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FA Cup fifth-round review:

Leicester beat Peterborough 5-1 (January 27 2018)

A round-up of Saturday's action in the fourth round of the FA Cup, including wins for Southampton, Leicester and Wigan.

FA Cup results

Peterborough 1-5 Leicester
Huddersfield 1-1 Birmingham
Hull 2-1 Nottingham Forest
MK Dons 0-1 Coventry
Middlesbrough 0-1 Brighton
Millwall 2-2 Rochdale
Notts County 1-1 Swansea
Sheffield United 1-0 Preston
Southampton 1-0 Watford
Wigan 2-0 West Ham
Newport 1-1 Tottenham
Liverpool 2-3 West Brom

Jon Stead's goal earned Notts County a deserved replay as they came from behind to draw 1-1 with Swansea in the FA Cup fourth round.

Luciano Narsingh's strike on the stroke of half-time put the Premier League's bottom club ahead but the underdogs responded with gusto and Stead scored the equaliser just after the hour mark.

With Swansea fighting to preserve their top flight status and Notts County battling for automatic promotion from League Two, a replay is probably what neither wanted but the two teams will do it all again at the Liberty Stadium next month.

Glenn Murray came off the bench at Middlesbrough to fire Premier League Brighton into the fifth round without knowing a great deal about it.

The striker, who was this week arrested along with his wife as part of a £1.1million tax investigation, was in the right place at the right time for defender George Friend to blast a 90th-minute clearance straight at him and look on as the ball flew into the Boro net.

It was tough luck on the Sky Bet Championship side, who had hit the post before the break through Adama Traore, although the much-changed visitors were significantly better after that to clinch a 1-0 win.

Lukas Jutkiewicz's second-half equaliser earned Birmingham a deserved replay as tie at Huddersfield ended 1-1.

Jutkiewicz arrowed home a low shot nine minutes into the second period after Steve Mounie's emphatic header had given the Premier League side an interval lead.

Another bite at the cherry was just reward for Steve Cotterill's Sky Bet Championship strugglers, who comfortably held their own against Huddersfield, who still look out of sorts after their recent top-flight struggles.

Ben Thompson's 90th-minute equaliser salvaged a 2-2 draw for Millwall against League One strugglers Rochdale in what was a gripping tie.

The Lions, quarter-finalists in last season's competition, were on the brink of being the victims of a shock, with the Dale making light of the 32 league places between the two teams.

Matt Done's goal put them agonisingly close to reaching the fifth round for just the third time in their history, but they will get a second crack in 10 days' time.

New signing Fousseni Diabate and Kelechi Iheanacho both struck twice as Leicester advanced with a 5-1 win at Peterborough.

Onyinye Ndidi also got on the scoresheet in the latter stages as Claude Puel's side brushed aside their League One opponents at the ABAX Stadium.

Diabate made an instant debut impression by opening the scoring after just nine minutes and Iheanacho, who also grabbed a double against Fleetwood the third round, added two more before the interval.

Andrew Hughes shot through a crowded area to give Posh a glimmer of hope just before the hour but Diabate and Ndidi put the gloss on Leicester's performance in the closing minutes.
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