🏆 FA Cup: Man City knock Robins out; Fulham, Blackburn and Brighton win | OneFootball

It’s been another thrilling night of FA Cup action with four last 16 games taking place.

Here’s what happened.

Quality shows as Man City down Robins

Scorers: Foden 7′ 75′, De Bruyne 81′

Manchester City’s quality showed in the end as they beat Bristol City 3-0 thanks to a Phil Foden double and Kevin De Bruyne’s magic.

Manchester City named a strong side for this trip to Ashton Gate as Pep Guardiola looked to take the Citizens to the quarter-finals for the eighth consecutive year.

The likes of De Bruyne, Julian Alvarez and Foden all took their bow against the Championship side.

And it was Foden who broke the deadlock on seven minutes as he guided in a wonderful cross from Riyad Mahrez.

De Bruyne had been relatively quiet up to this point but really should have doubled City’s lead on 40 minutes but blazed a shot over the bar from eight yards out.

Into the second half and despite the Robins impressing in possession, they left space for Foden with 15 minutes minutes to go and the England international swept home to kill the game off.

The second wasn’t done though as De Bruyne bagged his goal after a lovely low effort from 25 yards.

Sensational Solomon strikes again

Scorers: Palhinha 21′, Solomon 57′

João Palhinha and Manor Solomon scored two brilliant goals to see Fulham knock Leeds out of the FA Cup.

Craven Cottage was the venue for what looked like being a corker of a Cup tie between the west London side and Javi Gracia’s men.

Leeds thought they had opened the scoring after 15 minutes but Georginio Rutter’s tap in was ruled out for offside.

But it was the home side who opened the scoring as Palhinha curled in perfectly from the edge of the area.

The Yorkshire were pushing for an equaliser and almost had it right before the break only for Georginio’s header to come back off the inside of the post.

Solomon had been on a stunning run of goalscoring form up to this point and produced one again just before the hour mark as he finished superbly from 20 yards out.

Leeds were pushing to get themselves back into the game but Marco Silva’s men were showing their continued class from the Premier League season and saw out the game in style.

Rovers rout Rodgers’ Foxes

Scorers: Iheanacho 69′; Dolan 33′, Szmodics 52′

Blackburn produced a big shock as the Championship side beat Leicester 2-1 to progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Leicester has just one shot on target in their last outing at home to Arsenal, so to counteract that happening again boss Brendan Rodgers packed his side with attacking talent.

But those forwards could do nothing about the lax defending behind them and that’s what earned Blackburn the opening goal on 33 minutes.

Poor concentration from Danny Ward and Ricardo Pereira saw Tyrhys Dolan bear down on goal and he fired in past the Foxes goalkeeper.

After the break once again it was Blackburn who were most dangerous in front of goal and they had a gilt-edged chance to double their advantage on 50 minutes.

Ryan Hedges stole the ball of Wout Faes and had just the goalkeeper to beat but skied his effort way over the bar.

The Lancashire side did get their goal though, as Sammie Szmodics poked in.

Kelechi Iheanacho got his obligatory FA Cup goal soon after however as he poked in after Harvey Barnes’s mazy run.

Match in progress …

De Zerbi De Light

Scorers: Ferguson 30′

Brighton showed why they were the team riding high in the Premier League as they beat Championship Stoke 1-0 to progress.

It was a frigid night in the Potteries with Brighton aiming to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 2017/18.

And it was the Seagulls who took the lead on 30 minutes as Evan Ferguson tapped in after great work from Kaoru Mitoma.

Into the second half and once again it was the Premier League outfit who seemed most likely to score with Mitoma causing all sorts of problems to the Stoke defence.

The home side’s best chance came just after the hour mark as Axel Tuanzebe’s header went over the Brighton goalkeeper but just past the far post.

But the south coast side held out as they made it through to the last eight.

Wednesday’s fixtures

Southampton v Grimsby

Burnley v Fleetwood

Manchester United v West Ham

Sheffield United v Tottenham