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Palace woes mount as Bristol City seal shock

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Premier League strugglers Crystal Palace were dumped out of the Carabao Cup as Bristol City came from behind to win 4-1 at Ashton Gate.

Bakary Sako had put Roy Hodgson’s much-changed side, who are bottom of the top-flight table with just three points, ahead in the 21st minute.

However, Matt Taylor equalised in the 34th minute and City were in front five minutes later through Milan Djuric.

Joe Bryan crashed home a third on the hour and Callum O’Dowda knocked in a fourth six minutes later to compound a miserable night for the Eagles.

Jesse Lingard scored twice as holders Manchester United won 2-0 at Swansea.

Lingard broke the deadlock in the 21st minute and then headed in a second on the hour as Jose Mourinho’s men looked to move on from Saturday’s Premier League defeat at Huddersfie­ld.

Premier League leaders Manchester City needed penalty kicks to get past Championsh­ip pacesetter­s Wolves, winning the shoot-out 4-1 after a goalless encounter and extra-time at the Etihad Stadium.

City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was the home hero with Sergio Aguero chipping in the final penalty to send Pep Guardiola’s side into the last eight.

Bournemout­h put their league troubles to one side with a 3-1 home win over Middlesbro­ugh while managerles­s Leicester came from behind to beat Leeds 3-1 at the King Power Stadium.

Arsenal came from behind to beat Norwich with two goals from teenage substitute Eddie Nketiah.

Josh Murphy had given the Championsh­ip side the lead in the 34th minute with a neat finish over Gunners debutant goalkeeper Matt Macey.

Nketiah equalised with five minutes to go having only just come on and the 18-year-old headed in after 96 minutes to send the Gunners through.

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