The 3pm kick-off results.
- Blackburn 0-1 Doncaster
- Blackpool 2-2 West Brom (aet; 3-2 pens)
- Bournemouth 4-1 Oldham
- Bristol Rovers 2-3 Sheffield United
- Burnley 1-1 MK Dons (aet; 4-3 pens)
- Exeter 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
- QPR 0-2 Fulham (aet)
- Stevenage 0-2 Swansea
- Stoke 0-4 Leicester
- Wycombe 4-1 Preston
Thanks for reading. See you later for Manchester United v Watford. In the meantime ...
Blackpool beat West Brom 3-2 on pens!
KaiKai has the chance to put Blackpool through, after misses by Edwards and Furlong. He sends the keeper the wrong way ... but his shot clatters off the base of the left-hand post and out! Head in hands. No matter, though, because Pereira’s preposterous stuttering run-up ensures the shock still happens. A dismal easy-to-read effort is snaffled by Maxwell and the 1953 winners are through! Oh Sam.
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Burnley beat MK Dons 4-3 on pens
Bardsley sends the Clarets into the fourth round with the decisive kick.
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EXTRA TIME, FULL TIME: QPR 0-2 Fulham
A tedious match enlivened by a couple of lovely Fulham goals in extra time.
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EXTRA TIME, FULL TIME: Blackpool 2-2 WBA. That draw at Anfield really did take it out of Albion’s players, didn’t it. Another poor performance. Allardyce chewing gum like billy-o. Can the Premier League save themselves in the penalty shoot-out?
EXTRA TIME, FULL TIME: Burnley 1-1 MK Dons. There must be something wrong with the Guardian clock. Batteries cost a few quid, to be fair. It’s going to penalties at Turf Moor.
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We’re six or seven minutes away from full time in extra time at Blackpool and Burnley. The game down at QPR is a few minutes behind, though. Penalties looming in Lancashire.
HALF TIME, EXTRA TIME: QPR 0-2 Fulham. A double whammy just before the break in extra time has surely done for the Hoops.
GOAL! QPR 0-2 Fulham (Kebano 105+3). The ball shuttled across the front of the QPR box, left to right. Kebano lashes home from a tight angle, and that is surely that.
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HALF TIME, EXTRA TIME: Burnley 1-1 MK Dons. It’s the visitors who have come closest to scoring.
HALF TIME, EXTRA TIME: Blackpool 2-2 WBA. The hosts have been giving as good as they’ve been getting. Big Sam continues to chew a wasp.
GOAL! QPR 0-1 Fulham (Decordova-Reid 104). The deadlock is finally broken at Loftus Road, and this is a gem! Decordova-Reid one-twos with Mitrovic down the middle, opens his body, and curls a forensic sidefoot into the bottom right.
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MK Dons midfielder Ben Gladwin is inches away from recreating Ronnie Radford’s famous goal for Hereford against Newcastle in 1972. He whistles an ambitious 30-yard effort towards the top left of the Burnley goal. A smidgen to the right, and it would have been in. As it is, it cannons off the post and away. Ah well. It’s a thin line between a decent effort and FA Cup immortality.
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Not a great deal of action to report from the three matches that have gone to extra time. You come this far, you hunker down.
The 3pm full-times.
- Blackburn 0-1 Doncaster
- Blackpool 2-2 West Brom (ET)
- Bournemouth 4-1 Oldham
- Bristol Rovers 2-3 Sheffield United
- Burnley 1-1 MK Dons (ET)
- Exeter 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
- QPR 0-0 Fulham (ET)
- Stevenage 0-2 Swansea
- Stoke 0-4 Leicester
- Wycombe 4-1 Preston
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Classified check coming up in a second. But for clarity’s sake ... there are three of the 3pm kick-offs going to extra time, and possibly penalties: Blackpool v WBA, Burnley v MK Dons, and QPR v Fulham. More excitement ahoy!
FULL TIME: QPR 0-0 Fulham. So much for tempting fate.
FULL TIME: Bristol Rovers 2-3 Sheffield United. A much-needed win for the Blades.
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FULL TIME: Wycombe 4-1 Preston
Something of a shock, given both sides’ Championship form.
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FULL TIME: Exeter 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday
Yep, three in a row for the visitors.
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FULL TIME: Stevenage 0-2 Swansea
No real drama as the League Two strugglers are clinically dispatched by the high-flying Swans.
