RESULT: Chelsea 1-1 Norwich City (aet; Chelsea win 5-3 on penalties)
Chelsea have the good grace not to celebrate too wildly. The champions of England were pushed all the way tonight by Championship side Norwich City, at one point losing their heads to the extent that they ended extra time with only nine men. But they regained their composure during the penalty shoot-out, and a home time against Newcastle United in the fourth round is their reward! Hats off to Norwich, though, for making it one hell of a fight.
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Penalties: Chelsea 5-3 Norwich. Hazard rolls his spot kick into the bottom left, and Chelsea will host Newcastle in the fourth round!
Penalties: Chelsea 4-3 Norwich. Murphy has to score. And he does, pelting one into the top right, sending Caballero the other way. But if Eden Hazard scores next, it’s all over.
Penalties: Chelsea 4-2 Norwich. Kante hits high and hard into the top right. Gunn went the correct way, but had no chance.
Penalties: Chelsea 3-2 Norwich. Vrancic hooks one into the right-hand side , Caballero going to the left.
Penalties: Chelsea 3-1 Norwich. Azpilicueta blasts one into the right-hand side of the net. Gunn went the wrong way.
Penalties: Chelsea 2-1 Norwich. Maddison jinks before hitting one into the bottom left. Cool as you like.
Penalties: Chelsea 2-0 Norwich. Luiz smashes his into the bottom right, Gunn going the other way.
Penalties: Chelsea 1-0 Norwich. Oliveira goes high to the left ... and Caballero parries it away brilliantly!
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Penalties: Chelsea 1-0 Norwich. Willian sends Gunn the wrong way, rolling into the bottom left.
Who’ll host Newcastle United in the fourth round? We’ll finally get an answer soon. But only after a penalty shoot-out. And the kicks won’t be taken in the ABBA sequence; it’ll be the more conventional alternate system. Chelsea to take first. Here we go, then...
EXTRA TIME, FULL TIME: Chelsea 1-1 Norwich City
Klose flashes a header at Caballero, who grasps the ball comfortably. And that’s it! We’re going to penalty kicks! “I am in favour of VAR,” said Antonio Conte before the game. “It is a good option to solve some strange situations and mistakes. It is right this way!” Compare and contrast: he’s ranting in the face of the fourth official in the animated style. His press conference is going to be good fun.
With three minutes of stoppages having been played, Norwich earn a free kick to the right of the Chelsea box! They couldn’t, could they?
RED CARD! Morata (Chelsea)
Morata protests too much, and he’s shown another yellow. Chelsea are down to nine men!
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The extra 30 minutes are up. Morata tries to round Zimmerman on the outside. He goes over in the box, feeling a hand on his shoulder. The referee thinks he’s gone down too easily. No VAR intervention, and so it’s a yellow card for Morata. And then ...
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Two minutes left. After a long period of Chelsea pressure, Norwich are first to everything right now. All the action in the middle of the park. The hosts are getting super-frustrated.
RED CARD! Pedro (Chelsea)
Pedro, booked for simulation earlier on, slams into Hoolahan from behind. It’s a late lunge, and an obvious second yellow. Off he goes. At least he won’t have to take a penalty kick. Three-and-a-half minutes to go!
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Five minutes until penalty kicks, unless Chelsea can do something about it. Or Norwich, obviously, but you see the general direction of travel right now. Pinto is hooked, Tettey coming on in his stead. Once he leaves, that is: Pinto takes an age to get off. Expect at least one added minute once the 120 is up.
Six minutes to go. Zappacosta curls deep from the right and it’s hacked out of play for a corner. Norwich deal with the set piece, but they’re effectively playing with ten men, because Pinto is knackered. Chelsea fling the ball into the mixer again from the right. Morata meets the ball with his head, six yards out! He must score, but it’s straight at Gunn, who drops to the line and smothers. What drama!
It’s attack versus defence. Kante bursts down the left channel and reaches the corner of the six-yard box. He looks for Morata in the middle but Zimmerman is on hand to flick the ball clear. Pinto goes down with cramp. The clock ticks on. Seven minutes left, and the Chelsea faithful are giving the stricken Norwich defender the bird.
