Jamie Jackson’s match report has arrived, so I’ll be on my way. Thanks for your company and emails; night!

Frank Lampard’s verdict

[Did you deserve better?] I think so. The players were very, very good in the sense of the organisation, the gameplan, the work ethic, the togetherness – things that should be basics in football, but people question them when you have a performance and result like we did the other night.

We were really good. I’d need to analyse the game but we had the better chances I think. Marcus Rashford was probably the difference between the teams; top individual talent can do that to you.

It’s not under my control [whether he gets sacked], it’s not for me to focus on that. Our focus is the next game against Southampton. This league can change very quickly. When you’re having difficult times you need to work really hard to get out of it. The picture can change.

[Has tonight enhanced your chances of keeping the job?] I don’t want to go on about that. I only want to talk about the players and how well they played. I’m not concerned; my focus is on this team and getting a result against Southampton.

When the players perform with the spirit of an Everton player, like they did tonight, the fans will react [positively] to that, even in defeat. That says a lot. I don’t want to hear that talk about the fans too much in a football sense. Our game next week is at Goodison. We need to make the fans feel about the team like they did tonight, and then try and win the game.

Marcus Rashford speaks

This is probably up there with the best goalscoring form I’ve had in my career. I feel good on the pitch. I’m getting in positions and areas to score goals, and if we keep creating chances I feel at the minute I’ll keep scoring. We want be in finals and we want to win trophies. Hopefully we’ll get the chance to do that.

Rashford ran round the ball, maintained eye contact with Pickford for as long as possible and then passed the ball into the bottom-right corner. Nicely done.

United played their way out of trouble, with two excellent passes from McTominay and Fred releasing Fernandes in space. He played in Garnacho, who was brought down by Godfrey. A soft penalty, but a penalty nonetheless.

90+5 min: Penalty to Man Utd!

90+4 min Fernandes controls a long ball superbly on the edge of the area but then flicks a shot well wide with the outside of the right foot.

90+3 min Rashford almost adds a goal to his two assists. He received a through pass from McTominay, surged into the area and was about to shoot when Godfrey made an excellently judged sliding tackle.

90+3 min ITV’s player of the match is, yep, Marcus Rashford.

90+2 min McNeil wins a corner on the left for Everton. Gray curls it beyond the far post to Godfrey, who fails to contrrol an admittedly difficult ball. He retrieves it nonetheless and stands up a decent cross that hits one of the many bodies at the far post and goes behind. Everton want a corner; they don’t get it.

90 min There will be six minutes of added time. Gray cuts inside from the right and drives a low left-footed shot from the edge of the area that is comfortably held to his left by de Gea.

89 min … and wobbles a decent free-kick that is tipped over by the leaping Pickford. It was straight enough for it to be a relatively comfortable save.

89 min The resulting free-kick is about 25 yards from goal, to the left of centre. Rashford strolls up…

87 min The corner is taken short and cleared, but United keep the ball alive and Onana is booked for a lunge at Martinez.

87 min Rashford gives United’s defence a breather with a good run that leads to a corner.

86 min Godfrey tries to go past Martinez in the area. Martinez gets himself between Godfrey and the ball and allows it to run out of play; terrific defending.

85 min It’s all Everton now, although they haven’t created anything since Calvert-Lewin’s disallowed goal.

83 min: Double substitution for Man Utd Harry Maguire and Scott McTominay replace Christian Eriksen and Antony. That probably means a switch to a 5-2-3 formation.

82 min One thing that is abundantly clear from this game is that Frank Lampard hasn’t lost the Everton dressing-room.

81 min: Everton substitutions Anthony Gordon and Dwight McNeil replace Seamus Coleman and Vitalii Mykolenko; two wingers for two wing-backs.

78 min This is Everton’s best spell of the second half, by a distance, and United look a bit frantic defensively. In unrelated news, Fred came on for Casemiro a few minutes ago.

76 min: Man Utd substitution Lisandro Martinez, United’s conquering hero, comes on for Tyrell Malacia. Shaw moves to left-back.

