Arsenal stunned in FA Cup by second-tier Forest

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Arsenal failed to transportation its improved Premier League signifier to the FA Cup, losing 1-0 to second-tier Nottingham Forest connected Sunday successful the 2nd large daze of the 3rd round.

By conceding an 83rd-minute extremity astatine the City Ground, Arsenal became the highest-ranked casualty astatine the signifier of the contention that sees Premier League teams participate the draw.

So inept was Arsenal's show that Mikel Arteta's squad failed to person a changeable connected people against Forest, a erstwhile European champion which has fallen connected hard times since the crook of the period and is ninth successful the Championship.

It was successful stark opposition to Arsenal's caller performances successful the Premier League that person helped to assistance the squad into the Champions League positions. Just past week, Arsenal outplayed person and defending champion Manchester City earlier imploding aft a second-half reddish card.

The FA Cup has served up immoderate surprises astatine the third-round stage, nary bigger than Newcastle losing astatine location to third-tier Cambridge United connected Saturday.

There looked to beryllium the anticipation of 2 much shocks earlier successful Sunday's aboriginal games, with Tottenham and Liverpool falling down astatine location to third-tier opponents lone to debar embarrassment.

A small spot of luck — oregon possibly it was pinpoint precision — proved important successful Tottenham's turnaround against Morecambe.

With his squad trailing 1-0 aft 73 minutes, Tottenham midfielder Harry Winks sent successful a escaped footwear from adjacent the country emblem connected the near helping and the shot flew implicit everyone and into the apical corner.

“This 1 I meant,” Winks said, laughing.

Substitutes Lucas Moura and Harry Kane added further goals successful the last 5 minutes to seal a 3-1 triumph for Spurs, who denied Morecambe a spot successful the 4th circular for the archetypal clip successful their 101-year history.

Liverpool won 4-1 but started its comeback overmuch earlier, equalizing 7 minutes aft going down successful the 27th to Shrewsbury.

Kaide Gordon, 1 of 5 academy players handed a commencement successful a youthful Liverpool lineup, became the second-youngest scorer successful the club's past — astatine 17 years and 96 days — with a coolly taken extremity for 1-1 earlier Fabinho scored either broadside of a cheeky backheel extremity from chap Brazilian Roberto Firmino, who came connected arsenic a substitute.

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp was backmost successful the dugout aft spending clip successful isolation pursuing a affirmative trial for the coronavirus, which came amid an outbreak astatine the nine which led to the grooming crushed getting closed for 2 days.

“This was the squad we could enactment up contiguous and the boys did truly well,” Klopp said of his makeshift team.

West Ham won an all-Premier League matchup against Leeds 2-0, with the important opening extremity — scored by Manuel Lanzini — controversially awarded aft a imaginable offside against Jarrod Bowen. Leeds players complained astir it connected the field, and its president did truthful via his Twitter account.

Bowen added a 2nd successful the stoppage clip arsenic Leeds made a third-round exit for the ninth clip successful the past 12 seasons.

Premier League teams Wolverhampton and Norwich besides precocious aft beating lower-league teams Sheffield United (3-0) and Charlton (1-0), respectively.

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