Ten minutes to go. It’ll seem like ten years to Norwich. But Chelsea will hear the clock ticking loudly. Azpilicueta sprays a simple pass out of play, under no pressure other than time pressure. The hosts are frustrated.
Corner for Chelsea. Willian hooks it into the six-yard box. Gunn is forced to tip the ball from under his bar at full stretch. Then Morata tries to work the ball round a sliding Klose in the Norwich box. It hits his chest, but Chelsea claim the penalty. The ref - and presumably his VAR sprite - is having none of it.
The teams switch around, Chelsea getting the ball rolling again. We’re 15 minutes away from penalty kicks. It’s raining quite a lot. It’s stormy in Antonio Conte’s soul. If the late, late equaliser wasn’t enough, the Willian penalty non-decision will have put the tin lid on it.
EXTRA TIME, HALF TIME: Chelsea 1-1 Norwich City
A fun first period of extra time comes to an end with the teams still level. A shame the original 90 minutes weren’t like that.
Vrancic lobs a pass down the left and nearly releases Lewis into the Chelsea area. A deep ball finds Hoolahan tight on the byline to the right of goal. Hoolahan performs a thoroughly pointless rabona, a pretty flourish that puts an end to a very promising move. Chelsea nearly punish him thoroughly, Willian and then Morata denied by some staunch work from Gunn.
Eden Hazard comes on for Drinkwater. He’s straight into the action, dancing down the right and very nearly making space for himself in the Norwich area. Not quite. But with 20 minutes of extra time still to play, the brave visitors have a new problem to solve.
Cantwell is sent scampering into acres of space down the inside-right channel. A better cross and he’d have found Hoolahan in the centre. He settles for a cornerl, which comes to naught. But Norwich are giving as good as they’re getting. “Conte will have a face on his face when he recalls that his Chelsea have the early Saturday kickoff at Brighton,” suggests Marie Mayer, not unreasonably.
Now Morata goes down in the Norwich box, Klose getting a bit saucy with his hands. The defender taking a chance there, but he just about gets away with it. Incidentally, the VAR dude didn’t feel the Willian incident was a “clear and obvious error”, so the ref’s original decision stood. Ah, grey areas, the VAR’s Achilles heel.
Willian drops a shoulder in the Norwich box and goes over Klose’s leg. He’s booked for simulation. However, there’s a little contact, but to Conte’s red-faced disbelief, the referee doesn’t go to the VAR ref. Neither does the VAR ref step in. They’ve probably decided that Willian was already going down, looking for the decision before contact was made. But no doubt you’ll hear more of that. It should have been a penalty kick.
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And we’re off again! Chelsea will be kicking themselves: that was uncharacteristically sloppy by Azpilicueta, and sloppy by Luiz. Penny for Conte’s thoughts. You’ve a fair idea, though, haven’t you. Norwich get the ball rolling for the first half of extra time.
FULL TIME: Chelsea 1-1 Norwich City
That was pretty much the last act of the game. In the stand, Delia Smith beams with delight. On the touchline, Antonio Conte has a face on. What a dramatic end to an otherwise dull match! We’re heading to extra time ... and possibly penalty kicks. Newcastle United still don’t know who they’ll be playing in round four!
GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 Norwich City (Lewis 90+4)
We’re heading for extra time! And it’s no more than Norwich City deserve! Klose, out on the left, curls a delicious cross into the area. Lewis rises above the static Luiz and Azpilicueta, and flicks a header into the top right!
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Kante - who came on for Kenedy - slips a ball down the middle of the park for Morata, who tries to spin free on the edge of the Norwich area. His control lets him down. Hoolahan hoofs up the other end. It’s an artful hoof, and it nearly releases Murphy. But Christensen sticks on his shoulder, between man and ball, allowing Caballero to rush out from the area to clear upfield.
Pedro whips a cross into their box from the Chelsea left. Morata should slide it home, but can’t get his extended leg onto the ball. His confidence is shot. Which is why, in the next Chelsea attack, he tears free down the left but lays off for Willian instead of shooting. Willian hesitates on the penalty spot, in a futile attempt to dummy Gunn, and the chance is gone. Time is running out for Norwich as the board goes up: four minutes.
