Coral.co.uk – FA Cup Highlights
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www.coral.co.uk – The biggest domestic club cups in the world was at its fourth round stage this weekend and for everybody that was hoping for a few surprises was only left with Swansea’s fantastic 2-0 win at last year’s winners Portsmouth.
Two 1st half goals won it for the Coca cola championship side with the 1st being scored by on loan striker Dyer and then a Jason Scotland penalty on the stroke of half time were enough to crank up the pressure on manager new Tony Adams questioning his ability to manage at the highest level so early in his Coaching career.
Arguably the tie of the round was at Anfield with Liverpool and Everton battling out yet another Merseyside derby and it was less surprising that it once again ended in a stalemate with Lescott scoring the opener for the away side then who else but Stephen Gerrard sending this game into a replay at Goodison with a typical finish.
Manchester United fought out a 2-1 victory over Tottenham in the other 4th round game at Old Trafford with Russian Pavluchenko heading Tottenham into an early lead before Paul Scholes and then spurs old boy Berbatov sent the Red Devils into the 5th round.
Chelsea sailed through their home tie with Ipswich 3-1 with midfield maestros Lampard (1) and Ballack (2) scoring the goals for Chelsea. Crowd trouble marred Hull’s 2-0 victory over Millwall with the South Londoners fans intent on causing trouble and I feel it is time for the FA to take action against this clubs fans once and for all.
Sunderland and Blackburn will have to do it all again after drawing a blank at the Stadium of light. West Ham and Fulham overcame lower league opposition to progress and Arsenal had to battle hard in their 0-0 draw with Cardiff.
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