Newcastle United boss Steve Bruce has revealed his side have been practising penalties ahead of this evening's FA Cup clash with West Brom.
Fifth-round fixtures must be decided on the night and will no longer require a replay if the two sides are level after 90 minutes.
Instead, extra-time and, if required, a penalty shootout will be used to determine which side makes it through to the quarter-finals.
Newcastle needed extra-time to beat Oxford in round four, while United lost out to Leicester in the Carabao Cup in a penalty shootout back in August.
Bruce is prepared for their clash with the Championship league leaders to go the distance again and in his pre-match media briefing he admitted his players have been practising penalties on the training ground and he has his five takers in mind if a shootout is required.
“Yes, we've been practising. I know my five," Bruce told reporters at Newcastle United's Benton training base.
“Way back when we won the play-off final with Birmingham [in 2002], I just knew it was going to pens, we practised them all week.
"The ones who took them did exactly what they had been doing through the week, the only bad one, the worst of the lot went in somehow. [Darren] Carter scored.”
