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Key occasions
Chelsea 2-0 Morecambe. Felix goes near getting a Chelsea third as he curls an effort from the sting of the field simply over the bar.
Norwich 0-2 Brighton. Minteh ought to make it 3-0 to the guests as he will get by means of one-on-one however overruns it and permits George Lengthy to collect simply.
Aim! Chelsea 2-0 Morecambe (Nkunku 50)
All a bit too simple. Nkunku will get his thirteenth objective of the season as Marc Cucurella will get to the byline and pulls it again, Chelsea’s preliminary effort is saved however after lacking from the spot earlier, this time the Frenchman converts.
I missed the final objective in Leicester’s thumping win over QPR. Wout Faes made it 6-2 with strike deep into added time.
Aim! Bournemouth 4-1 West Brom (Semenyo 47)
David Brooks is operating this recreation. This time he performs in Antoine Semenyo and once more it’s a wonderful end, fired excessive into the online from the right-hand facet of the field.
Peeeep!
We’re again underway!
Justin Madson is taking part in VAR as a result of the Stockley Park lads have a time off at the moment. he writes in:
It was famous that Harry Burgoyne stepped off his line early and will have been retaken. Large miss by the referees.
Thanks Justin, you is likely to be in a really slender band of people that assume so, however not since you’re incorrect.
A observe up on US pharmaceutical adverts (I like the course these blogs go in). Eric Peterson writes in:
Good morning from Pittsburgh! Vastly underrated leisure these one minute TV pharma adverts. Seven seconds of “ask your physician about…” (as a result of you may’t particularly inform the shopper to purchase your drug), and 53 seconds of the legally mandated checklist of completely each facet impact the drug might trigger, satirically underscored by soothing music and glad photographs of household time or picnics or romantic dinners or the like. Spectacular.
Sounds ridiculous, however but baffling frequent.
Only a observe to say we’ve not had any updates from the League Two matches as a result of they aren’t occurring. Wimbledon v Cheltenham fell foul of a frozen pitch and Swindon v Crewe has been suspended resulting from visibility points on the County Floor.
Fa Cup third spherical: half-time scores
Bournemouth 3-1 West Brom
Brentford 0-0 Plymouth Argyle
Chelsea 1-0 Morecambe
Exeter Metropolis 2-1 Oxford
Norwich 0-2 Brighton
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Luton
Studying 0-0 Burnley
Sunderland 0-1 Stoke
Aim! Bournemouth 3-1 West Brom (Ouattara 44)
Scientific from Ouattara to make it 3-1, as he steps on to Brooks’ well-timed go to fit previous Joe Wildsmith.
Aim! Norwich 0-2 Brighton (Rutter 45+2)
That’s a sore one for Rutter however when he will get his half-time cup of tea he’ll have the ability to take pleasure in it. Yankuba Minteh slides within the ahead and he fires dwelling from a decent angle. The Frenchman is injured as he follows by means of appears OK after a little bit of remedy.
Aim! Exeter Metropolis 2-1 Oxford (Mitchell 40)
Properly, nicely, nicely. Did somebody say FA Cup shock? (I’m undecided this counts).
Aim! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Luton (Yates 40)
Ryan Yates occasions his run completely to get on the tip of Sosa’s cross and the impasse is damaged.
Aim! Chelsea 1-0 Morecambe (Adarabioyo 39)
Tosin Adarabioyo is the unlikely first goalscorer and that’s dreadfully unfortunate for the Morecambe keeper. Burgoyne appears to be attending to Tosin’s unremarkable shot from outdoors of the field nevertheless it takes a depraved deflection and bobbles in. Morecambe have been holding put fairly comfortably, now not.
Aim! Norwich 0-1 Brighton (Rutter 37)
This has been coming. After an early interval the place Norwich threatened, Brighton had taken management of this tie and have deserved lead by means of Georginio Rutter. The Frenchman will get up nicely to move dwelling Joel Veltman’s cross from the best. Nervy Seagulls (me), can breathe a bit simpler.
Bournemouth 2-1 West Brom (Ouattara 34)
Kluivert turns supplier, with Bournemouth rewarded for some affected person buildup when Dango Ouattara is discovered with a intelligent reverse ball into the field and the Cherries frontman finds the online from a decent angle.
