FA Cup fourth round draw LIVE: Fixtures as non-league sides joined Liverpool and Spurs to discover fate
There were two non-league sides in the draw after Kidderminster Harriers and Boreham Wood progressed in the third round
Kidderminster, the lowest-ranked side remaining in the FA Cup, will play West Ham in the fourth round. The National League North outfit, who stunned Reading with a 2-1 victory on Saturday, are rewarded with a tie at the London Stadium. Non-league side Boreham Wood have been handed a trip to Championship table-toppers Bournemouth.
Holders’ Leicester face the winners of Sunday’s late kick-off between Nottingham Forest and Arsenal. The fourth-round matches will be played on the opening weekend of February.
Full draw
Crystal Palace v Hartlepool United
Bournemouth v Boreham Wood
Huddersfield Town v Barnsley
Peterborough United v Queens Park Rangers
Cambridge United v Luton Town
Southampton v Coventry City
Chelsea v Plymouth Argyle
Everton v Brentford
Kidderminster Harriers v West Ham United
Manchester United/Aston Villa v Middlesbrough
Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton & Hove Albion
Liverpool v Cardiff City
Stoke City v Wigan Athletic
Nottingham Forest/Arsenal v Leicester City
Manchester City v Fulham
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Norwich City
All games to played between Feb.4 and Feb. 7.
Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal: Team changes
Forest makes three changes to the team that lost 1-0 to Huddersfield laat time out in the Championship. Ryan Yates return to the starting line up and there are debuts for Steve Cook and Keinan Davis.
Mikel Arteta makes seven changes to the Arsenal line-up that lost 2-1 to Manchester City last weekend. Only Ben White, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli keep their places in the team.
Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal: Line-ups
Nottingham Forest XI: Samba, Spence, Worral, McKenna, Colback, Garner, Johnson, Zinckernagel, Cook, Yates, Davis
Arsenal XI: Leno, Cedric, White, Holding, Tavares, Lokonga, Patino, Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli, Nketiah
Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal: Arsenal to wear special all-white kit for FA Cup tie in stand against teen violence
There is one more game to go today in the FA Cup action as Nottingham Forest host Arsenal. The Gunners will wear special all-white shirts today as the Premier League club takes a stand against youth violence in London.
The stabbing of a 16-year-old boy at the end of last year was the 30th teenage murder in 2021 and came just as Arsenal was preparing to roll out its “No More Red” campaign.
Arsenal to wear special all-white kit for FA Cup tie in stand against teen violence
The north London club’s players will wear the special jerseys for Sunday’s FA Cup match against Nottingham Forest
FA Cup latest scores
The match between Cardiff and Preston finished 1-1 and has gone to extra-time butthere are results elsewhere. Here are the full time scores for all of today’s games. The teams in bold are the ones going through to the next round:
Luton 4-0 Harrogate
Charlton 0-1 Norwich
Liverpool 4-1 Shrewsbury
Stoke 2-0 Leyton Orient
Tottenham 3-1 Morecambe
West Ham 2-0 Leeds
Wolves 3-0 Sheffield United
Up next is the draw for the fourth round before Arsenal travel to Nottingham Forest. Kick off for that one is at 5.10pm.
Full-time: West Ham 2 - 0 Leeds
90+4 mins: The full-time whistle goes and West Ham complete a 2-0 victory over Leeds. Marcelo Bielsa’s men are knocked out at the third round stage of the FA Cup once again.
GOAL! West Ham 2 - 0 Leeds (Bowen, 90+3)⚽️
90+3 mins: West Ham have won it! Leeds push high up the pitch searching for an equaliser and a simple clearance sends Antonio free on the counter-attack. He gets some support from Bowen and knocks the ball across to him. Meslier comes charging off his line but Bowen guides the ball around him and slots it home!
West Ham 1 - 0 Leeds
90+2 mins: Summerville takes on Johnson on the right side and takes the ball into the box. He sends it into th middle but Bowen is there to head it out. Leeds recover the ball and work it out to Drameh who wins a corner for Leeds.
Meslier is up now as well as the ball is swung into the box but Areola gets there and punches it out of the box.
West Ham 1 - 0 Leeds
90 mins: Four minutes of added time to play. Four minutes for Leeds to find an equaliser. Four minutes before West Ham secure a place in the fourth round.
West Ham 1 - 0 Leeds
88 mins: Summerville has been good since he’s come on. He finds a pocket of space and drives into the box with the ball before attempting to play Harrison in down the right. Harrison doesn’t get the memo though and stops his run just as the pass is played and the ball rolls out for a goal kick.
West Ham 1 - 0 Leeds
85 mins: Fornals and Vlasic combine on the left wing to work the ball into the Leeds final third. Summerville clips Vlasic who goes down and is awarded a free kick. This is a dangerous position for West Ham to have the ball. Rice tries to catch Meslier unawares and curls a shot at goal but boots it high and wide.
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