70 min: Manchester United substititions Fred and Alejandro Garnacho replace Casemiro and Anthony Martial. That means Rashford will move up front.

69 min: Everton substitution Neal Maupay is replaced by Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who scored a late equaliser on this ground in a 3-3 draw a couple of years ago.

68 min “Much obliged to Simon Gill for the excellent recommendation,” says Justin Madson. “My Google search shows me that not only is he correct about the cold remedy, it is highly recommended as a hangover remedy - something much more difficult to cure. Everton fans may want to bookmark this recipe as well, as Man U scored while I typed this out.

“Also thanks to Joe Pearson for the official Soup MBM, though I am sad I have to read through Chelsea’s tie with Forest to find the info. And to Jeff Sachs for the chicken tip - I have eaten chicken-based soups to no avail so I have come to the best soup recommenders in the business for something new. Maybe Darwin Nunez could do with a bowl.”

67 min Doucoure is booked for fouling Rashford. He thought Rashford dived and waved an imaginary yellow card at the referee. The replays aren’t conclusive but I think Doucoure caught him.

66 min Eriksen takes the free-kick short to Fernandes, who cuts across a long-range drive that is tipped over the bar by the leaping Pickford. A good strike but a straightforward enough save.

65 min Rashford slows Doucoure down, then nutmegs him and is fouled. He is playing with stratospheric confidence.

65 min “It’s too bad this is merely in the third round,” says Kári Tulinius. “If this was the final Conor Coady would join Billy the White Horse and Stanley Matthews in having a FA Cup final named after him.”

Don’t forget the man who made Ricky Villa’s goal possible.

64 min: Chances plural for Everton! That was really close to an equaliser. Coleman collected a loose ball on the right side of the area and drove a low cross-shot that was kicked away well by the stretching de Gea. The ball rebounded to Mykolenko, whose slightly tame follow up was cleared off the line by Dalot.

63 min “I just opened my chicken noodle soup for a bite before work... and lost my appetite with Alex Iwobi being stretchered off,” says Brad Wilson. “He’s been one of the few highlights for us Evertonians this season. Bad luck follows the Toffees like a black cat.”

62 min Fernandes dances past a couple of defenders in the area, but he can’t find an angle for the shot so lays the ball back to Antony. He’s crowded out.

61 min Godfrey is booked for biting Rashford’s ankles.

60 min The overlapping Dalot wins a corner off Gueye. United have been really good since half-time, with a much better tempo to their passing. Nothing comes of the corner.

58 min “You’re getting sacked in the morning,” rings round Old Trafford., followed by a not entirely PC reference to Lampard’s time at Stamford Bridge.

For what it’s worth – bugger all – I wouldn’t sack Lampard. I think he’s done okay in extremely difficult circumstances.

58 min “Am worried about Mary Waltz,” says Jeff Sachs. “She’s far too quiet.”

She is allowed a day off, especially as she’s not even employed by the Guardian.

57 min Martial dribbles past Onana, who makes an excellent recovery tackle on the edge of the area. United are well on top right now.

54 min Rashford and Dalot combine to find Antony, whose low shot from 20 yards is straight at Pickford.

Marcus Rashford is so damn hot right now. He received a crossfield pass from Eriksen on the left and charged straight at the backpedalling Coleman. Once he was inside the area he moved Coleman outside, inside and then outside again – sound the twisted blood klaxon – before ramming a low cross from the byline that the stretching Coady turned into his own net. Coady had to go for it, as he had no idea what was behind him. That was another devastatingly incisive burst from Rashford, who is playing as well as anyone in England right now.

52 min “Best soup for colds: chicken,” says Jeff Sachs. “Water, a few pieces of chicken, one whole potato, one onion, carrots. Can add sweet potato. Proven track record.”

Is that last sentence about chicken soup or Darwin Nunez?

51 min: Everton substitution Abdoulaye Doucoure replaces Alex Iwobi.

50 min Iwobi is stretchered off. He still has his shirt over his face, and I fear that’s a pretty bad injury.

