Heartbreak for non-leaguers while Birmingham and Bristol City progress after goalfests

With Aston Villa dumping out Tottenham in an all-Premier League affair in London to pile additional stress into Spurs boss Thomas Frank, there have been three different 5.45pm kick-offs within the FA Cup Third Spherical on Saturday.

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Grimsby City 3-2 Weston-super-Mare

There was heartbreak for non-league facet Weston-super-Mare who couldn’t fairly emulate Macclesfield’s earlier heroics and fell to a 3-2 defeat at League Two outfit Grimsby City.

The Step 6 membership thought they’d completed sufficient to ship the tie to further time however substitute Kieran Inexperienced scored an 86th-minute winner to safe Grimsby passage into fourth spherical.

Charles Vernam’s tremendous shot from distance had put the Mariners 1-0 up shortly earlier than half-time, however Luke Coulson drew the Nationwide League South outfit degree – in what was their first look of their 138-year historical past within the competitors’s third spherical.

Jaze Kabia then. notched his eleventh purpose of the marketing campaign when he discovered the online to place Grimsby again in entrance.

However once more Weston hit again, with striker Louis Britton equalising from shut vary.

Nevertheless, with further time looming, the hosts went in entrance for a 3rd and ultimate time, with Inexperienced nodding residence from a nook.

Bristol Metropolis 5-1 Watford

A hat-trick from Emil Riis plus targets from Rob Atkinson and Anis Mehmeti noticed Bristol Metropolis cruise into the subsequent spherical following a scientific 5-1 thrashing of fellow Championship facet Watford.

Riis broke the impasse in simply the second minute earlier than Mehmeti doubled the hosts lead at Ashton Gate earlier than the break.

Defender Atkinson then nodded residence a 3rd earlier than Riis netted twice extra to place the sport to mattress both facet of Jack Grieves’ comfort for Watford.