Kenedy goes off, to great applause. He’s done well tonight, setting up the goal and nutmegging Pinto with an outrageous piece of close control. ♬ Ken-e-dy for them. ♬ “He always uses his quick feet to escape defenders in the middle of the park,” writes Luke Forrester. “That’s why they call it the Kennedy Space Centre.”
All of which leaves us with the last knockings at Stamford Bridge. Unless Norwich can somehow find an equaliser from somewhere. There are five minutes to go. Morata very nearly put the tie to bed, but from close range flashed a header wide left.
FULL TIME: Wigan Athletic 3-0 Bournemouth
A reasonably sized shock, as the League One leaders see off the Premier League strugglers. Wigan host West Ham in the next round.
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FULL TIME: Swansea City 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolves’ wait for their first FA Cup since 1960 goes on. Swansea travel to Notts County in the fourth round.
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Chelsea replace their goalscorer Batshuayi with Morata, while Christensen comes on for Ampadu. Signs that Conte isn’t taking any chances, with his team holding onto their slender lead, but not with any great conviction. Meanwhile Norwich throw the dice by replacing Reed with the imaginative Hoolahan. Eight minutes, plus any stoppages, for the Canaries to save themselves.
Drinkwater has a punt at goal from the best part of 30 yards. Nope. Chelsea might have ended their goal drought, but they’re not looking any more confident as a result. Up the other end, Oliveira has a pop from similar distance. Caballero claims with ease. “Pedro booked for simulation?! That’s what he gets for jumping the Gunn.” Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for Peter Oh. Like many of the punters dependent on the District Line to get home, he’s here all week.
A long hoick upfield, and Kenedy nearly tears clear down the Chelsea left. Fortunately for Norwich, Pinto is wise to what’s going on and snuffs out a potentially decisive attack. ♬ Kenedy, Kenedy, Ken-e-dy. ♬ Meanwhile Kennedy is also for Drew Goldie. “I’ll inject a bit of culture. When he went all punk/etc, Nigel Kennedy, precocious, young and an admittedly brilliant violinist, decided that he wanted to be called Kennedy. I can see why he thought that would work, and in those days (not now, I think, no-one actually cares any more) he worried that the name Nigel was tainted, but sadly the world moved backwards and eventually he reverted to the norm. I’m not going to look it up to tell you which, but he played the National Anthem on the violin in the ring before one of those IBO/WBA/WTF World Title boxing fights that took place in GB a while back. It was ludicrous, a real moment of - Whaaat? Hope things aren’t so dull that this gets a mention, but bless you for being there so that the rest of us don’t have to.”
Things aren’t quite as clear cut at Stamford Bridge. The champions of England may be a goal to the good, but Norwich are asking some serious questions. Reed, cutting in from the left, tees up Maddison on the penalty spot. Maddison looks to slot powerfully into the bottom left, but Caballero spreads himself to save the day for Chelsea. And here’s a measure of Chelsea’s slight desperation: Pedro has been booked for a ludicrously brazen dive, having scampered past a prone and innocent Gunn, chasing a lost cause and throwing himself over some thin air.
GOAL! Wigan Athletic 3-0 Bournemouth (Elder 76)
Aye, that’s surely a home tie against West Ham United secured for the League One leaders. Callum Elder makes it three, and the Latics can party like it’s 2013 all over again.
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GOAL! Wigan Athletic 2-0 Bournemouth (Burn 73)
The Cherries feel the Burn. Dan doubles Wigan’s lead, and the Premier League side are in a lot of trouble now. A shock on the cards.
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A game of pinball in the Chelsea area, set off when Caballero and Azpilicueta confuse each other. Amid the melee, Murphy, to the left of the D, whips a shot towards the bottom right. Luiz just about has the line covered, while the ball crashes off the right-hand post! Norwich hit the woodwork for the second time tonight.
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GOAL! Swansea City 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Bony 69)
... only for Wilfried Bony to almost immediately restore the Swans’ lead!
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GOAL! Swansea City 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Jota 66)
And it’s all happening! Because in rainy south Wales, Diogo Jota brings the Championship leaders level ...
