Carlos Tevez scored twice as Manchester United kept their bid to win five trophies this season on track with a convincing 4-0 win away to Fulham in the FA Cup quarter-finals. They joined Chelsea in the last four after their title rivals had earlier defeated second-tier Coventry City 2-0. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson did not even bother to bring star winger Cristiano Ronaldo to London for the all top-flight battle at Craven Cottage and left Dimitar Berbatov on the bench.

The only negative for United was a potential addition to their long injury list when a hobbling Rio Ferdinand was replaced at halftime. Argentina striker Tevez was drafted in alongside Brazilian Anderson as United, seven points clear of Chelsea at the top of the Premier League and in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, continued their quest to add the FA Cup to the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2008 and English League Cup they have already won this season.

This was a victory completed with supreme confidence and surprising ease against Premier League rivals who had lost just twice at home this season before this game. Surprisingly, the guiltiest culprit among United's defence was Serbian centre-back Nemanja Vidic who was initially caught out by Andy Johnson's clever flick from Simon Davies's long ball that eluded Edwin van der Sar, which was kept out of the net only by Vidic's recovering lunge.

With Clint Dempsey also forcing an early save from United keeper van der Sar, Fulham could claim to have had the best of the opening 19 minutes. That was as good as it got, however, for Roy Hodgson's side, who saw all their good early work go to waste when they failed to deal with the 20th minute corner that resulted in Tevez nodding United ahead from close range. Anderson's ball in was won by Rooney and the England striker's header flew towards the back post where his strike-partner easily out-jumped Fulham left-back Paul Konchesky to finish from close range.

United were moving smoothly through the gears, and when Fulham midfielder Davies volleyed over from inside the area, there was a sense of inevitability about the outcome. That feeling was reinforced in dramatic style when Tevez conjured a superb individual effort to put United 2-0 up in the 35th minute.The former West Ham United player cut in from the left side and left Fulham's Dickson Etuhu on the turf before bending a superb right-foot strike into the top corner and away from Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.

Tevez's moment of brilliance meant that Rooney's earlier astonishing miss - the striker turned Park's low cross against the post from just five yards out - was quickly forgotten as United took total command. Rooney added a third early in the second-half when be beat Schwarzer with a precisely-placed shot into the far corner. South Korea's Park Ji-Sung set the seal on victory with a goal nine minutes from time when he intercepted Zoltan Gera's wayward pass and curled an excellent finish past Schwarzer.

Everton are at home to Middlesbrough in another all top-flight last eight clash on 8 March when Arsenal, who are a round behind, face Championship side Burnley, who knocked the Gunners out of the League Cup in December.