Maidstone dream tie, Man City nightmare - Chelsea's best and worst FA Cup fifth round scenarios

Mauricio Pochettino's Chelsea side will discover their potential FA Cup fifth round opponents when the draw for the next stage of the competition is made on Sunday afternoon. In fourth round action on Friday night at Stamford Bridge, the Blues and Aston Villa played out a 0-0 draw in west London and a replay will now be needed to decide the winners of the tie.

Although there is not an official date in the diary for the FA Cup fixture just yet, the game at Villa Park will be played week commencing Monday, February 5. It will be a very tough ask for Chelsea to triumph in the Midlands considering Unai Emery's team are unbeaten at home in the league this campaign having won nine and drawn one of their ten fixtures.

Chelsea are in a good run of form at the moment, though, and they will be hoping that continues at Aston Villa as they target a second domestic cup final this season. Chelsea and Aston Villa will know their potential FA Cup fifth round opponents going into their replay, with the draw taking place on Sunday afternoon from around 2pm before Liverpool and Norwich City go head-to-head at Anfield.

Chelsea and Villa are ball No.8 in the draw and both sides will be hoping that luck is on their side as they aim to go all the way and triumph at Wembley at the end of May. So what exactly would be the best and worst case scenarios for Chelsea in round four? football.london takes a look below.

Coming up against one of the lowest-ranked teams left in the competition would undoubtedly be the best case scenario for Pochettino and Chelsea. National League South side Maidstone are the lowest ranked team left in the FA Cup by quite some distance considering they play in England's sixth tier.

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