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GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Norwich City (Batshuayi 55)
Finally Chelsea score a goal! And it’s set up by that man Kenedy, who makes room down the left and fires a low and hard cross towards the near post for Batshuayi. The striker can’t miss with a simple sidefoot, and Norwich’s resistance is broken. Altogether now: ♬ Kenedy, Kenedy, Kenedy, Kenedy, Kenedy, Kenedy, Ken-e-dy for me. ♬
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With absolutely nothing of note going on in west London, there’s time for me to mention Kenedy’s (admittedly inconsequential) cameo towards the end of the first half. First, he was caught rolling around the floor with Oliveira, attempting to land a very limp slap on the Norwich striker’s mush. On another day, etc. Then, moments later, from the ridiculous to the sublime, as he nutmegged Pinto with an exquisite dragback and flick, all in one smooth motion. What an all-round entertainer! ♪ ♫ Kenedy for me! ♬
They’re off again at Stamford Bridge, an unchanged Chelsea getting the ball rolling once more. Some midfield ping-pong. The BBC’s on-screen clock is jiggered again. It’s been that sort of night.
No early second-half goals at Wigan or Swansea. We’ll be off again in a minute at Stamford Bridge, where the bollocking being delivered by Antonio Conte will be coming to a rousing climax right about now.
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Let’s not try to sugar-coat it ... that was a fairly miserable half of FA Cup football. Lucky there’s Sid Lowe to put a grin back on your face (with just a little help from a certain Brazilian showman).
HALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Norwich City
Chelsea have now gone three-and-a-half matches without scoring a goal. Norwich look very comfortable.
Kenedy has a pop from distance. It’s not up to much. Up the other end, Murphy swings a cross in from the left but Luiz is behind that all the way. The half-time whistle can’t come soon enough. “I was sort of enjoying the Chelsea match, as I enjoyed my lunchtime cheese sarnie here in New Mexico,” reports Marie Meyer. “But the repeated viewings of the advertising hoardings saying NOTHING IS CERTAIN has cast me into an existential funk.” They should display that slogan on the displays at Fulham Broadway station as well.
HALF TIME: Wigan Athletic 1-0 Bournemouth
The League One leaders are 45 minutes away from a fourth-round home tie against West Ham United.
Chelsea have been poor so far tonight, and Norwich are beginning to sense a potential upset. They’ve certainly grown in confidence, anyway, as their hosts get frustrated. Oliveira sends another shot whistling just over the Chelsea crossbar. Then Murphy is sent scampering into space down the left. He reaches the Chelsea box, and decides to go for goal instead of squaring it for Oliveira. His shot nearly hits the right-hand corner flag. Oliveira isn’t too happy, but Murphy deserved the chance to shoot after making a lung-bothering run.
HALF TIME: Swansea City 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
The Premier League strugglers go in leading, thanks to Ricky Villa tribute act Jordan Ayew.
And now it’s Norwich’s turn to twang the crossbar! Batshuayi plays a dreadful ball across the face of his own area, gifting possession to Oliveira! The Norwich striker takes a touch and sends a looper over the straining Caballero and off the top of the bar! A few Chelsea hearts in mouths there, and that’s woken a sleepy Stamford Bridge up.
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Another free kick for Chelsea to the right of the Norwich D. This time it’s Willian’s turn, after Luiz’s earlier fluffed effort. He lamely sends an effort, meant for the top right, sailing high into the stand.
This Chelsea-Norwich tie isn’t much of a game. Never has switching over to ITV / sitting on a stationary train outside West Brompton seemed so attractive.
Chelsea hit the bar! Drinkwater pearls one from the edge of the box. It’s a beauty of a riser, heading into the top left at some pace. Gunn manages to get his fingertips onto the ball, tipping it onto the crossbar. Zimmermann hooks it away from danger. It was Chelsea’s tenth attempt on goal; Norwich have yet to trouble Caballero in any way.
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Kenedy releases Batshuayi down the left. But the striker can’t beat Gunn from a tight angle, and he’s offside anyway. We’re a quarter of the way into this game, and not a great deal has happened yet, the Azpilcueta near-miss apart. Norwich will be happy enough with the way things are going.
Wigan’s opener was a fine effort, Colclough dancing his way around a rash Fraser challenge down the left, and nearly setting up Grigg in the centre. The ball broke to Morsy, who slotted low and hard into the bottom left from 12 yards, wrong-footing the stranded Boruc cleverly. Meanwhile Jordan Ayew’s goal for Swansea was an FA Cup dribble from the Ricky Villa playbook. The white shirts help.
