Morgan Whittaker’s beautiful late purpose helped Championship strugglers Plymouth Argyle pull off a serious FA Cup upset with a 1-0 victory at Premier League Brentford.

Thomas Frank’s facet weren’t on the races on the Gtech Group Stadium previous to Whittaker’s solo 82nd-minute effort which despatched Argyle, who had new supervisor Miron Muslic watching from the stands after Wayne Rooney’s sacking a fortnight in the past, into the fourth spherical.

Plymouth’s leaky backline, which has conceded 53 league targets this season to depart them rooted to the underside of the second tier, was not on show in west London as valiant defending from the likes of Brendan Galloway helped caretaker boss Kevin Nancekivell safe a memorable victory and lengthen Argyle’s unbeaten run since Rooney’s departure to 3 video games.

Chelsea had been made to attend for the floodgates to open as League TwoMorecambe put up dogged resistance earlier than happening 5-0 within the FA Cup third spherical at Stamford Bridge.

There have been intervals within the first half when the 87 locations separating these sides within the pyramid may simply be forgotten, the group at present twenty third in League Two leaving Enzo Maresca’s Champions League chasers puzzling over how they might decide their method by way of to spherical 4.

That two of the 5 targets had been blasted in from exterior the penalty space by reserve defender Tosin Adarabioyo gave a way of how quick on inspiration Chelsea had been for a lot of this match, although the 27-year-old deserved credit score for exhibiting initiative to interrupt the impasse late within the first half as the gang grew nervous.

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s future is likelier to contain Actual Madrid than Accrington Stanley. The Bernabeu could show to be his new house however he would possibly endlessly stay a stranger to the Wham Stadium in Lancashire. Accrington couldn’t fairly emulate Carlo Ancelotti’s group, dropping 4-0 at Anfield, the place the Champions League holders went down 2-0, however they acquired a glimpse of the category that prompted Actual to make an method for Alexander-Arnold final week.

A shot from 20 yards was whipped, bent, measured and caressed, designed to nestle within the prime nook of the web. “I may discuss for hours about that,” stated Liverpool’s supervisor Arne Slot, “Unbelievable.” And maybe merciless for Accrington’s supervisor, John Doolan, who coached Alexander-Arnold when he was six or seven and was shocked when the right-back remembered and approached him after the ultimate whistle. “He’s such a such a beautiful and humble man,” he stated. “To do this exhibits the category he has.”

The FA Cup draw for the fourth spherical will happen after the conclusion of Arsenal vs Manchester United on Sunday, 12 January.

That match kicks off at 3pm, so the draw needs to be getting began shortly after 5pm GMT relying on whether or not or not extra-time is required in that tie.

Metropolis will after all go into the draw for the fourth spherical, whereas Salford will look in direction of the weekend – they face Fleetwood on Saturday, 18 January at 3pm.

Metropolis’s subsequent sport is available in midweek, as they face Brentford away on Tuesday, 14 January at 7.30pm.

James McAtee grabbed a second-half hat-trick as Manchester Metropolis powered into the fourth spherical of the FA Cup with a ruthless 8-0 demolition of League Two neighbours Salford.

Jeremy Doku weighed in with two targets whereas Jack Grealish ended his lengthy scoring drought and children Divin Mubama and Nico O’Reilly additionally struck in a one-sided encounter on the Etihad Stadium.

It was a brutal exhibition by a much-changed Metropolis, whose followers revelled within the beating dished out to their ‘Class of 92’-owned guests.

In his post-match convention, Guardiola begins by giving “all respect for Salford”.

“It was not simple with the person marking however we had been scientific up entrance and proud of the efficiency,” he says.

On James McAtee, he says: “I’m so comfortable for him, he’s a particular participant. Scoring a hat-trick shouldn’t be simple. He began a bit of bit flat however afterwards he has unimaginable sense in entrance of purpose. He has the appropriate tempo, he modified the rhythm to attain.

“So I’m actually comfortable for him and for Nico O’Reilly, who was taking part in a place he’d by no means performed earlier than at left-back. Jeremy [Doku] performed actually good, so comfortable for everybody,” he provides.

On McAtee, he provides: “He’s been at Metropolis for a very long time, a Metropolis supporter and he was one of many greatest abilities on the academy from the technology of Jadon Sancho, Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers and Liam Delap. He performed with these guys and was the captain of them. I’m actually, actually happy he’s right here with us.”

On Jack Grealish, he stated that the England worldwide “is a particular participant, not all the time one to attain a whole lot of targets nevertheless it is dependent upon him. If he can carry out nicely, he’ll take the chance to maintain going and going.

“All of the gamers rely upon the efficiency in coaching periods and once they have minutes to play. It’s easy, not only for Jack, for all of them.

“I’ve been supervisor right here for greater than 500 video games and we’ve made an unimaginable 487 or 488 video games. Then we had 11, 12 or 13 dangerous video games.

“The issue that we’ve had is that we’ve had an unimaginable quantity of accidents so we couldn’t practice and we couldn’t compete. It’s so troublesome however step-by-step, persons are coming again.

“This season or possibly subsequent season, new gamers are available and it’s important to battle on your place. When somebody pushes you, you have got competitors and also you give your finest,” he says as he finishes.

Right here’s what Salford boss Karl Robinson needed to say after the win:

“You all the time know you’re on the mercy of the standard of the competitors. Man Metropolis and Pep have by no means disrespected anyone and tonight they confirmed us why they’re what they’re and why he’s who he’s.

“It’s about dusting ourselves off, we’ve come on a lot in 12 months and to be the place we’re within the league. We now have one purpose and that’s to get out of this league. It is a glimmer of what we need to be and we all know we’ve acquired a lot to enhance and we all know the place we need to be.

“I stated to the gamers I might have taken eight targets conceded in seven video games, I simply didn’t anticipate them to all are available one. We’re happy with them, I actually am. They by no means let me down.

“We make human error however that’s a part of the extent we’re at. Among the issues we weren’t so good at, we’ll be certain we’re higher. We’ll be taught due to at present,” he added.

“For me, it’s not a case of me attempting to select them up or have a go at them. You’re taking it within the chin. You hope for these glamour ties and we managed to get it. This was by no means a sport we’d take a look at and use as a disappointment shifting ahead. We be certain we plan correctly for our subsequent sport.”

Alan Shearer has been stuffed with reward for Grealish within the post-match evaluation.

“I believed Jack Grealish did every thing that he may have performed. He has had a tricky time and Pep has known as him out,” he stated.

“Pep has put him again within the group, it would have been a kick up the bottom and also you’ve acquired to exit and present a response and he has performed that.

“He has been getting criticism and the purpose will give him a little bit of perception – you may be amazed with what a purpose does for you.”