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- Craig Mahood, Betting & Gaming Writer
- Updated: 19:27, 8 Feb 2025
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THE FA Cup 4th circular is good underway - with Newcastle level with Birmingham City RIGHT NOW!
Preston North End and Cardiff City won connected punishment shootouts earlier contiguous successful the 3pms.
Seven-time winners Manchester City avoided an upset astatine Brisbane Road to Leyton Orient arsenic Kevin De Bruyne provided the winning spark disconnected the bench.
Elsewhere, Millwall came retired connected apical successful their lunchtime clash with chap Championship broadside Leeds United, with a brace from Femi Azeez.
Chelsea's large clash astatine Brighton is wrapping up today's matches from 8pm.
- Kick disconnected times: 12.15pm/3pm/5.45pm/8pm
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Last of the night
The last crippled of the nighttime and the teams are successful the passageway astatine the Amex!
Brighton vs Chelsea squad news
Brighton: Verbruggen, Lamptey, Dunk, Georginio, Minteh, Welbeck, Baleba, Mitoma, Van Hecke, Veltman, Hinshelwood
Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, Tosin, Chalobah, Cucurella, Caicedo, Dewsbury-Hall, Neto, Palmer, Sancho, Nkunku
90+13 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
He is replaced. What a sub this is with seconds left.
- OFF: Osula
- ON: Isak
90+12 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Play stops for a caput sound connected Osula and helium looks similar he'll beryllium replaced.
90+11 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Hanley gets connected the extremity of it 8 yards from extremity but can't get immoderate acquisition connected his header and Pope is capable to travel disconnected his enactment to claim.
90+10 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Free footwear Birmingham conscionable wrong their ain half.
Maybe a past accidental to instrumentality this crippled to other time.
90+6 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Real end-to-end ending here.
A changeable from region onto the Newcastle extremity is anemic and consecutive astatine Pope who tries to instrumentality the sting retired things.
The visitors past travel guardant and Osula - hopeless to get connected the scoresheet - strikes from 20 yards but it flies implicit the top.
90+1 - Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
AGAIN it should beryllium necktie over!
Cochrane can't marque interaction with a cross-field shot and Murphy is cleanable done with lone the keeper to beat.
He could quadrate it for Osula for a pat successful but alternatively skips by the keeper and strikes astatine the bare net, lone for Davies to get backmost and wide disconnected the line.
88 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Almost crippled over!
The shot into the container for Tonali is large but 3 blues shirts propulsion themselves successful beforehand of it to block.
From Graeme Bryce astatine St Andrews
The 2nd fractional has failed to unrecorded up to the archetypal - small wonder! Sadly, Marc Leonard was stretchered disconnected aft taking a dense sound successful a clash with Lewis Miley.
There past followed a flurry of bookings earlier Joe Willock handed Newcastle the pb again with his 2nd extremity of the night, firing done Peacock-Farrell's legs.
Magpies 3-2 up.
84 – Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle
Birmingham astir onslaught back!
A country from the close is knocked goalward and Pope has to agelong and KICK the shot wide disconnected the line!
Brighton vs Chelsea squad news
Brighton: Verbruggen, Lamptey, Dunk, Georginio, Minteh, Welbeck, Baleba, Mitoma, Van Hecke, Veltman, Hinshelwood
Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, Tosin, Chalobah, Cucurella, Caicedo, Dewsbury-Hall, Neto, Palmer, Sancho, Nkunku
82 - GOAL!! Birmingham 2-3 NEWCASTLE
JOE WILLOCK puts the Toon up with 8 minutes to play!
It had been each Newcastle the past 10 minutes. Longstaff was slipped successful into the container connected the close but his changeable crossed extremity was blocked.
It falls kindly to Willock with a wide changeable astatine goal, debased and hard close done the keeper and into the net.
The distant fans spell brainsick down that goal!
76 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Triple alteration for Birmingham heading into the last 15 minutes.
- OFF: Stansfield, Anderson & Wright
- ON: Dykes, May & Bielik
74 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Football has gone retired the model for the location broadside and the referee is dilatory losing the plot.
Ben Davies with a cowardly situation successful the mediate of the parkland connected Osula but play continues.
Willock is past kicked and cleaned retired connected the genu by Willumsson who does get booked but someway Davies - the ex-Rangers flop - avoids a booking for a rather ridiculous challenge.
72 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Clearly a maneuver of the location broadside to usage these advertizing boards arsenic a backboard.
Klarer is beaten easy by Willock and past wholly disconnected the shot conscionable wipes Willock retired with a enarthrosis barge, close disconnected the park.
Another unspeakable challenge. Another yellowish card.
68 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Joe Willock present booked a infinitesimal oregon truthful aboriginal for jumping to effort and power the shot but ending successful a bump betwixt him and his man.
Never a yellowish paper but the referee possibly feeling helium has to aft booking Stansfield.
66 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Really mediocre from Stansfield again.
He enactment a mediocre situation successful in the archetypal fractional and followed it up by getting progressive successful a spot of a head-to-head with Osula earlier.
Now he's losing a duel adjacent the touchline with Schar and grabs the centre back's garment to propulsion him backmost and propulsion him into the advertizing boards.
Schar successful a large woody of symptom and lone a yellowish for Stansfield. Schar is perfectly raging. That won't beryllium the extremity of that one.
62 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Sadly it was a atrocious 1 for Marc Leonard arsenic a twelve physios each assemblage him.
A hush astir the stadium arsenic he's loaded onto the stretcher and taken off.
Hopefully it's not arsenic atrocious arsenic it looks.
56 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Leonard and Miley clash successful the mediate of the parkland and Leonard comes disconnected overmuch worse.
He's thumping the crushed successful agony but hopefully it's conscionable a atrocious knock.
54 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Another Newcastle alteration though this is enforced arsenic Dan Burn trudges disconnected hurt.
In fact, Howe is going to marque a treble alteration arsenic this time, 10 minutes into the 2nd half.
- OFF: Burn & Wilson
- ON: Schar & Murphy
50 – Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle
Really unsafe shot successful from Dowell from a heavy escaped kick.
It bends circular the backmost of the Newcastle enactment and cipher successful bluish tin marque up the crushed to get there.