Luiz sidefoots gently over the net and straight into the hands of Gunn. Not a great effort. Gunn launches long in the direction of Oliveira, who is about to race towards the box with the ball. But Caballero comes out of his area, ushers Oliveira out to the right wing, and then hoicks the ball out of play, allowing his team-mates to catch up with play. Brave goalkeeping, to say the very least.
Willian looks in the mood tonight. He powers down the inside-right channel and is upended by Vrancic, just to the right of the D. This is a free kick in a very dangerous position. Luiz is narrowing his eyes. He fancies it.
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And now Chelsea’s captain Azpilicueta lifts a pass down the inside-left channel to release Willian into the Norwich box. Willian screws a shot across the face of goal, and out on the right. He should have worked Gunn in the Norwich goal at the very least. He probably should have scored.
Those Chelsea nerves didn’t jangle for long. The ever-excellent Azpilicueta spreads a gorgeous left-to-right pass for Willian on the wing. Willian earns a corner, and swings it into the mixer. Bakayoko eyebrows it towards the left-hand post, and Azpilicueta is an inch or so away from toe-poking the ball over the line. If he was half an inch taller.
Chelsea are a wee bit nervous in these early exchanges. Kenedy creams a backpass towards his keeper Caballero, who does very well to trap the fizzing ball. He then rather spoils the effect by returning it towards Kenedy, over the wing-back’s startled head, and into the stand. Rather better for the home side is Drinkwater’s speculative shot from distance, which flies inches wide of the bottom right.
Anyway, Norwich have got the ball rolling at Stamford Bridge. The atmosphere’s a bit hollow and tinny, as you’d expect with the stadium yet to fill with punters. The BBC have yet to fire up their on-screen clock, too, giving the entire evening a lovely old-school ramshackle feel. Nothing much to report in the early stages.
GOAL! Swansea City 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Ayew 11)
Meanwhile at the Liberty, Jordan Ayew keeps the Premier League’s end up, drawing first blood for Carlos Carvalhal’s strugglers against the runaway Championship leaders.
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GOAL! Wigan Athletic 1-0 Bournemouth (Morsy 9)
Sure enough, having announced that nothing was going on, Sam Morsy opens the scoring at the DW for the League One leaders. A shock? Well, let the record state that Wigan have led their Premier League opponents for all but 12 minutes of the 99 they’ve played so far in this tie. It’s on.
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A slow start to the evening’s action. No goals yet at either Swansea or Wigan, and no play at Stamford Bridge. But the teams are finally about to come out on the Fulham Broadway, even if quite a few fans are clearly still stuck on the District Line. A lot of empty seats still. Chelsea will play in blue, Norwich in yellow. The Liquidator blasts out of the PA, and we’ll be off in a minute!
And now Daniel Farke has his say. “Today we are not the favourites, so we can enjoy this game. But we believe in cup competitions. We want to put in a good performance and get the best result we can. January is always a bit annoying: we have lost a key player in Alex Pritchard, who was pretty important for us. But you have to accept that and we have to find some solutions with the other lads. When you face an opponent with such a high individual quality in comparison to us, it is always necessary to create a special plan, and fulfil this plan with a special performance on the pitch. And we will need a bit of luck, and also perhaps Chelsea will not be at their best. We will see!”
A word with Antonio Conte, who is asked whether he’s taking a chance with his line-up, having made nine changes from the side that drew with Leicester City in the Premier League at the weekend. “I don’t know, but for sure we do not have any other way. We are also in the other cup, in the semi-final. I think this is the right way, and I trust my players, every one. We want to win and go to the next round. We are conceding less, but we are not scoring a lot, and for sure we have to improve the quality of our finishing. I am in favour of VAR, it is a good option to solve some strange situations and mistakes. It is right this way.”
The kick-off of the Chelsea-Norwich game has been delayed by 15 minutes due to “difficulties with public transport”. That one won’t be kicking off until 8pm. Huw Edwards, hanging about to read the late news on BBC1, will be cursing the District Line right now.
The teams from the DW Stadium
Wigan Athletic: Jones, Colclough, Dunkley, Bruce, Elder, Perkins, Morsy, Gary Roberts, Power, Massey, Grigg.
