Louis van Gaal speaking to Match Of The Day before kick-off : "You have to look maybe it's true (about Rooney playing as a striker). Of course. Ander Herrera is a midfielder not a striker so I don't think he will play in the striker's position.

"We know that in advance we have to look to ourselves abut also the quality from the opponents and make decisions.

"They can always make problems for us with the long balls and tall guys and we don't have tall guys. Maybe that's a problem. Also set plays maybe they have scored goals from that. So it's not so easy."

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David Beckham spent just one month on loan at Preston after arriving from Manchester United at the end of February 1995 but the scrawny and quiet 19-year-old made a big impression.

"Frail but confident," was how team-mate David Moyes described him.

He came off the bench to score direct from a corner against Doncaster on his debut and struck a peach of a free-kick in a 3-2 win over Fulham on his first start - the core skills that underpinned his career were clearly already in evidence.

Beckham, with North End paying a portion of his wage and, apparently, stumping up the young midfielder's petrol money, played five games in total before Sir Alex Ferguson decided that a boy had become a man and recalled him to Old Trafford.

PNE missed out on promotion that year - a familiar story of play-off defeat - but the following season Beckham was in the stands at Leyton Orient, sat next to his father Ted, to see his old team-mates celebrate the 2-0 win that ensured they would be going up.

By that time Beckham had become a first-team regular at United and was a month away from winning the FA Cup, defeating Liverpool 1-0 in a stinker of a final, but he never forgot where it all started for him.

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Preston boss Simon Grayson will fancy his chances of masterminding an FA Cup upset tonight, given his previous experience of guiding a League One side to victory against Manchester United.

He was Leeds manager in 2010 when Jermaine Beckford's solitary goal was enough to secure a 1-0 win at Old Trafford.

"Every time I go to Leeds, people remind me about it," said Grayson. "It's a different football club, different personnel, but I'll draw from the experience and what a great feeling it was to win at Old Trafford that day.

"You don't get the opportunity to do that very often. I want to try to replicate that if possible. You have to have that belief that you can do it."

Grayson won't be able to call upon Beckford this time, with the striker out for Preston, who he joined in November, because of an ear infection.

Former Manchester United defender Phil Neville, who is part of the BBC Sport coverage team at Deepdale, has been answering your questions on Facebook. Here are a selection:

Jake Fursman: Do you think Man United should keep Falcao after his loan finishes?

PN: I think it's a big last couple of months for him. He needs to be performing and scoring goals to earn that move. He had a stuttering start because of injury but now he's on a good run and there's obviously a world class goalscorer there - you can see by his movement. He just needs to put goals in the net and show everyone the real Falcao

David Anthony: Do you think Olivier Giroud is now a world class striker? If not, why?

PN: I don't think he's world class but I do think he's a really good CF and there could be a really good partnership with Danny Welbeck. There's a natural balance between them both. For Giroud, you'd like to see him grab a game by the scruff of the neck, bully centre-backs and score more goals, but he is getting better.

There are plenty more of your questions and Phil's answers on the Match of the Day Facebook page., external

Stephen Bean:, external I am from a village called Feniton in Devon. Where Jo Pavey hails from. Went to same school! She regularly opens the fun day!

Ulysses Salmon:, external I was born in the same town as - and trained under- Ray Park. Who? Darth Maul. The prequel trilogy was garbage but Darth Maul!

Jack Moult:, external This weekend's Prizefighter winner Tom Doran is from Connah's Quay like me.

Who is the most famous person from your neck of the woods?

England boss Roy Hodgson speaks to BBC School report before taking part in the draw for the FA Cup quarter finals...

...Martin Keown's co-commentating alongside Guy Mowbray tonight. He'll also be selecting the three FA Man of the Match nominees for you to vote on at 80 minutes.

It's been a while since United visited Deepdale.

Forty-three years in fact. Watch footage from the fourth round of the FA Cup back in February 1972, the last time Manchester United faced Preston North End.

Time had taken its toll on the team of Denis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton, though the three played that day as Frank O'Farrell's side toiled to a 2-0 victory.

BBC News School Reporters Indigo, Harry, Lilli, Jonny and Daniel from Walton le Dale Arts College and High School in Lancashire interviewed Preston mascot Deepdale Duck before the match - and he revealed his rivalry with his Manchester United counterpart Fred the Red.

