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Manchester United Ladies will tackle Wolverhampton Wanderers within the fifth spherical of the FA Cup.
The present holders needed to work laborious out however ultimately crushed West Bromwich Albion final Saturday night.
The Pink Devils got here out on high 7-0 with Rachel Williams bagging a hat trick and Ella Toone scoring her first aim of the season.
The club’s official website reviews that United will journey to face Wolves on the weekend starting the eighth February, with the official date and time but to be finalised.
“Subsequent month’s match can be our girls’s staff’s first-ever aggressive assembly with the Wanderers,” the report notes.
Like final spherical’s opponents West Brom, Wolves play their league soccer within the third tier of the FA Ladies’s Nationwide League Northern Premier Division.
The Black Nation facet are properly positioned within the desk, only one level off the highest and have solely misplaced one among their 11 league matches.
They’ve been in free-flowing type within the cup, “as they entered this season’s FA Cup within the first spherical correct and recorded high-scoring victories over Asfordby Amateurs (7-1), Sporting Khalsa (8-1) and Shrewsbury City (14-0).”
They then later booked their place alongside United within the fifth spherical by beating Cheltenham City 2-0 final weekend.
United Ladies are set to embark on a busy January the place they’ll face Manchester Metropolis this Sunday night within the league.
They may then host their metropolis rivals at house within the league cup quarter finals simply three days later.
Marc Skinner’s facet will shut out the month with a tough-looking house match in opposition to fifth positioned Brighton and Hove Albion as they chase a Champions League spot by way of a high three end within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
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