When the FA Cup recreation entered stoppage time, West Ham was dealing with a humiliating loss to the sixth-tier facet Kidderminster.
Alex Penny had scored within the nineteenth minute for the National North division’s third-place workforce who had been outplaying the millionaires from London who’re solely level away from the Champions League locations within the Premier League.
Only Declan Rice’s equalizer pressured the sport into additional time to stop West Ham from being on the receiving finish of the most important upset within the 150 years of world soccer’s oldest competitors.
Then to keep away from a penalty shootout on the 6,000-capacity central England stadium, it took Jarrod Bowen scoring in stoppage time of additional time to get better a 2-1 victory in opposition to the workforce 113 locations decrease within the English league system.
It was a battle too in London for European champion Chelsea, needing to come back from behind to get rid of third-tier Plymouth 2-1 in additional time at Stamford Bridge to succeed in the fifth spherical.
Macaulay Gillesphey headed Plymouth into an early lead and Cesar Azpilicueta leveled by way of a wonderful backheel end simply earlier than halftime.
But Chelsea could not discover a winner inside 90 minutes. Even after Marcos Alonso scored on the finish of the primary half of additional time, Plymouth nonetheless had an opportunity to stage.
But goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga’s guessed appropriately to avoid wasting a late penalty from Ryan Hardie after the Plymouth striker had been fouled by Malang Sarr.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
