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Micky Mellon said Tranmere would embrace their lucrative fourth-round FA Cup tie against Manchester United but denied Sunday represented an ideal opportunity to increase Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s problems.
Rovers, languishing 21st in League One, secured a home tie with Old Trafford’s fallen giants by overcoming Watford in extra time at Prenton Park. Mellon was manager of Shrewsbury Town when Louis van Gaal’s team won a fifth-round encounter en route to claiming the FA Cup in 2016 and insisted first-hand experience taught him not to treat United lightly.
Asked if United were vulnerable against lower league opposition, the Tranmere manager replied: “No. They are a fantastic football club and will come here very professional. I’ve seen the other side of that when I was at Shrewsbury and they came like robots, did the job and got out of town. I know that is the threat they possess.
“We have to go out there and understand that is what will come here. They are an unbelievable football club and we are a League One club, at the bottom end of League One, but we are going to give it everything we’ve got. We will try to represent the club again and the players will run their socks off again and who knows?
“What we do know is that we will be up against a formidable outfit.”
The poor pitch at Prenton Park presents another problem for Solskjær on Sunday although, to his credit, Nigel Pearson lamented only the first-half approach of some of his young players rather than the playing surface for the result. Mellon added: “A lot of hard work has gone into the pitch. We got it on and it was a good game on there. Nigel wouldn’t moan about it because he’s a good guy and he knows what it is like in the lower leagues.
“I don’t think it’s an opportunity because of the form United are in. I know they have a threat. We have to make sure we are ready. We will give it everything we have got. There is no doubt we will be up against a good side.”
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