Chelsea v Morecambe, Leicester v QPR, and more: FA Cup third round – clockwatch | FA Cup

Wonderful cross from David Brooks on the Bournemouth right goes all the way across the West Brom box and Justin Kluivert does really well to delicately guide his one-touch finish home under the crossbar. All about the ball from Brooks that goal, pure corridor of uncertainty stuff.

The goal-fest at the King Power surely has been settled now. Who had a James Justin brace on their bingo card? Patson Daka, who replaced Vardy, finds the full-back 12 yards out and Justin does the rest.

The League One side have an equaliser via Demetri Mitchell.

Joao Felix retrieves a corner and tries to dink it back but Yann Songo’o, who looks like he’s trying to block a rugby union drop kick, blatantly handles. Christopher Nkunku smacks his spot kick to the keeper’s right but Harry Burgoyne makes a great save to keep it at 0-0.

Dane Scarlett leads a fast break and feeds Matt Phillips to fire home a left-footed shot from the middle of the box.

Caleb Taylor, who has just been recalled from a loan spell at Wycombe, gets to a rebound from John Swift’s free-kick and gives the manager-less Championship side a shock lead.

Mavididi is vying with Buonanotte for this MOTM trophy. The winger’s cross hits Harrison Ashby’s arm to earn his side a penalty, little doubt there. Vardy send the keeper the wrong way from the spot.

Chelsea 0-0 Morecambe. Ben Tollitt tests Filip Jörgensen in the Chelsea goal after some direct play from the League Two side. The Blues keeper didn’t gather it cleanly but the shot would have to have been a bit more wicked to go in from that angle, wide of the right hand side of the six-yard box.

Do we have an early shock? As much as a Championship side beating another side in the same division would be a shock, the Black Cats are flying and Stoke, frankly, are not. Anyway Lewis Koumas drew a foul and Tom Cannon converts with a cool effort down the middle.

We are underway in the 3pm kick-offs!

Joe Pearson writes in (presumably from the US):

Hi Tom! Anybody in the US would recognise the Magic song as the soundtrack of Ozempic commercials, the diabetes drug that is now widely used for weight loss. Thanks for sticking it back in our heads.

That is a wonderful discovery for me. US pharmaceutical adverts are baffling to Europeans but that is an incredible song selection… ‘It’s hard to believe I’m eight stone’.

It’s nearly full-blown ‘magic’ time. We’re five minutes away from kick-off in the 3pm kick-offs.

Five goals and plenty of entertainment at the King Power. Leicester should be out of sight but seem hell bent on making this a game with some woeful concentration at the back.

Game back on! QPR benefit from more sloppy Leicester defending and the visitors back in it on the stroke of half time. Kolli, who has been busy all half, pounces on a loose ball from Harry Winks and surges into the box before making a tricky finish look easy by slotting past Stolarczyk.

Reading: Button, Abrefa, Dean, Bindon, Kanu, Savage, Wing, Rushesha, Knibbs, Smith, Wareham.

Subs: Pereira, Holzman, Senga-Ngoyi, Stickland, Ahmed, Wellens, Sackey, Borgnis, Osho.

Burnley: Hladky, Sonne, Worrall, Egan, Lucas Pires, Bauress, McDermott, Koleosho, Barnes, Foster, Rodriguez.

Subs: Green, Humphreys, Ekdal, Flemming, Laurent, Ndayishimiye, Delcroix, Veevers, Tweedy.

Buonanotte has been the best player on the pitch and gets his goal from a move he starts. Picking it up in midfield, the Argentine No. 10 sweeps it wide to El Khannouss who hangs up an inviting cross for Buonanotte to head home.

QPR right back Harrison Ashby tries to cut inside Stephy Mavididi and has the ball nicked off him. Bilal El Khannouss picks it up and drives into the Hoops’ box before flicking it off to Mavididi place it home from the penalty spot.

Exeter: Whitworth, Fitzwater, Crama, Yfeko, McMillan, Jake Richards, Woods, Harper, Watts, Mitchell, Magennis.

Subs: MacDonald, Francis, Aitchison, Alli, Niskanen, Jones, Doyle, McDonald, Bird.

Oxford: Ingram, ter Avest, Long, Thorniley, Leigh, Sibley, McEachran, Phillips, El Mizouni, Dembele, Scarlett.

Subs: Cumming, Brown, Vaulks, Placheta, Matos, Goodrham, Rodrigues, Ferdinan, Kioso.

Brentford: Valdimarsson, Roerslev, Kim, van den Berg, Henry, Jensen, Maghoma, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard, Carvalho, Schade.

Subs: Flekken, Wissa, Mbeumo, Meghoma, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Konak, Yogane, Arthur.

Plymouth: Hazard, Palsson, Pleguezuelo, Galloway, Sorinola, Randell, Wright, Mumba, Whittaker, Baidoo, Roberts.

Subs: Grimshaw, Ogbeta, Szucs, Cissoko, Bundu, Puchacz, Gyabi, Al Hajj, Issaka.

Leicester 1-1 QPR. Jamie Vardy misses a huge chance to put the Foxes back in front, again Buonanotte is the creator. QPR then go up the other end and Rayan Kolli fires just over after Stolarczyk’s duff clearance.

Norwich: Long, Stacey, Cordoba, Doyle, Chrisene, Forson, McLean, Nunez, Schwartau, Dobbin, Crnac.

Subs: Gunn, Duffy, Hills, Mahovo, Fisher, Gordon, Hernandez, Myles, Sargent.

