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The FA CUP 3rd ROUND DRAW

The draw has been made for the 3rd round of this season's FA Cup and Blackburn Rovers will be away to the team that they knocked out of the Carling Cup - high flying Newcastle United! Manchester City drew Manchester United and should Fleetwood Town make it through their replay - a Lancashire derby will see them at home to Blackpool.

The Full Draw is ....

Middlesbrough v Shrewsbury - Nottingham Forest v Leicester City - Manchester City v Manchester United - Dagenham & Redbridge/Walsall v Millwall - Crawley v Bristol City
Doncaster v Sutton Utd/Notts County - Bristol Rovers v Aston Villa - Tottenham v Cheltenham Town - Sheffield Wednesday v West Ham - Milton Keynes Dons v QPR
Hull City v Ipswich Town - Coventry v Southampton - Brighton v Wrexham - Fulham v Charlton Athletic - Birmingham v Wolves - Norwich v Burnley - Arsenal v Leeds United
Derby v Crystal Palace - Fleetwood/Yeovil v Blackpool - Swindon v Wigan - Barnsley v Swansea - Chelmsford/Macclesfield v Bolton - Newcastle v Blackburn
Everton v Tamworth - Sheffield United v Salisbury City/Grimsby - Liverpool v Southend/Oldham - Gillingham v Stoke - Chelsea v Portsmouth - Watford v Bradford
Peterborough v Sunderland - West Brom v Cardiff - Reading v Stevenage

The games are penciled in for Saturday 7th January 2012 (TV to be announced later)
 
Saturday 7th January 2012
FA Cup 3rd Round
15:00hrs. BST
Att. 30'876
ROVERS OUT OF CUP
Newcastle United
Hatem Ben Arfa 69'50
Jonas Gutierrez 90+4'37 		Blackburn Rovers
David Goodwillie 33'08		 2-1
 
Blackburn Rovers knocked Newcastle United out of he Carling Cup with a last second goal, and the Toon repayed the compliment, knocking Rovers out of the FA cup in the final seconds of injury time. Rovers weathered an early storm in the North East, with Mark Bunn making some excellent saves. Then against the run of play David Goodwille made it two in two, as Pedersen's corner was met by Grant Hanley, parried by the Newcastle keeper and Goodwillie fired home from close range. It remained 0-1 at half time, and indeed until the 70th minute when Hatem Ben Arfa beat Mark Bunn with a great goal to level the scores. Rochina made way for Formica, then Jason Lowe replaced Martin Olsson, before young striker Jordan Slew came on for Goodwille with 8 minutes to go. Rovers looked to have secured an Ewood Park replay as injury time ran out - but with 4'37 seconds played Jonas Gutierrez grabbed the winner to knock them out of the FA cup for another year. Steve Kean admitted that Rovers defense was at fault once again, telling reporters "I think defensively we can pick holes in the two goals that went in against us. Okay it's good skill from Ben Arfa and Gutierrez, but I certainly think we could have defended a little bit better. But I felt as though our first half performance was excellent. Steven Nzonzi and Radosav Petrovic controlled the game in the middle of the pitch and I thought we were certainly worthy of at least being a goal up - possibly two. We would probably have needed that other goal as a cushion and it's a blow not to go through to the next round..... We're disappointed with the amount of time that was added on, because I think we were well over the allocated four minutes."
So now they really can concentrate on the league - and devote all their energies to retaining Premier status. It's back to Ewood next Saturday for Fulham at home, and another 'must win' match (7th January 2012)
 


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