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FULL TIME: Blackpool 2-2 WBA. See also the third-tier Seasiders versus the Premier League’s Big Sam.
FULL TIME: Burnley 1-1 MK Dons. And that’s the final gasp of the 90! Burnley save themselves at the death, and this one’s going to extra time.
GOAL! Burnley 1-1 MK Dons (Vydra 90+4). Bardsley is needlessly fouled out on the right. From the free kick, the Clarets save themselves! The ball’s whipped into the mixer, and rammed home by Vydra, sliding in at the right-hand post!
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FULL TIME: Bournemouth 4-1 Oldham
Easy in the end for the home side. Or the away side, depending on how you look at it.
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FULL TIME: Blackburn 0-1 Doncaster
A shock as the League One side see off Championship outfit Rovers.
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FULL TIME: Stoke 0-4 Leicester
Easy for Brendan Rodgers’ men.
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GOAL! Exeter 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday (Paterson 90). It’s going to be three wins on the bounce for previously floundering Wednesday. Penny for the thoughts of Tony Pulis.
Let’s see if we can tempt fate and tease out some last-minute drama in the west London derby between QPR and Fulham. Bugger all has happened in that one.
GOAL! Bournemouth 4-1 Oldham (King 86). A shot not so much belted past but through the keeper. King doesn’t bother celebrating.
GOAL! Wycombe 4-1 Preston (Samuel 82). The 1889 and 1938 winners are toast. Samuel enters the box down the right and slots home calmly in the Buckinghamshire fog.
Stevenage spurn a great chance to get back into it against Swansea. A penalty kick, dispatched towards the bottom left by Norris, but turned around the post brilliantly by Swans keeper Woodman.
GOAL! Blackpool 2-2 WBA (Pereira 80 pen). A lifeline for Big Sam! A cross hits Turton’s arm. Nowhere near his silhouette, and it’s a penalty kick. Pereira lashes it into the bottom right, the keeper guessing correctly but given no chance.
GOAL! Stoke 0-4 Leicester (Barnes 81). This is a rout now. Some pinball in the Stoke area. The ball breaks to Barnes, who slams home from 12 yards.
GOAL! Stoke 0-3 Leicester (Perez 79). Bragging rights in ATVLand confirmed for the Foxes. A lovely move, the ball shuttled in from the right by a couple of blue shirts, then slammed home from the penalty spot by Perez. This is over.
GOAL! Bournemouth 3-1 Oldham (King 74) or Oldham 1-3 Bournemouth (King 74), whichever you prefer. Quite a few headed goals this afternoon. Here’s another!
Still plenty of time to go in the 3pm kick-offs. But there’s a big match kicking off in just under an hour, and the teams contesting it have landed. Barry Glendenning has the details of The Arsenal v Newcastle United.
BREAKING NEWS: Big Sam continues to stomp about the technical area with a face on.
Burke continues to shine against Bristol Rovers. He drives down the left and sends a shot across Day and off the base of the right-hand post. Meanwhile another near miss, this time at Ewood Park, where Blackburn still trail Doncaster. Harvey Elliott has come on, and goes close with a curler towards the top left. Balcombe in the Donny goal fingertips spectacularly, then parries the rebound as well. Magnificent play all round.
GOAL! Blackpool 2-1 WBA (Madine 66). A lovely sweeping move by the 1953 winners, and Big Sam is under pressure again! Lovely combination play between Yates and Madine, and the latter moves into space down the middle before whistling a low shot into the bottom left! Anyone interested in the aforementioned Matthews Final should click below, or perhaps consider this.
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Whatever happens in Bristol, this should serve Sheffield United well. They’ve been so constipated in the Premier League, with just eight goals in 17 matches. This should blow a few cobwebs off, and yes, it’s for the best that I mixed metaphors there.
GOAL! Bristol Rovers 2-3 Sheffield United (Bogle 63). More good work by Burke, followed by a smooth run into the area by Bogle down the inside-right channel. He slots home at the near post, and this is turning into a classic!
GOAL! Bristol Rovers 2-2 Sheffield United (Ehmer 62). A corner from the right. A flick-on at the near post, and Ehmer can’t miss from a couple of yards. Dismal defending. However ...
GOAL! Bristol Rovers 1-2 Sheffield United (Burke 59). The latest jinking genius off the Scottish conveyor belt is sent scampering down the middle. No mistake. He slots home. However...
