Cambridge have a good FA Cup pedigree, reaching the quarter-final in successive seasons in 1989 and 1990, taking Manchester United to a fourth-round replay in 2015 and beating Newcastle United in the third round in 2021-22.<\/p>\n
They also made the fourth round a year ago before losing 5-2 to Blackburn Rovers and knocked out League One side Stockport County in a penalty shootout last month, which earned them the reward of a home tie against Birmingham.<\/p>\n
The U’s gave a good account of themselves when they met Blues in the league last May, going down 2-1 following a late own goal by Kell Watts<\/a>, who signed a new contract with the club on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n “Birmingham showcased themselves brilliantly as a team, as they had done all season, and we showed what we hopefully were going to mould into, a really aggressive, competitive side,” Harris added.<\/p>\n “I think we’ve shown that against Luton [EFL Trophy], Fulham, Charlton [League Cup] and Stockport this year – good sides – and we’ll be looking to do the same against Birmingham.”<\/p>\n Harris played for Millwall against Birmingham in the FA Cup in 2011 – a game the Lions lost 4-1 – and believes the visitors will pose a big test no matter which players opposite number Chris Davies sends out in his starting 11.<\/p>\n “We know whatever side Chris decides to pick – there’s going to be an array of talent, an expensively assembled team, and we’ll be fully prepared for it,” Harris added.<\/p>\n “Ultimately, it’s a free hit for us, just to go and enjoy ourselves and what’s what we’re going to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambridge have a good FA Cup pedigree, reaching the quarter-final in successive seasons in 1989 and 1990, taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}