Manchester United seemed to be cruising after a powerful striker from Michael Carrick late in the first half however a corner from John Oster met Bryan Gunnarsson's header to tie the score.
Chelsea comfortably dispatched Norwich to gain a place in the quarter finals. The first goal, however, did need a hint of fortune with a Shaun Wright-Phillips strike taking a huge deflection of a Norwich defender.
Drogba scored the second goal of the game - taking his tally up to 26 for the season.
Two late strikes from Essien and Shevchenko made, what was a battling display from the Canaries, look more impressive than it was.
Watford beat a ten man Ipswich team 1-0.
However it was a last minute goal that saved the bottom of the table team from facing a replay.
After the sending off of debutant O'Callaghan, however, Watford were the stronger team but did not look like they were able to capatilise untill Damien Francis scored late on.
By no means were Ipswich playing defensivley with former Fulham man Legwinski hitting the bar from an impressive strike and a goal ruled out for offside.
Brad Fridel was the star man after a fine late double save earnt Mark Hughes' men a replay against Arsenal.
Arsenal felt hard done by after wasted chances from Thierry Henry and Justin Hoyte late on and a penalty claim on Alialidere was turned down.
Whilst Arsenal always looked on top a strike from Blackburn's Matt Derbyshire could of spelled a cup upset if it was not a fine save from Almunia.
Another cup replay was to be found at the Riverside with Middlesborough and West Brom sharing the spoils.
The Championship team battled back from behind twice in the game, with Kevin Phillips reminding Premiership fans that he is just as good as he used to be.
The game was somewhat tarnished after young defender Curtis Davies was sent off for a terrible tackle on Mark Viduka.
Before Arca's opening goal Middlesborough had had a spate of chances, the best of which was a header from Pogatez cleared off the line.
Just after Kamara levelled the score Davies made an untidy tackle on Yakubu ( possibly a sign of things to come) and made up for his penalty misses in the week to give the Premiership team the lead before Phillips scored the decisive final goal.
Plymouth will be flying the Championship flag for sure in the quarter finals after beating leaders Derby 2-0 through a copntroversial penaly from Gallen and a strike from on-loan striker Sinclair. |
