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Hollywood superstar and Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds took to social media last night to reflect on his team’s performance against Chelsea. He wrote: “Three years ago this week, we battled Maidenhead United to a draw. Today we pushed Chelsea to extra time. So incredibly proud of Wrexham’s performance today.
The Red Dragons are now targeting a fourth successive promotion, which would see them reach the Premier League. They are currently sixth in the Championship table.
Over at the Stōk Cae Ras, Chelsea came from behind twice to beat Wrexham 4-2 in added time. Sam Smith’s early goal was cancelled out by an own-goal from keeper Arthur Okonkwo before the break. With the score level for the majority of the second half, Callum Doyle got the Welsh side dreaming with a goal in the 78th minute, but Josh Acheampong levelled things up again just moments later.
Alejandro Garnacho and João Pedro then both struck in added time to secure the win for the Blues.
Speaking after the 2-1 loss to Arsenal, Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough said: I thought the effort the players gave was absolutely incredible. We wanted to make it a proper cup tie and make it uncomfortable for Arsenal. I thought we did that.
“We’re very proud. We said to the lads, if we do concede – don’t concede a second one. Then it becomes a bit too easy. That didn’t happen today. We could have done it. But I think everyone else enjoyed it.”
Arsenal survived a scare from Mansfield Town at the One Call Stadium to progress to the quarter-finals. Noni Madueke broke the deadlock for the Premier League leaders in the 41st minute, but Will Evans levelled things up after capitalising on a defensive error. Mikel Arteta responded by making a series of changes, one of which saw Eberechi Eze come on to score the winner.
Before we preview today’s games, let’s take a look back at yesterday’s FA Cup results…
FA Cup fixtures
Preamble
Hello, good morning and welcome to another Matchday live! We have three more FA Cup games to look forward to later as Fulham host Southampton, Port Vale face Sunderland and Leeds United take on Norwich City.
Elsewhere, Rangers take on Celtic AGAIN at Ibrox, this time in the Scottish Cup. And in Italy, the two Milan sides go head-to-head in a huge derby.
We’ll be looking ahead to all of those fixtures and recapping yesterday’s action.
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