FA Cup fifth round: talking points from the weekend?s matches

What Ruben Amrorim should do now, Danny Welbeck and an unlikely England call, and why Michal Oliver was right
?Pick the kids!? is a frequent cry when a team are playing poorly, and generally speaking it?s an incorrect one: the last thing a young player needs is to be hurled into a mess of the sort Manchester United are in. But sometimes it works ? Mikel Arteta, for example, struggling at Arsenal, eventually promoted Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe because he had no other choice, and hasn?t looked back since. Now Ruben Amorim must make a similar call. A lack of alternatives forced him to persevere with Rasmus H?jlund, but over the past week Chido Obi-Martin has earned a chance, contributing at Everton before asserting properly against Fulham, on both occasions more dangerous than H?jlund, in less time. And, given United?s league season is over ? and, given also, their lack of pace in defence ? it might be worth seeing what Ayden Heaven can do, seeking to inject momentum and good feeling into a two-month stretch that threatens to be enervating in the extreme. Daniel Harris
Match report: Manchester United 1-1 Fulham (aet, 3-4 pens)
Match report: Newcastle 1-2 Brighton
Match report: Crystal Palace 3-1 Millwall
Match report: Manchester City 3-1 Plymouth Argyle
Match report: Preston 3-0 Burnley
Match report: Bournemouth 1-1 Wolves (aet, B?mouth win 5-4 on pens)
Match report: Aston Villa 2-0 Cardiff City
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