FA Cup fifth-round - as it happened: Chelsea emerge unscathed from day of shocks and surprises
Re-live all the action from the fifth round of the FA Cup
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Your support makes all the difference.Danny Cowley and his Lincoln team will aim to "achieve the impossible" again when they take on Burnley this weekend but the Imps boss believes their FA Cup run - whenever it ends - will stand the club in good stead for the future.
Cowley has guided National League leaders Lincoln to the fifth round for the first time in 130 years and at Turf Moor on Saturday they will attempt to become the first non-league side to reach the quarter-finals since the competition's current format was instigated in 1925.
Lincoln City have no fresh injury problems but Lee Beevers remains out with a long-term knee injury.
Burnley are without Robbie Brady and Jeff Hendrick for their FA Cup fifth round clash against National League leaders Lincoln.
Brady is cup-tied having played for Norwich earlier in the competition, while Hendrick serves the second match of a three-game suspension.
Steven Defour (hamstring) is still out and Johann Berg Gudmundsson is fit to return, while the likes of Jon Flanagan, James Tarkowski, Tendayi Darikwa, Scott Arfield and Sam Vokes can all expect recalls.
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Saturday's FA Cup fixtures:
12.30pm: Burnley v. Lincoln City
3.00pm: Huddersfield v. Man City
3.00pm: Middlesbrough v. Oxford Utd
3.00pm: Millwall v. Leicester
3.00pm: Wolverhampton v. Chelsea
55 mins: Pedro has just lined up a shot from 35 yards out. Yep, it was rubbish.
58 mins: Kurt Zouma gives it some Pedro. Skipping inside his marker, the Frenchman decides to have a go from long distance but is wildly off target.
60 mins: Molineux is sold out for the first time in a long while, and the home fans are doing all they can to rouse their team. It might not have had the desired effect yet, but it has at least woken me up because the first 15 minutes of this second period has been notably nondescript.
65 mins: GOAL! WOLVES 0 CHELSEA 1:
Pedro! Who else? It hasn't been the most convincing of performances from the Spanish international, but he has steered his side into the lead with a clinical header at the far post. An unselfish run to the byline from Diego Costa kept the ball alive and when he laid a pass back to Eden Hazard, the Belgian found Willian. The Brazilian took a moment and then picked out Pedro's run beyond David Edwards with a delightful chipped cross, and he made no mistake in planting an effort past the helpless Carl Ikeme.
70 mins: An excellent challenge from Nathaniel Chalobah denies Matt Doherty from bursting past him inside the box with the home side having loaded the six-yard box. Better than that, the tackle began a lightning Chelsea counter that only ended when Diego Costa was flagged as being offside.
73 mins: The goalscorer has done his job. Admittedly, not always very well, but it is his header that is the difference as he departs. Pedro is off, Cesar Azpilicueta is on and Nathan Ake will move to left wing-back so the newcomer can take his place in the central back-three.
78 mins: Wolves chances have been few and far between since Saville hit the post in the opening minutes and so they must do better when opportunities to test Chelsea's defence arise. Helder Costa tried to do just that when he he found himself in space, but his pass to Bodvarsson on the right was heavy, forcing the angle against the Icelander. The best the Wolves striker could muster from there was a corner that was comfortably cleared by the Premier League leaders.
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