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results &

fixtures

emirates fa Cup

5th round

Chelsea (1) 2 liverpool (0) 0

Willian 13 Att: 40,103

Barkley 64

reading (1) 1 sheff Utd (1) 2

Puscas 43 (pen) McGoldrick 2

Att: 15,129 Sharp 105

AET – Score after 90 mins 1-1

West Brom (0) 2 neWCastle (2) 3

Phillips 74 Almiron 33, 45

Zohore 90 Lazaro 47

sky Bet league one

ipsWiCh (0) 0 fleetWood (1) 1

Att: 15,678 Evans 40

p W d l f a pts

Coventry 33 17 13 3 47 30 64

Rotherham 34 18 8 8 60 35 62

Portsmouth 33 17 8 8 51 32 59

Wycombe 34 17 8 9 45 40 59

Sunderland 34 16 10 8 46 28 58

Fleetwood 33 16 10 7 49 36 58

Oxford Utd 34 16 9 9 58 35 57

Peterborough 34 16 8 10 66 40 56

Ipswich 35 14 10 11 46 35 52

Doncaster 33 14 9 10 50 33 51

Gillingham 34 12 14 8 40 32 50

Burton Albion 33 12 11 10 46 45 47

Blackpool 33 11 11 11 43 41 44

Bristol Rovers 33 11 9 13 35 46 42

Shrewsbury 33 10 11 12 29 39 41

Accrington 34 10 10 14 46 51 40

Lincoln City 34 11 6 17 41 44 39

MK Dons 34 10 7 17 36 46 37

AFC Wimbledon 34 8 10 16 39 52 34

Rochdale 33 9 6 18 36 56 33

Tranmere 32 6 8 18 32 58 26

Southend 34 3 7 24 36 84 16

Bolton 32 5 9 18 25 64 12

sky Bet league two

exeter (1) 1 CreWe (0) 1

Parkes 32 Nottingham 61

Att: 4,221

plymoUth (3) 3 grimsBy (0) 0

Bakinson 22 Att: 9,327

Hardie 30

Jephcott 40

sWindon (1) 2 sCUnthorpe (0) 0

Doyle 41, 77 Att: 7,583

p W d l f a pts

Swindon 35 21 6 8 62 37 69

Crewe 36 19 9 8 64 42 66

Plymouth 36 19 8 9 58 39 65

Exeter 36 18 11 7 52 40 65

Cheltenham 35 17 12 6 52 27 63

Northampton 36 17 7 12 53 38 58

Port Vale 36 14 14 8 50 44 56

Colchester 36 14 13 9 49 37 55

Bradford 36 14 12 10 44 38 54

Salford City 36 12 11 13 47 46 47

Forest Green 35 12 10 13 41 40 46

Crawley Town 36 10 15 11 48 47 45

Cambridge 36 12 9 15 39 46 45

Grimsby 36 11 11 14 43 51 44

Walsall 35 12 8 15 37 48 44

Newport County 34 11 10 13 31 37 43

Oldham 36 9 14 13 44 54 41

Scunthorpe 36 10 10 16 44 54 40

Leyton Orient 35 9 12 14 45 54 39

Carlisle 35 9 12 14 37 53 39

Mansfield 35 8 11 16 46 54 35

Morecambe 36 7 11 18 35 59 32

Macclesfield 36 7 15 14 32 44 30

Stevenage 35 3 13 19 23 47 22

sC ottish premiership

hiBernian (0) 1 hearts (0) 3

Hallberg 89 Clare 53 (pen)

Bozanic 65

Washington 80

ladBrokes sCottish—

Ch’ship: Ayr 0 Dundee Utd 0,

Dundee 0 Alloa 0, Inverness CT 3

Morton 2, Partick 0 Queen of

South 0. l ague 1:e Clyde 2

Montrose 1, Dumbarton 2 Forfar 0,

Raith 1 Falkirk 1. l ague 2:e

Cowdenbeath 2 Albion 1, Stirling 0

Stenhousemuir 0.

V anarama national

league: Barnet 2 Boreham Wood

2, Chesterfield 3 Harrogate Town 4,

Chorley 1 Eastleigh 2, FC Halifax 1

Sutton Utd 0, Solihull Moors 0

Hartlepool 1, AFC Fylde 1 Notts

County 2. north: Brackley 0

Boston Utd 0, Leamington 0 King’s

Lynn Town 0, York 1 Hereford FC 4.

south: Billericay 0 Havant and W 1.

fa trophy—4th rd: Concord

Rangers 2 Royston Town 1 (AET).

tennis

wta monterrey open

1st rnd: T Maria (Ger) bt H

Watson (Gbr) 7-6 (7-4) 3-6 7-5.

today’s fixtures

(7.45 unless stated)

emirates fa Cup 5th round

Leicester v Birmingham

Sheff Wed v Man City

Tottenham v Norwich

ladbrokes scottish premiership

Kilmarnock v Aberdeen

Livingston v Celtic

Motherwell v Ross County

Rangers v Hamilton

St Mirren v St Johnstone

ladbrokes scottish Ch’ship

Arbroath v Dunfermline

ladbrokes scottish league two

Brechin v Annan Athletic

CriCKet

2nd odi: South Africa v

Australia (Bloemfontein, 11am).

