Glenn Murray got just a bit lucky last time he enjoyed a cup glory night at Old Trafford.

Now the Albion striker has admitted it might require another bit of good fortune to secure a shock in the FA Cup quarter-finals this evening.

But, if he is selected as part of the Seagulls’ first sixth-round tie since 1986, he would love to roll the dice.

It’s déjà vu for Albion. For the third game in a row, they take on one of the great old names of the Premier League who have a manager under pressure.

They succeeded in turning up the heat even further on Arsene Wenger when Arsenal lost at the Amex.

Sam Allardyce gave himself a pleasingly hassle-free afternoon when his Everton side beat the Seagulls 2-0 six days later.

But you could hear the discontent early in the game and its return just before the Toffees scored their first goal.

Up in the Goodison main stand well before kick-off, a senior steward told colleagues to make sure they had their notebooks in their pockets because things might turn ugly should Everton fall behind and they would need to record the details.

As it turned out, the books were not needed.

Now Albion meet a Manchester United side either vulnerable or galvanised, depending on how you suspect they will react to their midweek Champions League defeat at home to Sevilla and Jose Mourinho's press conference yesterday.

Ashley Young believes there will be a backlash.

Young, whose shot brought the only goal of the teams’ league meeting in November, said: “It’s obviously disappointing, there’s a lot of disappointment in there, but you have got to dust yourselves down and take the disappointment into the weekend.

“We’ve got another cup competition we’ve got to go and play for and we want to get ourselves back to winning ways and into the next round in that competition.”

Young got lucky when Albion were last at Old Trafford.

The Argus:

From a corner which the Seagulls did not think should have been awarded, he let fly with a shot which took a horrible deflection off Lewis Dunk and looped into the one bit of the goal Mathew Ryan could not reach.

That was misfortune for Albion.

But there was a bit more to their defeat than that. They lacked a bit of precision and composure at the other end of the field when they got into some great positions.

The hope will be they have improved and matured since then.

There were no such problems for Palace in a League Cup in those early weeks of Murray’s stint as an Eagle.

He scored the winner as the mid-table Championship outfit beat Sir Alex Ferguson’s side 2-1 at Old Trafford.

If there is a replica of Murray’s goal that night on Saturday, it will not be allowed to stand. VAR will be in operation and would presumably point out that Murray was offside.

As it was, he got away with it as he evaded Jonny Evans to nod a cross past Ben Amos.

“I think if you go to places like that you need a little bit of luck on the night,” Murray told The Argus when asked what was required. “Hopefully we will be carrying that.”

That is the luck which might ultimately make the difference after an awful lot of hard work over 90 or 120 minutes.

Were Sevilla a bit lucky to see David De Gea flailing when Ben Yedder scored his winner on Tuesday?

Did Manchester City get a break late in their 2-1 league success at Old Trafford this season when Ander Herrera might have had a penalty?

Murray’s format is you do all you can, you hang on in there and then hope things drop your way.

That bit about hanging in there might be tougher for Albion, given any United backlash and given Mourinho’s men now know not to take them lightly.

At the time, Mourinho felt Albion were United’s toughest opponents at Old Trafford Seagulls defender Shane Duffy said: “I always say no two games are the same but you can take confidence from it.

“They will probably be more prepared so we are expecting a tough game.

“We go there with no pressure on us. We are one game from Wembley and you have got to believe - and we do.”

This is Albion’s first FA Cup quarter-final away from Hove and their toughest ever. But it will be long remembered if all goes well.

Back on Merseyside, once he had double-checked he had his notebook, that Everton steward made it clear while chatting that he still recalled the day the old foes from Anfield lost at home to Albion in a fifth-round tie 35 years ago.

As for Sevilla, they were talking about Tuesday’s events as what older readers might call a JFK moment.

Or a General Franco moment, as the city’s newspaper El Decano put it. “Where were you when Franco died? Where were you when Sevilla won at Old Trafford?” they asked readers in the editorial.

Murray’s golden moment with Palace in the League Cup is not quite in that category.

“It was a good night,” he said after a few seconds of thinking time.

“I wouldn’t pick it out as the best night but it was a good night.”

But an Albion win tonight would be one for club legend.