NON-LEAGUE Lincoln City and third-tier Millwall struck late, late winners as Burnley and Premier League champion Leicester City were humbled on a historic day in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Lincoln is the first non-league team in 103 years to reach the FA Cup quarterfinals.
Sean Raggett scored an 89th-minute header as Lincoln, which resides in the fifth-tier National League, stunned Burnley 1-0 in the fifth round in one of the competition’s biggest upsets.
Ten-man Millwall, seventh in League One, claimed a third top-flight scalp in this season’s tournament by dramatically sinking ailing Leicester 1-0 via a 90th-minute goal by Shaun Cummings.
Second-half goals by Pedro and Diego Costa earned Premier League leader Chelsea a 2-0 win at second-tier Wolverhampton Wanderers, conquerors of Liverpool in the previous round.
But Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City faces an unwanted replay after drawing 0-0 at Championship high-flier Huddersfield Town, three days out from their Champions League last 16 showdown with Monaco.
“It is not frustrating,” Guardiola said. “It was a tough game against one of the best teams in the Championship.”
Eighty-one places below Burnley in the English soccer pyramid, Lincoln prevailed at Turf Moor when center-back Raggett squeezed a header over the line following a late corner.
Lincoln became the first non-league team to reach the FA Cup’s last eight since Queens Park Rangers in 1914.
The side is the eighth from below England’s four fully professional divisions to have beaten top-flight opposition since World War II and only the second to have done so since 1989.
(SD-Agencies)
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