GOAL! Stoke 0-2 Leicester (Albrighton 59). A lovely goal this, as the ever-underrated Albrighton swans in from the right, drops a shoulder, and whips a lovely curler into the bottom left. Could this be Leicester’s year in the FA Cup at long last? Four losing appearances out of four in the final. It has to happen sometime, surely.
Just in case you’ve been as confused as me ... and if that’s that case, I feel for you ... but the Oldham-Bournemouth tie is being played at the Vitality Stadium, on account of the Boundary Park being frozen. So we’ve been referring to Bournemouth-Oldham as well as Oldham-Bournemouth. No idea what the official line is. I suspect traditionalists will go with the latter, as per the draw, but for clarity I may keep on with the former. In either instance, feel free to sue us.
GOAL! Blackpool 1-1 WBA (Ajayi 52). See Swansea’s second, just there. Easy as that, with the assist going to Big Sam’s Half-Time Hairdryer.
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GOAL! Stevenage 0-2 Swansea (Gyokeres 50). Cross from the right. Header down. In!
GOAL! Oldham 1-2 Bournemouth. (Riquelme 49). A few cute triangles down the right, and Riquelme is on hand to slam home a low cross. Lovely move.
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Second halves underway again, y’all. Remember, extra time and penalties could be coming up. Almost certainly will be, somewhere or other. Here we go, then.
The half-times, then. A very entertaining first 45.
- Blackburn 0-1 Doncaster
- Blackpool 1-0 WBA
- Bournemouth 1-1 Oldham
- Bristol R 1-1 Sheffield U
- Burnley 0-1 MK Dons
- Exeter 0-1 Sheffield W
- QPR 0-0 Fulham
- Stevenage 0-1 Swansea
- Stoke 0-1 Leicester
- Wycombe 3-1 Preston
At Burnley, Richard Keogh is shown the red card when the ball hits his hand as he covers as last man. Has a clear scoring opportunity been denied? Not according to VAR, because Chris Wood, who would otherwise have been sent clear, was offside. Or was Wood in the process of fouling Keogh? Either way, the decision is overturned.
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GOAL! Oldham 1-1 Bournemouth (Bahamboula pen 45). Keillor-Dunn is brought down by Dennis - or was it a dive? It’s soft, put it that way. Bahamboula smashes the gift home.
GOAL! Wycombe 3-1 Preston (Jakobsen pen 43). A lifeline for Preston just before the break, as Allsop rashly brings down Riis. Jakobsen slams the penalty home.
GOAL! Blackburn 0-1 Doncaster (Richards 42). A speculative long-range effort by Richards finds the bottom right, Pears in the Blackburn goal at fault for weak hands.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Oldham (Brooks 43). Not long after nearly going behind, saved by the woodwork, the Cherries take the lead with a deflected long-range effort from Brooks.
GOAL! Blackpool 1-0 WBA (Yates 41). The Seasiders work the ball down the left. A low cross is whistled along the corridor of uncertainty. West Brom’s defence does what it usually does, standing stock still to a man. Yates comes in from the other flank to slam home from close range. On the touchline, Big Sam fumes. He’ll run out of lug-steam soon, the way this season is going. One man can only generate so much. But a shock is on!
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Oldham hit the woodwork against Bournemouth! Barnett drifts in from the left, and curls with purpose towards the top right. The ball caroms off the upright and away. What an effort that was.
Sheffield United have the ball in the Bristol Rovers net, but it’s disallowed. Egan rises to smash a header goalwards. Day parries. Mousset slams home. But Egan is penalised for climbing all over his opponent. BREAKING NEWS: On BT Sport, Peter Walton agrees with the referee’s decision. To be fair, it is the correct outcome, but you get the wider point.
WHAT A GOAL! Stoke 0-1 Leicester (Justin 34). James Justin cuts in from the left, beats two Stoke players, then curls a vicious shot into the top-right bin. Slightly surprised that the net, plus the entire frame of the goal, isn’t currently flying over the Stanley Matthews statue. That was one hell of a strike. And to think some were worried about missing Ben Chilwell.
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It could be one of those days for Burnley. They should equalise in short order, but somehow Tarkowski manages to hit the post from a couple of yards. What a miss!
GOAL! Burnley 0-1 MK Dons (Jerome 29). The ball sent in from the left. A couple of flick-ons, and then Jerome sends a Houchenesque diving header back across goal and into the bottom left! A shock on here, as the mid-table League One franchise lead the Premier League club.
