with plenty of opportunities, and this one that danny ings put in the net was disallowed for an earlier foul when var became involved as united set up a lith round clash at home to middlesbrough. 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 of almost 13,000 tests. 94 new cases were recorded in the previous seven days. covid is still impacting on the league though everton s premier league home match with leicester city on tuesday has been postponed because the foxes don t have enough players to fulfil the fixture. at the africa cup of nations it was a big day for the comoros, playing in the competition for the first time. the archipelago is one of football s youngest nations they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. they were up against gabon, and aaron boupendza s first half finish was the difference
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