Chelsea 0-0 Morecambe. It’s nonetheless all sq. on the Bridge, the perfect hope of a objective at both finish has been with bushy moments from the goalkeepers. For Morecambe, Burgoyne has been busy and made a few actually good stops, the newest from a low Felix drive, however he’s additionally seemed shaky with the ball at his toes. Jörgensen has been a bit extra adventurous and on a few events virtually coughed the ball as much as Morecambe.
Aim! Bournemouth 1-1 West Brom (Kluivert 27)
Fantastic cross from David Brooks on the Bournemouth proper goes all the best way throughout the West Brom field and Justin Kluivert does rather well to delicately information his one-touch end dwelling below the crossbar. All concerning the ball from Brooks that objective, pure hall of uncertainty stuff.
Aim! Leicester 5-2 QPR (Justin 63)
The goal-fest on the King Energy certainly has been settled now. Who had a James Justin brace on their bingo card? Patson Daka, who changed Vardy, finds the full-back 12 yards out and Justin does the remainder.
Aim! Exeter 1-1 Oxford (Mitchell 22)
The League One facet have an equaliser by way of Demetri Mitchell.
Penalty saved! Chelsea 0-0 Morecambe (17)
Joao Felix retrieves a nook and tries to dink it again however Yann Songo’o, who appears like he’s making an attempt to dam a rugby union drop kick, blatantly handles. Christopher Nkunku smacks his spot kick to the keeper’s proper however Harry Burgoyne makes an excellent save to maintain it at 0-0.
Aim! Exeter 0-1 Oxford (Phillips 14)
Dane Scarlett leads a quick break and feeds Matt Phillips to fireside dwelling a left-footed shot from the center of the field.
Aim! Bournemouth 0-1 West Brom (Taylor 14)
Caleb Taylor, who has simply been recalled from a mortgage spell at Wycombe, will get to a rebound from John Swift’s free-kick and provides the manager-less Championship facet a shock lead.
Aim! Leicester 4-2 QPR (Vardy 51, pen)
Mavididi is vying with Buonanotte for this MOTM trophy. The winger’s cross hits Harrison Ashby’s arm to earn his facet a penalty, little doubt there. Vardy ship the keeper the incorrect method from the spot.
Chelsea 0-0 Morecambe. Ben Tollitt assessments Filip Jörgensen within the Chelsea objective after some direct play from the League Two facet. The Blues keeper didn’t collect it cleanly however the shot must have been a bit extra depraved to go in from that angle, vast of the best hand facet of the six-yard field.
Aim! Sunderland 0-1 Stoke (Cannon 4)
Do we’ve got an early shock? As a lot as a Championship facet beating one other facet in the identical division could be a shock, the Black Cats are flying and Stoke, frankly, are usually not. Anyway Lewis Koumas drew a foul and Tom Cannon converts with a cool effort down the center.
Peeeeeeeeep!
We’re underway within the 3pm kick-offs!
Joe Pearson writes in (presumably from the US):
Hello Tom! Anyone within the US would recognise the Magic music because the soundtrack of Ozempic commercials, the diabetes drug that’s now extensively used for weight reduction. Thanks for sticking it again in our heads.
That may be a fantastic discovery for me. US pharmaceutical adverts are baffling to Europeans however that’s an unbelievable music choice… ‘It’s arduous to imagine I’m eight stone’.
It’s almost full-blown ‘magic’ time. We’re 5 minutes away from kick-off within the 3pm kick-offs.
Half-time: Leicester 3-2 QPR
5 targets and loads of leisure on the King Energy. Leicester needs to be out of sight however appear hell bent on making this a recreation with some woeful focus on the again.
Aim! Leicester 3-2 QPR (Kolli 45+2)
Recreation again on! QPR profit from extra sloppy Leicester defending and the guests again in it on the stroke of half time. Kolli, who has been busy all half, pounces on a unfastened ball from Harry Winks and surges into the field earlier than making a tough end look simple by slotting previous Stolarczyk.
Crew information: Studying v Burnley
Studying: Button, Abrefa, Dean, Bindon, Kanu, Savage, Wing, Rushesha, Knibbs, Smith, Wareham.
Subs: Pereira, Holzman, Senga-Ngoyi, Stickland, Ahmed, Wellens, Sackey, Borgnis, Osho.
Burnley: Hladky, Sonne, Worrall, Egan, Lucas Pires, Bauress, McDermott, Koleosho, Barnes, Foster, Rodriguez.
Subs: Inexperienced, Humphreys, Ekdal, Flemming, Laurent, Ndayishimiye, Delcroix, Veevers, Tweedy.