"I've always had the upper hand against him. I stole his tail once and I held it to ransom. I took it everywhere until Manchester United got a bit angry with me and I took it back," he said.

Here the full interview on the School Report website.

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The splendidly attired Roop Singh won't give a final score prediction, but reckons there'll be three goals tonight.

"Either way it's a win-win," he says. "The lads have done us proud - we're bringing one of the biggest teams in the world to our back yard, the epicentre of world football.

"We've got the record win in the FA Cup, 26-0, and we're the only team to win the competition without conceding a goal. No multi-million pound team has ever come close... Man Utd can only DREAM about those records!"

Roop knows a thing or two about making dreams come true..., external

Man Utd

Goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and midfielder Daniel Johnson are cup tied for Preston, so in comes Thorsten Stuckmann and Chris Humphrey. The only other change for the hosts is midfielder Neil Kilkenny in for defender Scott Wiseman.

Manchester United name a strong side, with Wayne Rooney, Radamel Falcao and Angel Di Maria all starting.

In total Louis van Gaal makes five changes to the team that beat Burnley last time out - Antonio Valencia, Chris Smalling, Luke Shaw, Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera all come in with Paddy McNair, Phil Jones, Johnny Evans, Adnan Januzaj and Robin van Persie.

Preston XI: Stuckmann, Clarke, Huntington, Wright, Laird, Humphrey, Welsh, Kilkenny, Gallagher, K. Davies and Garner.

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Rojo, Shaw, Blind, Herrera, Rooney, Fellaini, Di Maria, Falcao.

Chris Bevan at Deepdale
BBC Sport

"Around 4,500 Manchester United fans will fill end up the entire Bill Shankly Kop at Deepdale tonight, and most of them will probably not realise it is decorated with the mosaic of their one-time nemesis, the legendary Liverpool manager who played almost 300 games for North End either side of World War II.

"Whether those same United fans see any silverware secured by their side this season almost certainly exclusively depends on tonight's result and their continuing progress in this competition.

"With the league title looking a distant dream, defeat tonight would realistically mean the earliest end to United's season in terms of the pursuit of a trophy since the 1986-87 campaign, Sir Alex Ferguson's first in charge, when they lost at home to Coventry in the FA Cup fourth round on 31 January."

Phil Neville
Former Manchester United defender at Deepdale

"Preston's players will be so excited. They have been building up for two weeks, and will have watched all the FA Cup games over the weekend waiting for their moment to come and it's finally here. The key message will be go out and enjoy themselves and that's precisely what Preston manager Simon Grayson will tell them."

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Britain's most expensive ever footballer Angel Di Maria graces the Deepdale turf this evening - but who are North End's most expensive players?

Veteran striker Kevin Davies once went for £7.5m - no, he did! - but the League One club have not spent any serious cash on a player for a good few years now.

Their entire squad in action tonight were free transfers or loans.

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Cast your mind back to August, and Louis van Gaal's trip to face the MK Dons.

Like tonight, United were heavy favourites against a side from the third tier. Like tonight, the game was live on TV, like tonight it was a chance for 'the minnows' to impress in the shop window.

Nobody saw a 4-0 win for the Dons coming.

Could North End upset the apple cart again?

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Preston are in the race for promotion from League One this season, but on paper they have no chance of a result against the mighty Manchester United.

However, try telling that to the 20,000 or so North End fans at Deepdale tonight.

Bradford City - five places and 12 points below Preston in the League One table - have shown what can be done by disposing of Sunderland and Chelsea, and United have their own League One horror tale to remember this season...

Phil Neville
Former Manchester United defender at Deepdale

"It's all about getting the victory when you get to this stage of the FA Cup. When I was player the chairman used to come in the dressing room for games like these and say he could almost smell the hot dogs of Wembley!"

Man Utd

Manchester United make five changes, as Robin van Persie misses out altogether. Wayne Rooney and Radamel Falcao start. Full team news to come.

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This is where Louis van Gaal's Manchester United players will be getting ready for tonight's game - the away dressing room at Deepdale.

Andrew Flintoff, Sir Tom Finney, R2D2 (Kenny Baker), Lawro and killer Kilbane, Helen Clitheroe, creator of Wallace & Gromit Nick Park - Preston has more than its fair share of famous sons and daughters.

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But who is the most famous person - past or present - from your home town, city, village or hamlet? The more obscure, the better. Let's hear them.

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To start the ball rolling, I was born in the same town as Neil Morrissey. Top that...