49 min “The MBM for soups was Forest v Chelsea on New Year’s Day,” says Joe Pearson. “You’re welcome.”

That was Romanian soup; this is soup for colds. Wait till you see tomorrow’s riff!

48 min This doesn’t look great; the referee has called for a stretcher, and Iwobi has his shirt over his face. The Everton players have all gathered round him.

47 min A dodgy ball from Casemiro allows Everton to break, but Malacia gets back to dispossess Iwobi with a strong tackle. Iwobi stays down, in a fair bit of pain, and replays show his right foot got slightly stuck in the turf after he was challenged by Malacia.

46 min Peep peep! Bruno Fernandes begins the second half, with no changes on either side.

“Justin Madson clearly needs double-strength Czech garlic soup - guaranteed against 99% of all known colds,” says Simon Gill. “Google it and go, vole!”

Roy Keane is a pundit on ITV tonight. This is his verdict on David de Gea’s error.

It’s a shocking mistake form an international goalkeeper. It’s like Carry On football. Ir looks as if… he’s almost had a few drinks! It’s like the keeper’s been sent off and there’s an outfield player in goal and he just doesn’t know what to do.

“Appreciate you looking and providing some clarity on Coady (24 min),” says Justin Madson. “Definitely not his fault, and he atoned by putting the pressure on De Gea and Dalot for a goal. Guess I need more soup for my cold - is this the right MBM to get some suggestions?”

It is now!

(I may well have missed something with Coady, and Sam Luckhurst made the point that Mykolenko (at the far post) seemed to be trying to play Antony offside. That’s a weird thing to do when the ball is in the penalty area.)

Half-time reading

44 min For the second time tonight, Casemiro pretends to slip while fouling a breaking Everton player, thus making a potential yellow-card offence look like a clumsy accident. He’s so good at that.

44 min Rashford twists and turns on the edge of the area before hitting a left-footed drive that is kicked away by Coady. Or Tarkowski, I’m not sure. They’re basically the same person.

42 min Gray, so full of confidence, zig-zags thrillingly between Eriksen and Dalot but then plays a poor ball that is intercepted by Fernandes.

40 min: So close from Eriksen! Casemiro bounces Gueye off the ball near the right touchline – Everton thought it was a foul – and Antony snaps an early pass infield to the unmarked Eriksen. He takes a touch on the edge of the box and whistles a lovely left-footed curler that beats Pickford and flashes just over the bar.

37 min Varane wanders down the right wing, in open play, before neatly beating Gueye and laying the ball back to Casemiro. His cross is cleared.

35 min At times this has been like a basketball game – you attack, we attack. Maybe they players have been told to avoid a replay at all costs.

32 min Rashford leads a United counter-attack, running 50 yards before cracking a long-range shot that bounces awkwardly and is pushed away by Pickford, diving to his right.

31 min Fernandes’s cross bounces through to Eriksen beyond the far post. He composes himself and tees up Antony, whose fierce shot from the edge of the area is well blocked.

29 min Luke Shaw is having another good game in his new centre-back role. He’s been around forever but he’s still only 27, and he’s playing some of his best football under Erik ten Hag.

28 min Fernandes is booked for scraping his studs down Onana’s ankle.

28 min I’ve just realised what the Everton goal reminded me of.

27 min Ben Godrey, who picked a fight with Erling Haaland last week, is now squaring up to Marcus Rashford over something and nothing. The referee settles for a word with both.

25 min United, though still the better team, have become a little ragged since the Everton equaliser. It’s a fun game, far more eventful than I feared it would be when I saw my name on the rota.

24 min I think that’s a bit harsh on Coady – isn’t he just trying to position himself to cut out the cross? You’d never usually see a defence try to play offside when they’re that deep, especially if a player if running with the ball.

22 min “Can you (or any MBMers that are smarter than me) explain why Coady looked at Antony in an offside position and in a fit of madness decided to accelerate, which brought Antony onside for the pass from Rashford?” says Justin Madson. “Clearly the rest of the defence was trying to play him offside but I don’t recall the last time I saw a defender actively make an effort to subvert his own offside trap. Or am I really that sick that I am seeing illusions?”