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GOAL! Exeter 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday (Reach 27). A lovely goal this, lashed into the net with Van Bastenesque confidence from a tight angle on the right by Reach. Wednesday are suddenly enjoying a rich vein of form under caretaker Neil Thompson.
GOAL! Wycombe 3-0 Preston (Knight 25). A shock developing, of sorts, between these two Championship sides. A free kick sent out right is hoicked back into the six-yard box. Knight extends a telescopic leg to guide home from close range. This is over.
There are going to be a lot of matches going to extra time at this rate. A reminder that there are no replays this season. Straight to extra time then penalties if needs be. Ah, the days of the multiple replay. There’s one of those old-school marathons in this JoS, which admittedly is mainly worth reading for an on-form Smyth wading in below the line throwing hands. Those were the days.
GOAL! Bristol Rovers 1-1 Sheffield United (Kilgour 21). There are two divisions between Rovers and United, but the scoreline is level at the Memorial Stadium. A deep right-wing cross is met by Kilgour, who rises regally and plants a glorious header into the top left. Keeper no chance! That is a lovely finish.
Ah the magic of the long third-round lull. Don’t shoot the messenger.
GOAL! Wycombe 2-0 Preston (Jacobson 9 pen). Ikpeazu is bundled over by a small pocket of air, or maybe the nearby Earl. It’s soft, but it’s given. Jacobson lashes it down the middle, and Wycombe have wandered out of the blocks at Olympic pace.
GOAL! Stevenage 0-1 Swansea (Routledge 7). The second successful downward header of the afternoon, and the Swans take the lead against the League Two strugglers.
GOAL! Bristol Rovers 0-1 Sheffield United (Day og 6). Osborn crosses dangerously from the left. Mousset rises and slams a header off the crossbar. The ball drops down and twangs off the back of the unfortunate Rovers keeper Day, who was sprawling mid-dive. That’s unfortunate for poor Day, but the cross and header deserved reward.
GOAL! Wycombe 1-0 Preston (Onyedinma 3). The first goal of the 3pms didn’t take long. A right-wing cross slung into the Preston box; Fred Onyedinma rises at the far post and heads back across goal and into the bottom right. What a start for the Championship’s bottom side against 12th-placed Preston.
Burnley have flown out of the box. A ball whipped into the Franchise FC box from the left; Chris Wood has his header tipped over after a mere 23 seconds.
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As we prepare for the 3pms, then, a reminder of all the early results:
- Boreham Wood 0-2 Millwall
- Everton 2-1 Rotherham United (after ET; 1-1 FT)
- Luton Town 1-0 Reading
- Norwich City 2-0 Coventry City
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff City
- Chorley 2-0 Derby County
Anything spring out at you there? Seeing we’re under no obligation to get the pom-poms out and cheerlead for the FA, the answer is surely no. Not that we’re resorting to that tiresome old jaded-contrarian schtick; it’s just that a lot of the participants really could do with Concentrating On The League in this concertinaed campaign for one reason or another. Of the 20 teams in action, five are making serious promotion pushes (Blackburn, Doncaster, Bournemouth, Swansea, Stoke); one has legitimate Premier League ambitions (Leicester); and ten are looking over their shoulders, sweating like someone who might have just blown his chances of getting his presidential pension (West Brom, Bristol Rovers, Sheffield United, Burnley, MK Dons, Sheffield Wednesday, QPR, Fulham, Stevenage and Wycombe). But on the flip side, there are no replays this season, so teams may go hell for leather anyway. Entertainment ahoy? Ach, why not. Entertainment ahoy!
Good old Bob, eh kids? He’s already furnished you with the team news of all the upcoming kick-offs, but here’s an almost certainly redundant reminder of the 3pm fixture list, just in case, or for the record, or whatever.
- Blackburn v Doncaster
- Blackpool v West Brom
- Bristol Rovers v Sheffield United
- Burnley v MK Dons
- Exeter v Sheffield Wednesday
- Oldham v Bournemouth
- QPR v Fulham
- Stevenage v Swansea
- Stoke v Leicester
- Wycombe v Preston
That’s it for the lunchtime games. Time for me to hand over to Scott Murray for the 3pm matches. Bye!
