Forest scrape past Bury on penalties

NOTTINGHAM FOREST struggled into the next round as they had to rely on penalties to get past League Two BURY. Eoghan O’Connell headed past Jordan Smith to give Bury an unlikely secondminute lead over the fourtime winners. Things got worse for Smith when he was sent off for bringing Dominic Telford down with the Bury man through on goal. Forest looked to be heading out, but Matty Cash chimed in with a 93rd-minute equaliser, before Forest won 10-9 on penalties. ‘Our players were determined to find an equaliser at the end,’ said Forest boss Aitor Karanka. ‘And in the penalties we were luckier than them.’

LINCOLN gave their fans hope of another fine cup run by inflicting a 4-0 drubbing on

PORT VALE. The Imps reached the quarter-finals of the 201617 FA Cup under Danny Cowley, and got off to a terrific start with goals from John Akinde, Jason Shackell, Matthew Green and Michael O’Connor. EXETER saw off

IPSWICH with a 4-2 victory on penalties. The match ended 1-1, and after Trevoh Chalobah’s miss the Grecians advanced. Steve McClaren was handed the perfect tonic to his tough start as QPR boss with a 2-0 win over PETERBOROUGH. The game was over within six minutes after Luke Freeman and Pawel Wszolek netted.

NORWICH got out of jail with two late strikes to see off a scare from STEVENAGE. The Canaries were drawing 1-1 with just 10 minutes left before Christoph Zimmermann and Teemu Pukki strikes secured a 3-1 win. Jamie Proctor bagged a double for

ROTHERHAM as they swiped aside fellow Championship new boys WIGAN with a 3-1 victory at the New York Stadium. OXFORD UNITED manager Karl Robinson was booked as his side overcame

COVENTRY CITY with a 2-0 win thanks to Marcus Browne and Gavin Whyte.

MANSFIELD’S Tyler Walker grabbed a first-half hat-trick as the Stags beat ACCRINGTON 6-1. Walker scored two from the spot and followed that with a deft flick to secure his treble.