FA Cup fifth-round review

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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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David Moyes blasts Arthur Masuaku after spitting dismissal in FA Cup defeat (January 27 2018)

David Moyes hit out at Arthur Masuaku and called his dismissal for spitting "despicable" as West Ham crashed out of the FA Cup to 2013 winners Wigan in the fourth round.

Masuaku is facing a six-game ban after he spat at Latics forward Nick Powell near the touchline at the start of the second half of the Hammers' 2-0 loss at the DW Stadium.

Will Grigg scored twice as Wigan knocked out another Premier League opponent having ousted Bournemouth in the third round.

Masuaku's red card left Moyes seething after the midfielder reacted to Powell challenging him, spitting in his direction while the Wigan player started to walk away.

"Ultimately, Arthur, what he's done, was despicable," Moyes said.

"He will deserve everything he gets and he will get something off us as well. It's unacceptable, totally unacceptable.

"The referee (Chris Kavanagh) doesn't see it and can't see it. So it was the players' reaction that got him sent off. Ultimately they got the right decision so I can have no qualms about it."

Spitting carries a mandatory six-game suspension so Masuaku is now likely to be out until the middle of March.

That will further deplete a Hammers squad that may also be without Pedro Obiang for the foreseeable future after he came off with suspected medial ligament damage.

Moyes was already without eight senior players for this tie and he admitted he was stunned by Masuaku's act.

"I've not seen it from him," he added.

"We've given him a game, played him all the time, tried to give him a chance, he wasn't really in the team.

"We like him, he's a really good boy around the club. I've enjoyed him so I'd have to say it is out of character. If you do that then you're going to get the punishment in any walk of life.

"I just asked him, did he spit and he said, 'Yes'. You can't do that anywhere. We'll deal with it appropriately."