Wycombe v Preston North End team news
Wycombe Allsop, McCarthy, Tafazolli, Knight, Jacobson, Wheeler, Adeniran, Bloomfield, Onyedinma, Ikpeazu, Muskwe. Subs: Grimmer, Gape, Kashket, Horgan, Akinfenwa, Charles, Samuel, Stockdale, Mehmeti.
Preston North End Ripley, Rafferty, Storey, Hughes, Earl, Ledson, Molumby, Jakobsen, Bayliss, Potts, Stockley. Subs: Holland-Wilkinson, Fisher, Browne, Huntington, Maguire, Hudson, O’Reilly, Walker.
Referee Matthew Donohue (Lancashire)
Exeter v Sheff Wed team news
Exeter Ward, Key, Parkes, Caprice, McArdle, Page, Taylor, Collins, Randall, Bowman, Jay. Subs: Sparkes, Atangana, Law, Seymour, Fisher, Maxted, Ajose, Kite, Hartridge.
Sheff Wed Wildsmith, Odubajo, Shaw, Brennan, Galvin, Bannan, Pelupessy, Hunt, Reach, Paterson, Harris. Subs: Dele-Bashiru, Render, Eratt-Thompson, Rice.
Referee Dean Whitestone (Northamptonshire)
Full time: Everton 2-1 Rotherham Everton are through to the fourth round. It was hard work against an impressive Rotherham, who were the better team in normal time. But Everton flexed their Premier League muscles in extra time and won the match with a good goal from the substitute Abdoulaye Doucoure.
“Afternoon Scott,” says Simon McMahon. “The KLF should sponsor the Premier League. Burning a million pounds is a weekly routine for most clubs. And maybe a symbolic dead sheep in one of the pundits chairs in the Soccer Saturday studio?”
Here’s more on Chorley’s historic victory
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Bristol Rovers v Sheff Utd team news
Bristol Rovers Day, Ehmer, Kilgour, Baldwin, Leahy, Westbrooke, Upson, McCormick, Oztumer, Hanlan, Ayunga. Subs: van Stappershoef, Little, Grant, Kelly, Hargreaves, Harries, Rodman, Barrett, Koiki.
Sheff Utd Ramsdale, Basham, Egan, Ampadu, Bogle, Lundstram, Norwood, Fleck, Osborn, McGoldrick, Mousset. Subs: Sharp, Lowe, Burke, Jagielka, Verrips, Brewster, Bryan, Gordon.
Referee Keith Stroud (Hampshire)
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Blackpool v West Brom team news
Blackpool Maxwell, Turton, Gretarsson, Ballard, Husband, Kemp, Ward, Dougall, Lubala, Madine, Yates. Subs: Lawrence-Gabriel, Thorniley, Robson, KaiKai, Sims, Mitchell, Virtue, Ekpiteta, Woodburn.
West Brom Button, Peltier, Ivanovic, Bartley, Gibbs, Ajayi, Krovinovic, Livermore, Gallagher, Grosicki, Matheus Pereira. Subs: Lonergan, Furlong, Harper, Sawyers, Edwards, Kipre, O’Shea, Harmon, Richards.
Referee John Brooks (Leicestershire)
Everton 2-1 Rotherham Seven minutes remaining at Goodison. Rotherham are having a decent spell, their best in extra time, but Everton still lead.
Burnley v MK Dons team news
Burnley Norris, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Gudmundsson, Cork, Stephens, Brady, Barnes, Wood. Subs: Pope, Lowton, Vydra, Mancini, Thomas, Benson, Driscoll-Glennon, Mumbongo, Nartey.
MK Dons Nicholls, Poole, Keogh, Lewington, Williams, Gladwin, Fraser, Sorensen, Harvie, Stephen Walker, Jerome. Subs: Laird, Fisher, Mason, Davies, Sorinola, Jallow, Bailey, Johnson, Denholm.
Referee Jonathan Moss (County Durham)
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Stoke v Leicester team news
Stoke Bursik, Shawcross, Souttar, Batth, Smith, Allen, Clucas, Mikel, McClean, Brown, Vokes. Subs: Matondo, Lindsay, Ince, Oakley-Boothe, Verlinden, Cousins, Thompson, Collins, Nna Noukeu.
Leicester Schmeichel, Justin, Evans, Fofana, Castagne, Barnes, Tielemans, Ndidi, Praet, Albrighton, Perez. Subs: Soyuncu, Morgan, Ward, Iheanacho, Amartey, Choudhury, Mendy, Fuchs, Thomas.
