Results of the third round, which wrapped up today. Winners in
bold; ties where a team from a lower league won
in red.
Tranmere Rovers (L2) 0 - 7
Spurs
Man U 2 - 0 Reading (Champ)
Shrewsbury Town (L1) 1 - 1 Stoke (Champ)
Bournemouth 1 -3
Brighton
West Ham 2 - 0 Birmingham City (Champ)
Burnley 1 - 0 Barnsley (L1)
West Brom (Champ) 1 - 0 Wigan (Champ)
Sheffield Wednesday (Champ) 0 - 0 Luton Town (L1)
Bolton Wanderers (Champ) 5 - 2 Walsall (L1)
Gillingham (L1) 1 - 0 Cardiff
Brentford (Champ) 1 - 0 Oxford United (L1)
Everton 2 -1 Lincoln (L2)
Chelsea 2 - 0 Nottingham Forest (Champ)
Derby County (Champ) 2 -2 Southampton
Accrington Stanley (L1) 1 - 0 Ipswich Town (Champ)
Fleetwood Town (L1) 2 - 3
AFC Wimbledon (L1)
Middlesborough (Champ) 5 - 0 Peterborough (L1)
Aston Villa (Champ) 0 - 3
Swansea (Champ)
Bristol City (Champ) 1 - 0 Huddersfield
Newcastle 1 - 1 Blackburn Rovers (Champ)
Norwich City (Champ) 0 - 1 Portsmouth (L1)
Crystal Palace 1 - 0 Grimsby Town (L2)
Blackpool (L1) 0 - 3
Arsenal
Man City 7 - 0 Rotherham (Champ)
Fulham 1 - 2 Oldham Athletic (L2)
Sheffield United (Champ) 0 - 1 Barnet (National League)
Millwall (Champ) 2 - 1 Hull (Champ)
Preston North End (Champ) 1 - 3 Doncaster (L1)
QPR (Champ) 2 - 1 Leeds United (Champ)
Woking (National League) 0 - 2
Watford
Newport County (L2) 2 - 1 Leicester
Wolves 2 - 1 Liverpool
I saw some of these. In a season microcosm, Everton scored two brilliant goals and looked fantastic against League Two leaders Lincoln, and then gave up a cheap goal off a set piece from a stupid foul and spent the rest of the game nervously seeing out the win. Leicester trailed most of the way away to League Two Newport County (cool nickname - "the Exiles" - because they had to play a few seasons away from home due to nonpay of back rent), scored an equalizer late, then gave up a stupid handball in the box at the death and lost. Only caught the last 15 minutes of Wolves-Liverpool. The Liverpool thread here covered that, from what l saw Wolves looked pretty good. Spurs were only up 1-0 at the half, I watched some of the second half and it was baby-seal clubbing.
Biggest upset was non-league Barnet over Sheffield United, who are currently third in the Championship and so may well get promoted to the PL. Scathing remarks by the Sheffield manager about his team:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/06/fa-cup-third-round-serves-up-shocks-as-barnet-oldham-newport-shine
A seething Chris Wilder ripped into his players after defeat, accusing them of complacency. “I’ve just said to the boys: ‘Don’t go out through the main entrance, you don’t deserve to go out of the main entrance. Try and find a door to sneak out of.’ Because that’s what the performance was. It was one of arrogance; it was off-plan, doing what they wanted to.
“The support that our fans gave to the Barnet players was first-class and fully deserved, but they should have booed our own players louder. I knew Barnet would bring their A game to the table, we told the players they would be up for it and raise their game. I should imagine the
Barnet players are getting back on the coach are possibly saying: ‘How the hell are they third in the division?’ And what I will say, well, we are third because none of those players that played today are going to force their way into the first team.”
In the PL, in addition to Liverpool and Leicester, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Huddersfield, and Fulham (losers to League 2 Oldham Athletic) were knocked out.