Heh, I’d have to see it again, I wasn’t really watching Coady.

21 min Onana is in a bit of pain after a strong tackle from Casemiro, who won the ball and followed through into Onana’s shin. It’s just an impact injury so he should be fine.

19 min Martial’s shot from the edge of the area is blocked by Tarkowski.

18 min Having seen it again, I still have no idea what de Gea was doing for the Everton goal. I think it also might have been an own goal by Diogo Dalot, who was trying to challenge Coady on the line. A triumph all round.

16 min: Fine save by Pickford! This is so open. Rashford collects a loose ball 40 yards from goal and charges straight at the heart of the Everton defence. He draws Godfrey and slips the ball to his left for Martial, whose shot across goal is brilliantly blocked by the outrushing Pickford.

Everton kept the ball alive from a corner, with Onana muscling Casemiro off the ball on the edge of the area before finding Maupay near the byline. He clipped a short-range cross-shot that pinballed through the legs of de Gea, standing against the near post, and was touched into the net by Coady. I’m not sure what de Gea was trying to do there.

13 min: Gray hits the post! Everton build up patiently on the left, with Mykolenko eventually finding Gray in space 20 yards from goal. He takes a touch and rifles a drive that hits the near post before rebounding off the back of de Gea and behind for a corner. That could easily have gone in, Bruno Bellone-style.

12 min “Observing the passing of the great Gianluca Vialli - for those of us in our 50s, that splendidly uniformed Mancini-Vialli Samp team of the late 80s was something else,” says Simon Frank. “It was like the first foreign girl you ever snogged.”

You did what now?

Ah man, I adored that team. Mancini and Vialli did a book on their scudetto a few years ago; I wish somebody would buy the rights and do an English translation.

11 min Eriksen’s long-range shot hits Onana, and Casemiro swishes the rebound over the bar. United have a bit of a strut on.

10 min “I was going to ask what happens in case of a draw,” says Joe Pearson, “but with United scoring with such ease so early, it seems that outcome will be unlikely.”

There are third-round replays this year, aye.

9 min This is a really open game, helped no doubt by the early goal. Everton have looked quite bright in United’s half, though they’ve been a bag of nerves near their own penalty area.

6 min This could get away from Everton if they’re not careful. Pickford’s clearance is intercepted by Eriksen, whose header finds Fernandes. He gives the ball to Martial, who turns on the edge of the area and sweeps a shot just wide of the far post. I’m not sure Pickford would have saved it.

5 min That was really similar to Manchester City’s goal last night, with one difference – I’m not sure Jordan Pickford could have done much about it. It was a perfect ball from Rashford, who is in spectacular form right now.

That was a bit too easy for United. Martial swept a pass out to Rashford on the left. He was shown down the line by Godfrey – so he went down the line, burned Godfrey off and angled a devastating left-footed cross that was slid into the empty net by Antony at the far post.

1 min Peep peep! Everton kick off from right to left as we watch.

“Today’s game holds a special personal significance to me,” says Vibanshu Bisht. “In 1995, our terrestrial broadcaster in India, which only showed the World cup and Euros, was telecasting the FA Cup final. I tuned in late, and completely unfamiliar with club football, chose to support the team that was trailing and have supported them ever since. I shudder to think of the years of misery if the score had been reversed that day.”

Mary Waltz, Matt Burtz and Gary Naylor will be along to enlighten you any second now.

The players are out on the field, and there’s a decent enough atmosphere at Old Trafford: 6.1 on the Stapletonometer.

Here’s Adam Roberts on Frank Stapleton and noise, lots of noise

“Absolutely huge reaction. Coming so late in the game and relying on the aerial power of Macari added an extra layer of hilarity and joy. And it was the sixth round, so a big deal. Sadly, I missed the Barcelona game as I had left Manchester on March 1st to start a new job and couldn’t take time off to go back.”

