Johnson relishing United tie

Yeovil boss Gary Johnson is relishing pitting his wits against Louis van Gaal at home to Manchester United in the FA Cup third round.

Yeovil manager Gary Johnson is relishing pitting his wits against Louis van Gaal after his side booked an FA Cup third-round home tie against Manchester United. Late goals from Simon Gillett and Kieffer Moore wrapped up a 2-0 replay win at home to Accrington to set up a tie with the European giants. In an error-strewn game on a slippery surface, the opener arrived in the 84th minute when Seth Twumasi's cross was challenged by Tom Eaves and goalkeeper Jack Rose and the ball spilled to Gillett who drilled into the empty net. The dream tie was confirmed four minutes later when Sam Foley's left-wing cross found the unmarked Moore, who headed inside the far post. Johnson said: "The feeling at the moment is one of excitement and we are all now going to be looking forward to that game. It wasn't a great game but both teams gave everything and we came up trumps. "Sometimes you have to wait until the last few minutes. When the second goal went in then I think all our fans and directors and management started to think Manchester United coming to town. "They are a decent team and with the prize being so big they were going to give it everything. But we have got that game now against probably the biggest team in the world and if our ground could hold 100,000 people we would probably get 100,000 people here. "This is a key moment and a big moment in my career and I knew what it meant to the club and of course it's massive financially for the club, we can't sell players for £250,000 so you have to go about it in other ways." Stanley manager John Coleman says the bigger prize will be taking Yeovil's place in League One. He said: "We can't beat ourselves up over it, we have given it our best shot, I've got no complaints and we've given it our best shot. "The lads are disappointed with the goals, especially the first, but someone had to lose. "You got the feeling it wasn't going to be our day when we hit the underside of the crossbar. It's very small margins but it was not to be. "Congratulations to Yeovil and I hope they enjoy their day in the sun against Manchester United but I want to take their place in League One, that will be the bigger prize for me. "Over the two legs, nobody can begrudge the fact we were the better team. Even the most ardent Yeovil fan couldn't dispute that. "It won't be that hard to pick the players up. It is is great set of lads, a great camaraderie here, they are good players as we showed."