Aim! Leicester 3-1 QPR (Buonanotte 38)
Buonanotte has been the perfect participant on the pitch and will get his objective from a transfer he begins. Selecting it up in midfield, the Argentine No. 10 sweeps it vast to El Khannouss who hangs up an inviting cross for Buonanotte to move dwelling.
Aim! Leicester 2-1 QPR (Mavididi 35)
QPR proper again Harrison Ashby tries to chop inside Stephy Mavididi and has the ball nicked off him. Bilal El Khannouss picks it up and drives into the Hoops’ field earlier than flicking it off to Mavididi place it dwelling from the penalty spot.
Crew information: Exeter v Oxford
Exeter: Whitworth, Fitzwater, Crama, Yfeko, McMillan, Jake Richards, Woods, Harper, Watts, Mitchell, Magennis.
Subs: MacDonald, Francis, Aitchison, Alli, Niskanen, Jones, Doyle, McDonald, Chicken.
Oxford: Ingram, ter Avest, Lengthy, Thorniley, Leigh, Sibley, McEachran, Phillips, El Mizouni, Dembele, Scarlett.
Subs: Cumming, Brown, Vaulks, Placheta, Matos, Goodrham, Rodrigues, Ferdinan, Kioso.
Crew information: Brentford v Plymouth
Brentford: Valdimarsson, Roerslev, Kim, van den Berg, Henry, Jensen, Maghoma, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard, Carvalho, Schade.
Subs: Flekken, Wissa, Mbeumo, Meghoma, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Konak, Yogane, Arthur.
Plymouth: Hazard, Palsson, Pleguezuelo, Galloway, Sorinola, Randell, Wright, Mumba, Whittaker, Baidoo, Roberts.
Subs: Grimshaw, Ogbeta, Szucs, Cissoko, Bundu, Puchacz, Gyabi, Al Hajj, Issaka.
Leicester 1-1 QPR. Jamie Vardy misses an enormous probability to place the Foxes again in entrance, once more Buonanotte is the creator. QPR then go up the opposite finish and Rayan Kolli fires simply over after Stolarczyk’s duff clearance.
Crew information: Norwich v Brighton
Norwich: Lengthy, Stacey, Cordoba, Doyle, Chrisene, Forson, McLean, Nunez, Schwartau, Dobbin, Crnac.
Subs: Gunn, Duffy, Hills, Mahovo, Fisher, Gordon, Hernandez, Myles, Sargent.
Brighton: Steele, Veltman, Webster, Van Hecke, Estupinan, Ayari, Baleba, Minteh, Enciso, Mitoma, Rutter
Subs: Verbruggen, March, Gruda, Adingra, Moder, Welbeck, O’Riley, McConville, Turns
Crew information: Sunderland v Stoke
Sunderland: Moore, Hume, O’Nien, Hjelde, Alese, Jones, Neil, Mayenda, Rigg, Aouchiche, Connolly.
Subs: Nna Noukeu, Rusyn, Bellingham, Isidor, Abdul Samed, Mepham, Aleksic, Johnson, Ogunsuyi.
Stoke: Johansson, Tchamadeu, Phillips, Wilmot, Stevens, Seko, Burger, Moran, Baker, Koumas, Cannon.
Subs: Bonham, Rose, Lawal, Gooch, Sidibe, Bae, Andre Vidigal, Tezgel, Ennis.
Aim! Leicester 1-1 QPR (Varane 18)
Ilias Chair is the primary QPR participant to check Jakub Stolarczyk, who saves nicely, however the Leicester keeper can’t do something about Jonathan Varane’s effort. QPR had turned up the warmth within the earlier 5 minutes or so and after Harry Winks didn’t clear, Varane gathered the ball and slammed it low and into the underside nook from all of 25 yards.
Crew information: Nottingham Forest v Luton
Nottingham Forest: Carlos Miguel, Toffolo, Boly, Morato, Alex, Moreira, Ward-Prowse, Jota Silva, Yates, Sosa, Awoniyi.
Subs: Sels, Anderson, Wooden, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Elanga, Danilo, Milenkovic, Abbott.
Luton: Kaminski, Walters, Holmes, McGuinness, Bell, Nakamba, Walsh, Jones, Dabo, Nelson, Morris.
Subs: Krul, Andersen, Krauss, Woodrow, Adebayo, Mpanzu, Clark, Brown, Hashioka.
