When is FA Cup fifth round draw? Liverpool and Arne Slot look to continue quadruple hunt
Liverpool is likely to take the opportunity for some liberal rotation when it takes on Plymouth Argyle in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday. But Arne Slot will still have ambitions of reaching the next phase of the competition, and he won't have too long to wait for the draw if his side comes out on top in Devon.
Slot has already secured progress to one cup final in his debut Anfield season, beating Spurs 4-0 to breeze through to the Carabao Cup showpiece at Wembley. Meanwhile, he's frying some even bigger fish, as he leads the way in the Premier League and sets the pace in the Champions League.
Naturally, that has already stirred some talk of a quadruple, but Virgil van Dijk isn't having any of it. Yet even if the Liverpool captain and the rest of the squad will be taking it one game at a time, there will undoubtedly be an appetite to end the season with as much silverware as possible, and that certainly includes the FA Cup.
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The draw for the fifth round will take place on Monday, and will be shown live in the UK on BBC One. It is scheduled to take place at approximately 7:10PM GMT, which is 2:10PM ET and 11:10AM PT.
By this point, Liverpool will have known for a little over 24 hours whether or not it is in the hat for the next round of the FA Cup. The match against Plymouth will have to be settled on the day, after replays were scrapped from the first round onward this season.
Should the scores be level after 90 minutes (an outcome Slot will certainly hope to avoid), then Liverpool will have to play a 30-minute period of extra time, before a penalty shootout, if required. The winner will then be included in Monday's draw.
But despite the scrapping of replays, certain balls in the draw will still represent more than one possible team. Doncaster Rovers vs Crystal Palace kicks off half an hour or so after the fifth round draw, and Exeter City vs Nottingham Forest is not until Tuesday night.
As ever, it will be an open draw, with no restrictions on who Liverpool could meet if it makes it through to round five. Exeter and Doncaster are among the lowest-ranked sides currently left in the competition, while 16 Premier League sides have made it this far (although some face each other in the fourth round).
It has been a favorable draw for Liverpool so far. Slot's side breezed past Accrington Stanley of League Two in the third round of the FA Cup, with Federico Chiesa netting his first goal for the club and Jayden Danns getting on the score-sheet as well. Liverpool now faces a Plymouth side that is rock bottom of the Championship. It recently changed managers, after an ill-fated spell with Wayne Rooney at the helm.
Even so, progression is far from a guarantee, especially with Liverpool likely to be fielding a rotated team. Slot will need to ensure standards remain high in order to be in Monday's draw — and to keep hopes of a quadruple alive, even if he and his captain won't entertain any such talk.