pretty favourable for the Gunners without being against a club so far down the lower leagues that we can take it for granted.

“We are all in love with the FA Cup, but unfortunately priorities change in football and our priority is the Premier League”.

Championship outfit MK Dons would be more accomplished opponents for Chelsea and their 4-0 Capital One Cup demolition of Manchester United in August 2014 will not have escaped the Blues’ attention.

It’s obviously good marketing practice to look at engagement levels with key audiences, particularly when talking about your first branding of the FA Cup, which will be known as the Emirates FA Cup for the next three years.

The Reds won the only previous FA Cup meeting between these two, winning 3-1 at Anfield in a fourth-round tie in January 1950.

This means last year’s FA Cup runners-up Kelantan will not be placed as a seeded team and their position in the second round is also via the drawing process.

However, only four Championship sides have conceded less than 15th-placed North End, and Simon Grayson’s men will come into the tie with confidence after successive victories against Hull City and Rotherham United in England’s second tier.

Non-league Eastleigh, the lowest-ranked team left in the draw, will be rewarded with a home match against Leeds if it beats Bolton in a replay next week.

For their part, Wolves haven’t won away in the FA Cup since 2010, and their likely focus on their league campaign and efforts to return to EPL glory could have them playing a weakened side in this match.