The Sunday Post (Dundee)

Lions king Cummings leaves

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TEN-MAN Millwall booked their place in the sixth round after Shaun Cummings’ last-minute strike condemned Leicester to another miserable defeat.

The League One side had to play the majority of the second half without Jake Cooper after he was sent off in the 51st minute for a second bookable offence. But the deficit only inspired Millwall to a famous victory with Cummings finding the net in the 90th minute to heap more pressure on Claudio Ranieri and his beleaguere­d team.

With more than one eye on their Champions League trip first-leg clash at Sevilla next week and their Premier League encounter against Liverpool a week on Monday, Ranieri made 10 changes to his side that lost at Swansea.

Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez were relegated to the bench while Demarai Gray was the only survivor from the 2-0 defeat at the Liberty Stadium.

Millwall, sixth in League One, may have sensed an opportunit­y to shock the Premier League champions, but it was Leicester who enjoyed the better start.

Shinji Okazaki found himself through on goal, but he was off-balance and keeper Jordan Archer managed to parry his shot away. Ahmed Musa was there for the follow-up, but his quickfire shot was superbly blocked by Byron Webster. Okazaki then saw his header from the resulting corner magnificen­tly palmed away by the Millwall keeper.

The Foxes, despite their miserable recent form, were upping the ante and it only seemed a matter of time before they would open their account.

But on a bobbly pitch, roared on by a raucous crowd, the hosts ended the first half on top.

Calum Butcher’s header from a corner called Ron-Robert Zieler

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