Referee Tony Harrington (Cleveland)
Oldham v AFC Bournemouth team news
Oldham Lawlor, Clarke, Piergianni, Diarra, Barnett, McCalmont, Ntambwe, Hamer, Keillor-Dunn, Garrity, Bahamboula. Subs: Jombati, Whelan, Fage, Jameson, McAleny, Dearnley, Badan, Luamba, Bilboe.
AFC Bournemouth Dennis, Stacey, Carter-Vickers, Simpson, Zemura, Kilkenny, Gosling, Billing, Brooks, King, Riquelme. Subs: Begovic, Steve Cook, Lerma, Surridge, Smith, Lewis Cook, Rico, Anthony.
Referee Andy Woolmer (Northamptonshire)
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QPR v Fulham team news
QPR Dieng, Kane, Dickie, Cameron, Barbet, Bonne, Chair, Ball, Carroll, Dykes, Samuel. Subs: Thomas, Willock, Masterson, Hamalainen, Bettache, Kelman, Barnes, Adomah.
Fulham Rodak, Aina, Ream, Kongolo, Tete, Reed, Loftus-Cheek, Bryan, Onomah, Ivan Cavaleiro, Mitrovic. Subs: Hector, Odoi, Kebano, Reid, Adarabioyo, Ramirez, Robinson, Carvalho, Jasper.
Referee Simon Hooper (Wiltshire)
Everton 2-1 Rotherham There’s another long break in play. This time Yerry Mina is down after being elbowed in the face by George Hirst. Mina is conscious and having his head bandaged; Hirst was booked.
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“Re: the main photo of Matthew Olosunde scoring - gosh, that really is an example of hyper-extension,” says Bill Hargreaves. “See the man’s knee.”
No thanks!
Stevenage v Swansea team news
Stevenage Cumming, Wildin, Vancooten, Cuthbert, Coker, Lines, Smith, Read, Pett, Carter, Newton. Subs: Norris, Vincelot, Prosser, Marsh, Johnson, List, Marshall, Aitchison, Oteh.
Swansea Woodman, Cabango, Evans, Fulton, Naughton, Byers, Garrick, Manning, Dhanda, Routledge, Gyokeres. Subs: Guehi, Smith, Grimes, Lowe, Cullen, Bidwell, Cooper, Williams, Webb.
Referee Michael Salisbury (Lancashire)
Half time in extra time: Everton 2-1 Rotherham There was a long break in play when Angus MacDonald fell face first after colliding with another Rotherham defender and Cenk Tosun as they challenged for a cross. It looked pretty worrying at first, but he is on his feet and is going to continue.
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Blackburn v Doncaster team news
Blackburn Pears, Buckley, Lenihan, Johnson, Bell, Trybull, Travis, Downing, Dack, Dolan, Brereton. Subs: Kaminski, Armstrong, Rothwell, Gallagher, Douglas, Elliott, Davenport, Grayson, Pike.
Doncaster Balcombe, Halliday, Anderson, Wright, Butler, John, James, Simoes, Richards, Okenabirhie, John-Jules. Subs: Lokilo, Jones, Amos, Williams, Coppinger, Blythe, Ravenhill.
Referee Sam Barrott (West Yorkshire)
All the early ties are over except Everton v Rotherham, which has gone to extra time. Everton lead 2-1 with a couple of minutes remaining in the first period.
- Boreham Wood 0-2 Millwall
- Everton 2-1 Rotherham United (ET being played)
- Luton Town 1-0 Reading
- Norwich 2-0 Coventry
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff
- Chorley 2-0 Derby County
Full time: Chorley 2-0 Derby
National League North side Chorley are into the last 32 after a relatively comfortable win over Derby’s teenagers.
Everton 2-1 Rotherham: Bernard hits the post! Everton are well on top now. The substitute Niles Nkounkou’s cross was only half cleared to Bernard, whose first-time shot on the run slapped off the post.
Full time: Nottm Forest 1-0 Cardiff Lyle Taylor’s classy third-minute volley has put Forest into the hat for the fourth-round draw, which will be live on Radio 2 at lunchtime on Monday.
GOAL! Everton 2-1 Rotherham (Doucoure 93)
The substitute Abdoulaye Doucoure has put Everton into the lead, finishing calmly from the edge of the area after a lovely through pass from James Rodriguez. VAR has a look but there’s nothing wrong with the goal. Everton are in front!