Subs: Walton, Byrne, Jacobs, Hunt, Powell, James, Burn.
AFC Bournemouth: Boruc, Fraser, Steve Cook, Simpson, Daniels, Mahoney, Surman, Arter, Pugh, Mousset, Afobe.
Subs: Hyndman, Federici, Ibe, Butcher, Taylor, Hobson, Ndjoli.
Wigan make six changes to the side that came from two goals down at Dean Court. Jamie Jones, Callum Elder, David Perkins, Alex Bruce, Gary Roberts and Ryan Colclough are in; out go Christian Walton, Reece James, Dan Burn, Nathan Byrne, Michael Jacobs and Nick Powell.
Bournemouth make four changes from that match. Jack Simpson, Charlie Daniels, Marc Pugh and Harry Arter step up; they replace Nathan Ake, Brad Smith, Adam Smith and Emerson Hyndman.
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The teams at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea: Caballero, Azpilicueta, Luiz, Ampadu, Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Bakayoko, Kenedy, Willian, Batshuayi, Pedro.
Subs: Kante, Morata, Hazard, Musonda, Christensen, Eduardo, Sterling.
Norwich City: Gunn, Hanley, Zimmermann, Klose, Ivo Pinto, Reed, Vrancic, Lewis, Maddison, Oliveira, Murphy.
Subs: Husband, Hoolahan, Stiepermann, Raggett, Tettey, McGovern, Cantwell.
Chelsea make two changes to the team sent out at Carrow Road a couple of weeks ago. Cesar Azpilicueta and Ethan Ampadu are in the starting XI, Antonio Rudiger and Gary Cahill making way.
Norwich make three changes to their XI that day. Harrison Reed, Mario Vrancic and Nelson Oliveira are in; Tom Trybull and Alex Tetty are out, while Alex Pritchard has upped sticks for Huddersfield.
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The teams at the Liberty Stadium
Swansea City: Nordfeldt, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Roberts, Carroll, Roque, Fer, Narsingh, Bony, Ayew.
Subs: Ki, Britton, Dyer, Clucas, Mulder, Bartley, McBurnie.
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Norris, Roderick Miranda, Batth, Hause, Doherty, White, N’Diaye, Douglas, Helder Costa, Mir, Enobakhare.
Subs: Bennett, Neves, Burgoyne, Coady, Jota, Saiss, Leo Bonatini.
Swansea make six changes to the starting XI sent out at Molineux a couple of Saturdays ago. Kyle Naughton, Alfie Mawson, Tom Carroll, Roque Mesa, Luciano Narsingh and Jordan Ayew step up; Mike van der Hoorn, Martin Olsson, Kyle Bartley, Nathan Dyer, Wayne Routledge and Renato Sanches make way.
Wolves make four changes from that match. In come Danny Batth, Roderick Miranda, Barry Douglas and Rafa Mir; out go Ryan Bennett, Ruben Vinagre, Conor Coady and Leo Bonatini.
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Preamble
Welcome to a special edition of Clockwatch, as the third round of this year’s FA Cup comes to an exciting close. There are three ties yet to be settled ...
Chelsea v Norwich City
Swansea City v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wigan Athletic v Bournemouth
... and they’re all very interesting indeed. Seven-time winners Chelsea will be hot favourites to overcome mid-table Championship concern Norwich, though the Canaries gave them a good game at Carrow Road the other week, and Antonio Conte’s men aren’t exactly in the best of form, coming off the back of three goalless draws in a row. Chelsea usually swat aside their opposition in Stamford Bridge, but there’s always a Bradford City lurking around the corner in the cup, so you never know.
The other two replays are fascinatingly balanced. Wolves haven’t won the cup since 1960, when they beat ten-man Blackburn in a final so mundane they were pelted with half-eaten fruit and scrunched-up pages of the match programme on their lap of honour. But they’re flying high in the Championship now, and will fancy their chances at Premier League strugglers Swansea. Meanwhile the 2013 winners Wigan are on the up again after a couple of dismal seasons. They’re top of League One, and really should have put Bournemouth to the sword in the original match at Dean Court, having been two goals up. A shock isn’t beyond anyone.
All the matches kick off at 7.45pm. Extra time and penalty kicks may be required. It could be one hell of an evening. It’s on!
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