1st t 20 i: Sri Lanka v West

Indies (Pallekele, 1.30pm).

WEST BROM 2 NEWCASTLE 3

phillips 74, Zohore 90+3 almiron 33, 45, lazaro 47

FA CUP 5TH ROUND

THE HAWTHORNS

magic

mig is

mags

hero

Albion floored as two-goal

Almiron fires up Newcastle

back-up keeper Jonathan

Bond pushed the ball on to

him trying to deal with Saint-

Maximin’s 47th-minute

centre.

West Brom staged a

desperate attempt to get back

into it in the final 20 minutes

and caused a few moments of

panic, especially when

Phillips clawed one back in

the 74th minute when his

shot flew in off the underside

of the bar.

Then Fabian Schar

managed to scramble away a

goal-bound Phillips effort

before substitute Zohore

grabbed a late consolation

when he tapped home with

seconds left.

causing all sorts of problems

for the home side and

eventually created the

breakthrough in the 33rd

minute with a superb piece of

creative play.

Minutes after rattling the

post, Saint-Maximin sent

Almiron through and he

drew the keeper before

curling a left-foot shot into

the bottom corner of

the net to give the

visitors the lead.

Then Almiron

gave the 5,000

travelling fans real

cause to think the

long journey was

worthwhile on the

stroke of half-time when he

stuck a great finish at the end

of a penetrating move.

Lazaro carved the Baggies

open down the right flank,

the ball dropped to Joelinton,

who put the ball into

Almiron’s path with a clever

back heel and the Paraguayan

fired another left-foot shot

into the roof of the net.

Next it was Lazaro’s turn,

though he was fortunate that

unusually comfortable. Still,

they couldn’t stop themselves

giving their fans the jitters as

they survived an Albion

onslaught in the last 20

minutes which threatened to

make all their hard work

count for nothing.

Late goals from Matt

Phillips and Kenneth Zohore

had Newcastle reeling, but

they dug deep to hold

on.

For Toon boss

Bruce (right) it

proved welcome

respite from an

alarming slide in

the league where

they haven’t even

scored in four games and find

themselves just five points

clear of the drop zone.

West Brom made a

sweeping 11 changes –

though it must be said that in

Gareth Barry, Chris Brunt,

Kieran Gibbs and Charlie

Austin they picked four

players with just shy of 1,500

League appearances between

them.

Allan Saint-Maximin was

n ewCastle have every

right to think the fa Cup

gods are smiling on them

again as steve Bruce’s

side clinched a quarter-

final spot.

The Geordies have not

been able to buy a goal of late,

but suddenly their dismal

Premier League form went

out of the window.

If you believe in fate then

there is an ominous ring

about this result.

This was the fifth FA Cup

meeting between these two

grand old clubs and all have

been at The Hawthorns.

Newcastle had only won

once – back in 1974 – when

they ended up going all the

way to Wembley.

And Miguel Almiron

certainly seems to like the

competition – his double

making it four FA Cup goals.

The £21million midfielder

struck twice in the first half

and when Valentino Lazaro

was gifted Newcastle’s third

straight after the break it was

suddenly all looking

west Brom: Bond 6, Furlong 5,

O’Shea 5, Bartley 5, Gibbs 6,

Brunt 6 (Tulloch 85), Barry 5

(Krovinovic 57, 5), Harper 6,

Phillips 6, Austin 5 (Zohore 67,

5), Edwards 5

newCastle: Darlow 7,

Manquillo 7, Lascelles 7, Schar 7,

Rose 7, Bentaleb 7, S Longstaff 7,

Lazaro 7 (Lejeune 90), motm

Almiron 8 (Shelvey 70, 6),

Saint-Maximin 8 (Gayle 79, 7),

Joelinton 7

ref: Anthony Taylor

match stats

48%^ possession^52 %

6 shots on target^7

7 shots off target^5

6 Corners^2

1 offside^2

7 fouls^8

0 0 Cards^3 0

B Y dave armitage

0-1

0-2

0-3

BOOM FOR TOON

Almiron (right) shows

his delight alongside

Saint-Maximin after

scoring the opener

en route to Cup win