FA Cup: Stoke down City
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FA CUP ROUND-UP
FA Cup: Stoke down City, Spurs thrash Bolton
High point: Stoke City's Ryan Shawcross climbs above City defence to head the second goal
Stoke heaped more pressure on Roberto Mancini after they beat ten-man Manchester City 3-1 to book their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Ryan Shawcross and Tuncay struck in extra-time as Stoke dramatically emerged victorious. Craig Bellamy had ensured the FA Cup fifth-round replay at the Britannia Stadium finished 1-1 after 90 minutes by immediately cancelling out Dave Kitson's late opener.
But Stoke made their numerical advantage count after Emmanuel Adebayor's harsh sending-off, by reclaiming the lead through Shawcross from a Rory Delap throw and Tuncay finished the job.
Tottenham thumped hapless Bolton 4-0 at White Hart Lane to seal a trip to Fulham in the last eight thanks to two goals from Roman Pavlyuchenko.
The £13.8 million Russia international Pavlyuchenko, who was starting only his third game of the season after bagging a double off the bench against Wigan at the weekend, put Spurs ahead after 23 minutes with a tenacious turn and finish.
Tottenham's passage was sealed with own goals either side of half-time from Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen and defender Andy O'Brien. Pavlyuchenko then rounded off the evening with the fourth goal, which he slotted past Jussi Jaaskelainen after being picked out in the box by substitute Danny Rose.
John Carew won and converted two late penalties to keep Aston Villa on course for a second Wembley final as they disposed of Crystal Palace 3-1 at Villa Park.
Villa took the lead three minutes before half-time but, like in the first leg, there was controversy, with the ball appearing to go out of play off James Milner, but referee Martin Atkinson awarded a corner.
Agbonlahor was first to react to Ashley Young's centre and sent a back header into the corner of the net for his 14th goal of the campaign. However, Palace drew level after 72 minutes when defender Stephen Warnock was adjudged to have brought down Alan Lee in the area and Darren Ambrose converted the penalty.
Carew had the final say for the Carling Cup finalists with his double blast after both penalties were conceded by Matthew Lawrence.
Villa will now play Reading after they staged a remarkable comeback to see off a West Brom side who were themselves within a minute of a meeting their Midlands neighbours.
Gylfi Sigurdsson proved to be the matchwinner in the fifth minute of extra time, just moments after Brian Howard's strike in the third of four stoppage-time minutes at the end of normal time had brought a dramatic end to the fifth-round replay.
The most relieved man in the Black Country must surely have been Royals goalkeeper Adam Federici, whose calamitous 47th-minute gaff in letting Robert Koren's shot squirm horribly through his body looked to have proved the difference.
Koren had earlier handed the Baggies a sixth-minute lead in the fifth-round replay before Jimmy Kebe levelled almost immediately - both players also scored the first two goals in the initial 2-2 draw between the two sides at the Madejski Stadium.
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Stoke 3 Manchester City 1: Emmanuel Adebayor sent off as Potty Blues crash out of FA Cup
Battle at the Britannia: Kitson opens the scoring for Stoke
Carlos Tevez is today due to board a plane in Argentina and fly home to England. For Manchester City, the good news ends there.
After a frantic FA Cup replay at the Britannia Stadium, City are out of the competition for another year. Extra-time goals from Stoke defender Ryan Shawcross and the Turkish striker Tuncay saw to that.
Roberto Mancini's City team also had to play 30 minutes of extra-time with ten men on a heavy pitch ahead of Saturday's trip to Chelsea. Emmanuel Adebayor had earlier been sent off for an open hand in the face of Shawcross and will miss three games.
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think mancini will end up like mark hughes. chelsea had john terry, lampard and drogba to hold all those big egos together. At man city, I dun see any clear leader. These egos erupt easily....like bellamy, adebayor. They claim that what they do is for the good of the club.....to me, it seems more like unnecessary disruptions.
mourinho shd come in, that wld be interesting.
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The FA Cup Draw
Sixth Round Proper
Portsmouth v Birmingham CityFulham vs Tottenham HotspurReading vs Aston VillaChelsea vs Stoke CityMatches to be played on 6 & 7 of March 2010. -
go for mourinho. mancini obviously cmi.
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Stoke seem to be Man City boogy team. They cant deal with Delap's throw!
I think many footballers in England viewed Man City as a delicious fat piece of carrot. Look at the amount of obscene money being thrown at players to lure them into this black hole.
They need a manager who can keep the ego in check. And i agree with
Originally posted by Rock^Star:At man city, I dun see any clear leader. These egos erupt easily....like bellamy, adebayor. They claim that what they do is for the good of the club.....to me, it seems more like unnecessary disruptions.
Barry is a good leader but his departure from Aston Villa to Man City made the headline for the wrong reason. Same goes to Toure, Adebayor, Lescott. Given is too far away from his teammate in the field to have any leadership impact.
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so is mancini not the right man to lead man city? so mancini will also face hughes fate ie dismissal?
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this is surely bad news for liverpool, losing to stoke just meant that city can fully concentrate on EPL
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man city needs a cantona, zidane, beckenbauer, zidane or desailly to gel the players together.
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Originally posted by Poignant:
this is surely bad news for liverpool, losing to stoke just meant that city can fully concentrate on EPL
seriously even if man city is still in the fa cup, liverpool rivals for 4th place is not only city, but villa and spurs too.
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villa will get the fourth spot. They are the most consistent of the contenders.
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someone must get that long throw delap
arsenal kena it long throw le
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
villa will get the fourth spot. They are the most consistent of the contenders.
We shall see!
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Originally posted by Y_Shun:
We shall see!
I concur. I hope Villa get the 4th spot and O Neil can go out buy some good strikers to play in the CL qualifiers.