Everton had quietly battered United as well, which I suspect made the goal all the sweeter. “The secret ingredient is crime” and all that.

“Hey Rob, I could never claim to be a fan of Cremonese, Sampdoria, Juventus, Chelsea, or even Italy, but, as you say, for some reason this one has hit hard,” says Simon McMahon. “Still young, just after a World Cup, just before an FA Cup third round weekend. Life, and football, goes on, both enriched by memories of the greats. RIP Gianluca Vialli.”

Yeah, there’s usually a lot of subtext in tributes, but almost everything today has honest and unvarnished. Also, anyone who scores a sliding header is clearly a bit special.

Frank Lampard’s pre-match interview

“[Is this as hard as it’s been at Everton?] Maybe Crystal Palace at Goodison last season [when they came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 and stay up] was the hardest because of the jeopardy of the game. That’s the situation I did come into. We have to keep working – there has been pressure and noise this week, and that happens in Premier League football, it happens at Everton. Fortunately I’m tough to that, and I’ll get on with my job, and the job tonight is to play a really strong team and try to get through to the next round.

“Dominic [Calvert-Lewin] felt some fatigue during the game against Brighton and specifically the morning after. We had a long chat yesterday, and the medical team’s advice – and Dominic’s feeling – was that for him to play 90 minutes would have risked an injury.

“[How much do you need a result tonight?] I dunno. In the normal sense of course, because it’s the FA Cup, and there’s pride and there’s history, and we’re Everton. I want us to perform well, that’s my main concern.”

“Thanks for posting that clip from the 1983 game,” says Adam Roberts. “ I was stood in the left side of the Stretford End and the shot from Big Frank Stapleton was coming straight at me. Even sweeter was my best friend is an Everton supporter who loathed Lou Macari. Happy days.”

Well, was it loud as it sounds? A lot folk say it was behind only Barcelona, and maybe Ajax in 1976-77.

“Good evening,” says Jeff Sachs. “You deserve a weekend off.”

I need to do overtime so that I can afford to buy you this.

We know all about the FA Cup finals between these two – a famous win apiece in 1985 and 1995 – but the last time they met in this competition at Old Trafford also produced a moment to remember. United had been outplayed for most of a goalless game when, in injury time, Ron Atkinson decided to send on Lou Macari. The result was, Barcelona 1984 aside, possibly the loudest roar ever heard at Old Trafford.

“Hi Rob,” says Matt Burtz. “You’re well aware by now that I’m not hesitant to write about Everton, but I’ve not much to say right now. Today’s lineup is one put out by a man who knows this one result may save or cost him his job; it’s quite similar to what obtained the draw with Manchester City last weekend. Frankly (pun intended) it’s the kind of lineup that should have been put out against Brighton; maybe if it had, Lampard’s job wouldn’t be on the line.

“Changes need to be made all through the club, from the top down, and though the current situation isn’t all Lampard’s fault, I don’t think he survives a loss as they have Southampton at home next week which is a six-pointer if there ever was one. Bleak times to be part of the blue half of Merseyside, with not much light at the end of the tunnel.”

Gianluca Vialli didn’t play for Manchester United or Everton, but his sense of fairness helped keep Everton in the Premier League back in the day.

Some deaths, and they’re pretty bloody relentless once you reach a certain age, hit harder than others. The enormous affection in the tributes to Vialli – look how many refer to the person before the footballer – tell their own story.

The teams in formation

Man Utd (4-2-3-1ish) De Gea; Dalot, Varane, Shaw, Malacia; Casemiro, Eriksen; Antony, Fernandes, Rashford; Martial.
Substitutes: Heaton, Lindelof, Maguire, Martinez, Wan-Bissaka, Fred, McTominay, Elanga, Garnacho.

Everton (5-3-2) Pickford; Coleman, Godfrey, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Gueye, Onana; Maupay, Gray.
Substitutes: Begovic, Holgate, McNeil, Calvert-Lewin, Gordon, Mina, Doucoure, Davies, Simms.

Referee Darren England.