from the bbc sport centre. good evening. manchester united, who've won the fa cup 12 times, are up against aston villa in their third round tie at old trafford with the winner to host middlesbrough. the home side took an early lead in the eighth minute with fred's bought into the box and seeing tom and tom and i get to the end of it to head past emiliano martinez. these are live pictures now on bbc one, there are about 22 minutes played. philip coutinho who signed from barcelona on loan from aston villa for the remainder of the season is going to be eligible to play in the premier league game against the same opponents on saturday. new figures from the premier league show the number of positive covid—i9 tests among players and staff have fallen for the second successive week. in the seven days up to and including the 9th of january, there were 72 new positive cases out