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There’s been another goal at Chorley. Is it on? It’s on!
Full time: Luton 1-0 Reading George Moncur’s first-half goal was enough to see off Reading.
Full time: Boreham Wood 0-2 Millwall A comfortable afternoon for Millwall, who dominated throughout.
Full time: Everton 1-1 Rotherham There will be extra-time at Goodison.
Full time: Norwich 2-0 Coventry Two early goals from Kenny McLean and Jordan Hugill have Norwich into the last 32.
Chorley still lead Derby 1-0 at Victory Park. Barry Glendenning has his hooks tentered.
Everton 1-1 Rotherham They’re into the final minute of added time at Goodison Park. It looks like this intriguing match is going to extra-time.
Everton 1-1 Rotherham Cenk Tosun has had a goal disallowed for offside. He poked James Rodriguez’s free-kick into the net, but VAR had the final say. It usually does.
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Everton 1-1 Rotherham Everton have improved since Carlo Ancelotti made all those substitutions, but they are still susceptible to a late sting. So much for the easy home win that most of us expected.
GOAL! Boreham Wood 0-2 Millwall (Hutchinson 74) Millwall have been much the better team and Shaun Hutchinson’s goal should secure a place in the fourth round.
With around 20 minutes remaining in the midday kick-offs, these are the latest scores.
- Boreham Wood 0-1 Millwall
- Everton 1-1 Rotherham United
- Luton Town 1-0 Reading
- Norwich 2-0 Coventry
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff
- Chorley 1-0 Derby County (12.15pm)
SPL The match between Dundee United and St Johnstone is off because of a frozen (bit of the) pitch.
Everton 1-1 Rotherham Yerry Mina and Gylfi Sigurdsson are on now, with Lucas Digne and Tom Davies doing one.
Everton 1-1 Rotherham Bernard and Abdoulaye Doucoure have come on for Everton in place of Anthony Gordon and Alex Iwobi. I’d love to hear Carlo Ancelotti’s internal monologue right now.
“It’s past 2am in New Zealand,” says Everton fan Oliver Robinson. “I thought it would be worth staying up to watch the lads hopefully get an easy win against lower-league opposition (and the FA Cup’s always a good time to watch isn’t it?). Instead we’ve given up a goal to a man with no number or name on his shirt. It’s worked out well.”
He’s got no number on his back? I love that some of the readers are able to see the game, and I’m not.
There are no replays in the third round, though drawn matches will go extra-time and then penalties.
GOAL! Everton 1-1 Rotherham (Olosunde 56)
Hello! Matthew Olosunde has squeezed in a deserved equaliser for Rotherham at Goodison Park, and a big shock could be on. It’s Olosunde’s first goal for Rotherham. Who says romance is etc?
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“Now that my personal interest in the third round has been sorted out (during last night’s weirdly entertaining match between a handful of school children and a selection of the Best Male Footballers In The World 2020), I can enjoy a stress-free day of checking results,” says Matt Dony. “In celebration of the KLF making music available on streaming platforms, I’ll be supporting any team in the (Grim Up) North. And finding yet more ways to imagine it’s still the 90s.”
Mmmm-hmmmm-hmmmm-yeah. Mmmmm-hmmmm-hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Everton 1-0 Rotherham It’s still all Rotherham at Goodison Park. It’s not quite Telford 1985 or Woking 1991 - Rotherham are a Championship side - but Everton are being given a bit of a scare.
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Peep peep! The second halves are underway. Everton were out early, which suggests Carlo Ancelotti has access to a hairdryer.
Chorley 1-0 Derby is the half-time score at Victory Park. I don’t know what it is, but it’s on!
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Some more half-time reading
Half-time reading
“At Rossett Road a little girl can shout and be heard.” @frankcottrell_b’s story about his local football club, #Marine, facing Jose Mourinho tomorrow, starts with a doting-dad anecdote and ends up reprising his #London2012 opening ceremony https://t.co/AA6NB2ZaPO
— Tim de Lisle (@TimdeLisle) January 9, 2021
It’s half-time in the midday kick-offs. If you don’t want to know the scores, bloody well log off this instant.