Crew information: Chelsea v Morecambe
Chelsea: Jorgensen, James, Adarabioyo, Disasi, Veiga, Lavia, Pedro Neto, Nkunku, Joao Felix, George, Guiu.
Subs: Sanchez, Colwill, Acheampong, Gusto, Cucurella, Fernandez, Palmer, Sancho, Jackson.
Morecambe: Burgoyne, Hendrie, Williams, Stott, Tutonda, White, Jones, Tollitt, Songo’o, Edwards, Dackers.
Subs: Scales, Adam Lewis, Taylor, Macadam, Hope, Angol, Slew, Paul Lewis, Dobson.
Aim! Leicester 1-0 QPR (Justin 8)
Facundo Buonanotte is restored to the Leicester beginning XI and it’s his ball that creates the objective, a clipped in set-piece that James Justin bundles dwelling off his toe. QPR keeper Joe Walsh makes a large number of it to let the Leicester participant get there forward of him.
Crew information: Bournemouth v West Brom
Bournemouth: Arrizabalaga, Hill, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Soler, Adams, Winterburn, Aarons, Brooks, Kluivert, Ouattara.
Subs: Dennis, Travers, Kerkez, Cook dinner, Jebbison, Semenyo, Akinmboni, Kinsey-Wellings, Rees-Dottin.
West Brom: Wildsmith, Furlong, Holgate, Taylor, Kinds, Mowatt, Racic, Fellows, Ahearne-Grant, Diangana, Swift.
Subs: Cann, Frabotta, Heggem, Diakite, Molumby, Johnston, Bostock, Wallace, Cole.
Leicester 0-0 QPR. It’s very misty on the King Energy Stadium and from what I can inform not a lot as occurred within the opening six minutes, however with visibility like this who can inform?
The opposite early kick-offs have all reached full-time, listed below are the scores:
Birmingham Metropolis 2-1 Lincoln Metropolis
Bristol Metropolis 1-2 Wolves
Middlesbrough 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
We’ve got dwell updates from the closing levels of Liverpool v Accrington Stanley with Scott Murray right here:
Leicester v QPR: Crew information
First up we’ve got that acquainted 2pm kick-off Saturday kick-off, listed below are how the perimeters line up on the King Energy:
Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Kristiansen, Faes, Winks, Soumare, Buonanotte, El Khannous, Mavididi, Vardy.
Subs: Iversen, Okoli, Thomas, Choudhury, Skipp, De Cordova-Reid, McAteer, Ayew, Daka.
QPR: Walsh, Ashby, Edwards, Clarke-Salter, Paal, Varane, Area, Kolli, Madsen, Saito, Chair.
Subs: Nardi, Dunne, Fox, Colback, Dixon-Bonner, Morgan, Smyth, Lloyd, Frey.
Preamble
Maybe Scottish glam rock band Pilot weren’t singing concerning the dawn over Edinburgh, however the enduring attraction of the FA Cup once they wrote 1975 hit Magic – ‘Ho, ho, ho, it’s magic you realize, by no means imagine it’s not so…’
The message is obvious, we simply must imagine within the magic, always remember to reference it to after which it’s going to survive. Nothing says ‘magic’ fairly like a slate of Saturday 3pm video games headlined by the Chelsea’s billionaire backups kicking the crap out of the membership at present second backside of the Soccer League (Morecambe) or Bournemouth v West Brom.
Nonetheless, we plod on and look additional down the fixture checklist in quest of an upset alternative. Maybe Exeter, at present mid-table in League One, can overcome Oxford United, who – remarkably – are at present within the second tier for the primary time this millennium. What probability a brand new supervisor bounce at Plymouth as they tackle Brentford? Seagull pessimism tells me Norwich have an opportunity towards a Brighton staff missing a recognised striker, so there’s that. Nottingham Forest v Luton, the artist previously generally known as a Premier League relegation scrap, now appears like a routine win for Nuno’s European hopefuls.
Replays are clearly now not magic, however extra-time and penalties undoubtedly are, so we would get a few of these this afternoon which is – er – miserable enjoyable.
As a seasoned FA Cup third spherical observer, all of this sarcastic lack of perception within the ‘magic’ will after all show incorrect and also you, fortunate reader, will get to observe alongside a day of shocks with me. Please get in contact along with your observations from the cup or the very restricted league motion (League Two, we see you).
Crew information shortly.