Brighton: Steele, Veltman, Webster, Van Hecke, Estupinan, Ayari, Baleba, Minteh, Enciso, Mitoma, Rutter

Subs: Verbruggen, March, Gruda, Adingra, Moder, Welbeck, O’Riley, McConville, Turns

Sunderland: Moore, Hume, O’Nien, Hjelde, Alese, Jones, Neil, Mayenda, Rigg, Aouchiche, Connolly.

Subs: Nna Noukeu, Rusyn, Bellingham, Isidor, Abdul Samed, Mepham, Aleksic, Johnson, Ogunsuyi.

Stoke: Johansson, Tchamadeu, Phillips, Wilmot, Stevens, Seko, Burger, Moran, Baker, Koumas, Cannon.

Subs: Bonham, Rose, Lawal, Gooch, Sidibe, Bae, Andre Vidigal, Tezgel, Ennis.

Ilias Chair is the first QPR player to test Jakub Stolarczyk, who saves well, but the Leicester keeper cannot do anything about Jonathan Varane’s effort. QPR had turned up the heat in the previous five minutes or so and after Harry Winks failed to clear, Varane gathered the ball and slammed it low and into the bottom corner from all of 25 yards.

Nottingham Forest: Carlos Miguel, Toffolo, Boly, Morato, Alex Moreira, Ward-Prowse, Jota Silva, Yates, Sosa, Awoniyi.

Subs: Sels, Anderson, Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Elanga, Danilo, Milenkovic, Abbott.

Luton: Kaminski, Walters, Holmes, McGuinness, Bell, Nakamba, Walsh, Jones, Dabo, Nelson, Morris.

Subs: Krul, Andersen, Krauss, Woodrow, Adebayo, Mpanzu, Clark, Brown, Hashioka.

Chelsea: Jorgensen, James, Adarabioyo, Disasi, Veiga, Lavia, Pedro Neto, Nkunku, Joao Felix, George, Guiu.

Subs: Sanchez, Colwill, Acheampong, Gusto, Cucurella, Fernandez, Palmer, Sancho, Jackson.

Morecambe: Burgoyne, Hendrie, Williams, Stott, Tonda, White, Jones, Tollitt, Songo, Edwards, Dackers.

Subs: Scales, Adam Lewis, Taylor, Macadam, Hope, Angol, Slew, Paul Lewis, Dobson.

Facundo Buonanotte is restored to the Leicester starting XI and it is his ball that creates the goal, a clipped in set-piece that James Justin bundles home off his toe. QPR keeper Joe Walsh makes a mess of it to let the Leicester player get there ahead of him.

Bournemouth: Arrizabalaga, Hill, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Soler, Adams, Winterburn, Aarons, Brooks, Kluivert, Ouattara.

Subs: Dennis, Travers, Kerkez, Cook, Jebbison, Semenyo, Akinmboni, Kinsey-Wellings, Rees-Dottin.

West Brom: Wildsmith, Furlong, Holgate, Taylor, Styles, Mowatt, Racic, Fellows, Ahearne-Grant, Diangana, Swift.

Subs: Cann, Frabotta, Heggem, Diakite, Molumby, Johnston, Bostock, Wallace, Cole.

Leicester 0-0 QPR. It’s very misty at the King Power Stadium and from what I can tell not much as happened in the opening six minutes, but with visibility like this who can tell?

The other early kick-offs have all reached full-time, here are the scores:

Birmingham City 2-1 Lincoln City

Bristol City 1-2 Wolves

Middlesbrough 0-1 Blackburn Rovers

We have live updates from the closing stages of Liverpool v Accrington Stanley with Scott Murray here:

First up we have that familiar 2pm kick-off Saturday kick-off, here are how the sides line up at the King Power:

Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Kristiansen, Faes, Winks, Soumare, Buonanotte, El Khannous, Mavididi, Vardy.

Subs: Iversen, Okoli, Thomas, Chowdhury, Skipp, De Cordova-Reid, McAteer, Ayew, Daka.

QPR: Walsh, Ashby, Edwards, Clarke-Salter, Paal, Varane, Field, Kolli, Madsen, Saito, Chair.

Subs: Nardi, Dunne, Fox, Colback, Dixon-Bonner, Morgan, Smyth, Lloyd, Frey.

Perhaps Scottish glam rock band Pilot were not singing about the sunrise over Edinburgh, but the enduring appeal of the FA Cup when they wrote 1975 hit Magic – ‘Ho, ho, ho, it’s magic you know, never believe it’s not so…’

The message is clear, we just have to believe in the magic, never forget to reference it to and then it will survive. Nothing says ‘magic’ quite like a slate of Saturday 3pm games headlined by the Chelsea’s billionaire backups kicking the crap out of the club currently second bottom of the Football League (Morecambe) or Bournemouth v West Brom.

Still, we plod on and look further down the fixture list in search of an upset opportunity. Perhaps Exeter, currently mid-table in League One, can overcome Oxford United, who – remarkably – are currently in the second tier for the first time this millennium. What chance a new manager bounce at Plymouth as they take on Brentford? Seagull pessimism tells me Norwich have a chance against a Brighton team lacking a recognised striker, so there’s that. Nottingham Forest v Luton, the artist formerly known as a Premier League relegation scrap, now looks like a routine win for Nuno’s European hopefuls.

Replays are clearly no longer magic, but extra-time and penalties definitely are, so we might get some of those this afternoon which is – er – depressing fun.

As a seasoned FA Cup third round observer, all of this sarcastic lack of belief in the ‘magic’ will of course prove incorrect and you, lucky reader, will get to follow along an afternoon of shocks with me. Please get in touch with your observations from the cup or the very limited league action (League Two, we see you).

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