- Boreham Wood 0-1 Millwall
- Everton 1-0 Rotherham United
- Luton Town 1-0 Reading
- Norwich 2-0 Coventry
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff
“Evening Rob,” says Phil Withall. “I believe you have violated rule 7 subsection 3b, of the football reporter’s code. This clearly states that Derby are no longer a team named after a city but are a team named after a manager. Simply not good enough...”
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but in the interests of world peace, I have tendered my resignation forthwith.
There are ten more FA Cup ties kicking off at 3pm.
- Blackburn v Doncaster
- Blackpool v West Brom
- Bristol Rovers v Sheffield United
- Burnley v MK Dons
- Exeter v Sheffield Wednesday
- Oldham v Bournemouth
- QPR v Fulham
- Stevenage v Swansea
- Stoke v Leicester
- Wycombe v Preston
The latest scores
- Boreham Wood 0-1 Millwall
- Everton 1-0 Rotherham United
- Luton Town 1-0 Reading
- Norwich 2-0 Coventry
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff
- Chorley 1-0 Derby County (12.15pm)
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Everton 1-0 Rotherham It’s been a very good 10 minutes for Rotherham, who are putting Everton under all sorts of pressure. At least that’s what it says here.
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff I’ve just seen Lyle Taylor’s early goal. It was a beautiful volley, sidefooted into the roof of the net after a quick adjustment of his feet.
GOAL! Luton 1-0 Reading (Moncur 30) It’s there!
GOAL! Boreham Wood 0-1 Millwall (Zohore 31) It’s also there!
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League Two Scunthorpe v Bradford has been postponed because of a frozen pitch. I don’t know what else to tell you.
GOAL! Chorley 1-0 Derby (Hall 10) The National League North side have taken the lead at Victory Park! Connor Hall has put them in front with a close-range finish after a game of head tennis in the Derby area. What a moment for Chorley! Drink it in with Barry Glendenning.
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Everton 1-0 Rotherham Robin Olsen has made a fine double save to keep Everton in front at Goodison Park.
Anyone out there? If so, I hope you’re all well. It’s feels weird to type that and mean it.
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And here are six FA Cup third-round wrong’uns
While we wait for more goals, why not let my serotonin twin Scott Murray talk you through six classic third-round ties.
Chorley 0-0 Derby Almost a very early goal, and a farcical one to boot, at Chorley.
The latest scores
- Boreham Wood 0-0 Millwall
- Everton 1-0 Rotherham United
- Luton Town 0-0 Reading
- Norwich 2-0 Coventry
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff
- Chorley 0-0 Derby County (12.15pm)
GOAL! Everton 1-0 Rotherham (Tosun 9) Anthony Gordon does very well to set up Cenk Tosun, who coolly chips the ball over the outrushing goalkeeper. That’s his first goal for Everton since November 2019.
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GOALS PLURAL! Norwich 2-0 Coventry (McLean 6, Hugill 7) Well that escalated quickly.
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Everton 0-0 Rotherham Carlo Ancelotti has picked a strong side, which includes James Rodriguez and Lucas Digne, and Everton have made a fast start.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff (Taylor 3) Lyle Taylor has scored the first goal of the day, putting Forest ahead in the all-Championship match at the City Ground.
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Chorley v Derby is the televised game this lunchtime. Barry Glendenning’s hands are all over that one.
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A bit of pre-match reading
Preamble
Hello and welcome to live coverage of today’s FA Cup third round marathon: 20 games from lunch till dusk. At Guardian Towers we’re all wearing our MTFACGA baseball caps, even though deep down we know it’s a futile exercise. The FA Cup will never regain its old lustre, because that relied on a purity that can’t exist in a world of unapologetic avarice. But it still refreshes the parts other competitions - even the Premier League and the Champions League - cannot reach. (Where else can you lose 4-1 at home and still cover yourselves in glory?)
Tomorrow’s match between Marine and Spurs registers a perfect 10.0 on the romanceo’thecupometer. While a shock in that match is nigh-on impossible, we know that, at some stage this weekend, David will land a decisive blow on Goliath’s confused, entitled coupon. And when it does, just for a wee while, the world will feel like a better place.
A full list of today’s fixtures can be found here. For now, we’ll be concentrating on the midday kick-offs:
- Boreham Wood v Millwall
- Everton v Rotherham United
- Luton Town v Reading
- Norwich v Coventry
- Nottingham Forest v Cardiff
- Chorley v Derby County (12.15pm)
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