FA Cup fifth-round - as it happened: Chelsea emerge unscathed from day of shocks and surprises
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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
Here's more from Lincoln gaffer Danny Cowley, speaking in his post-match press conference following his team's FA Cup exploits earlier today.
It's just incredible really, and you don't want it to end. The supporters have seen very little success at this football club, and so they deserve this.
The magic is back. Whoever says the FA Cup is dead clearly hasn't lived in Lincoln during the past six to eight weeks.
It's a game changer for the club. It is life changing for us.
86 mins: GOAL! MIDDLESBROUGH 3 OXFORD 2:
Middlesbrough are back in front at the Riverside and Oxford hearts are broken. Full-back Fabio put a cross on to the chest of Alvaro Negredo in the box, the Spanish striker held off his marker and Cristhian Stuani arrived to plant the loose ball into the back of the net. Can the Premier League side hold on this time?
90 mins: GOAL! MILLWALL 1 LEICESTER 0:
Down to ten men for almost all of the second half, League One Millwall are seconds away from knocking out the Premier League champions at the New Den. Lee Gregory did brilliantly in the build-up, taking a cross on his chest and holding off his man before slipping in the overlapping Shaun Cummings. The full-back kept his cool, bringing the ball on to his left foot and sliding a shot around Ron-Robert Zieler. The home fans erupt, and on the brink of seeing their side in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
The final FA Cup game of the day comes at Molineux where Wolverhampton Wanderers, fresh from knocking out Liverpool in round four, host Chelsea. Here are how the two teams line up...
Wolves: Ikeme, Coady, Batth, Hause, Doherty, Price, Saville, Costa, Edwards, Weimann, Bodvarsson
Subs: Burgoyne, Stearman, Evans, Enobakhare, Saiss, Ronan, Wilson
Chelsea: Begovic, Zouma, Terry, Ake; Moses, Chalobah, Fabregas, Pedro, Willian, Costa, Hazard
Subs: Eduardo, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Kenedy, Kante, Loftus-Cheek, Batshuayi
Referee: Jonathan Moss
It's time. As the sky darkens over Molineux, the players of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chelsea appear from the tunnel underneath the main stand. Two Premier League sides have already bitten the dust today at the hands of lower league opposition, will a third - a club that have lifted the FA Cup on seven occasions - follow? Find out by staying with us for minute-by-minute coverage.
KICK-OFF: After the starting eleven had come together for a pre-match huddle, the Old Gold of Wolves got the final FA Cup game underway - and immediately took the action to Chelsea, the visitors needing Kurt Zouma to repel an early break. The home crowd are up for it. The home players are up for it.
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