Exeter City v Nottingham Forest goes to extra time: FA Cup – live
Key events
ET 92 min: Magennis fancies his hat-trick! A poor defensive header falls to the veteran striker who takes one touch on his chest and volleys at goal. Sels gets down well to his right to save the dipping effort!
Peeeeeep! Extra time is underway in Devon.
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What a cup tie this is! Forest will fancy their chances of finishing this in extra-time but before the match, they would have fancied their chances of having this wrapped up by 90 minutes. But here we are.
Exeter are living dangerously but still have a threat on the break. Forest are perhaps a little lucky that their starting keeper, Carlos Miguel, sustained an injury. The Brazilian was having a howler and looked particularly uncomfortable from set pieces. Sels has steadied the ship in that regard.
End of 90 minutes: Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
To extra-time we go!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+21 min: Jota hits the post for Forest. An absolute hammer against Whitworth’s near post. The Exeter keeper knew nothing of it, such was the ferocity of the strike!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+19 min: Chance for Exeter! Jones gets the better of Alex Moreno, steadies himself inside Forest’s penalty area and steers his shot just a yard wide of Sels’ post! Oooooooooh, was that Exeter’s chance to win it at the death?!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+17 min: Here come Forest. First Jota stings the hands of Whitworth, then Anderson curls his shot high over the bar. But the onslaught is surely only just beginning.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+15 min: Remarkable that Exeter still have two strikers up top, despite the fact that they have 10 men. The League One side will hope to hold on for extra time and penalties, surely. It’s not clear how much more time we will have as there was such a long stoppage for Awoniyi’s injury.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+12 min: Awoniyi is eventually carried off on a stretcher, with the home Exeter fans giving the Forest striker a standing ovation. Let’s just hope that this level of medical care is precautionary, rather than something worse.
Forest have used all their substitutes but are able to make a concussion substitute due to the nature of Awoniyi’s injury. Chris Wood comes on. Not what the home fans wanted to see.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+9 min: Awoniyi is still down. There is a strange but understandable atmosphere in the ground, with both sets of supporters concerned for the Forest striker. Some players are trying to keep warm and loose with a few balls being pinged around the pitch. On the sidelines both managers are issuing instructions to anyone that will listen.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90+5 min: A lengthy stoppage here with Forest’s Awoniyi down with a head injury. The medical staff are taking no chances and the ambulance team are being called on. Awoniyi is still down, they are taking their time. We can only hope that the Nigerian is OK.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
90 min: Ten minutes added on here! Still plenty of time for Forest to get this done before extra time against 10 men.
Full-time: Sporting 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Sporting haven’t won a Champions League match since Amorim left the club in early November. They looked a little rudderless but this is a huge result for Dortmund and their new manager, Niko Kovac.
Full-time: Juventus 2-1 PSV
A fair result. Juventus didn’t play their best game but the subs made the difference off the bench.
RED CARD FOR EXETER’S TURNS!
Ed Turns catches Gibbs-White late and high, and it shows a straight red. It’s perhaps a little harsh, not deliberately a terrible tackle, just very, very clumsy. Exeter suddenly face a huge uphill task, but can they get to extra time?
GOAL! Sporting 0-3 Borussia Dortmund (Adeyemi 84)
A classic counter-attack goal as Sporting press for a way back into the match. But Dortmund’s third goal might be the one that kills the tie. It’s Adeyemi that sprints away at pace, playing a clever one-two with Brandt, and the striker streaks clear of his marker to place an easy sidefoot finish past Rui Silva. What a night for the German side!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
84 min: Exeter remains a threat and have two corners to put pressure on Forest’s goal again but both deliveries fail to hit their mark, the second corner is particularly disappointing as it fails to beat the first man. Exeter win another free-kick though and this time Sels is forced to punch. The Grecians could yet win this!
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GOAL! Juventus 2-1 PSV (Mbangula 81)
Conceicao scampers down the right to the byline, pulls the ball back … Benitez in PSV’s goal can only parry the cross into Mbangula path and the Belgian converts the rebound, placing his finish high into the roof of the net. More terrible goalkeeping, but Juventus won’t care!
Juventus 1-1 PSV
77 min: Juventus are becoming increasingly frustrated and have thrown on Conceicao, Koopmeiners, Vlahovic, and Thuram as they try to find another goal to take to the Netherlands. PSV have been excellent this second half will be delighted with a 1-1 draw if it finishes like this.
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
74 min: Forest make a couple of telling substitutions – Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White replace Ryan Yates and Ibrahim Sangare – with Gibbs-White instantly testing Whitworth with a low shot to the near post. Forest won’t want this to go to extra time with lots of important games to come.
Sporting 0-2 Dortmund
70 mins: Sporting seem to have realised that this tie is slipping away from them and have suddenly stepped things up. Gyökeres is now on, and the Portuguese side are pushing for a goal as coveted centre-back Diomande flashes a shot just over Kobel’s bar.
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GOAL! Sporting 0-2 Borussia Dortmund (Gross 67)
A one-two punch from Dortmund, who score a near-identical goal to their first. This time Guirassy turns provider, delivering another cracking cross from that right wing. Pascal Gross, formerly of Brighton of course, ghosts in completely unmarked at the back post and knees the ball into the corner. It’s a cool, improvised finish after the ball whizzed past a couple of Sporting heads. Dortmund 2-0 up!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
62 min: Niskanen goes close for Exeter! Could they really nick a winner?! The Finnish’s finish draws Sels into a brilliant save just a few minutes after coming on. Forest are living dangerously!
GOAL! Sporting 0-1 Borussia Dortmund (Guirassy 60)
A simple yet beautiful goal! Brandt has time and space to cross on the right wing and the German curls one to the back post. Guirassy gets up early above the Sporting defenders and plants a wonderful looping header over Rui Silva and into the far corner! Huge goal in the tie!
Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest
58 min: Forest are going to have to change their keeper with Carlos Miguel suffering an injury. The Brazilian has has a nightmare night in Devon. Completely at fault for Exeter’s first goal, he perhaps could have done better for their second too, failing to come for the cross that led to Magennis’s shot. Sels, arguably the best keeper in the Premier League this season, is on.
GOAL! Juventus 1-1 PSV (Perisic 55)
A sumptuous goal by the Croatian veteran! It’s against the run of play, but this is a goal full of quality with Perisic controlling a rebounded shot with the deftest of touches, cutting inside Kelly and firing a lazer of a left-footed shot inside Di Gregorio’s near post! Perisic has always been very two-footed and you won’t see a better example: right-foot control, left-foot finish.
The goal was checked by VAR for a PSV handball by Lang in the build-up, but eventually given. I think the Dutch side are a bit lucky to get away with that one, personally!
GOAL! Exeter 2-2 Nottingham Forest (Boly og 51)
Exeter are level! From a corner Magennis wins a back post header, the ball pinballs around the six-yard box, and the Northern Ireland striker somehow turns the loose ball home! It was a horribly messy strike, bobbling in off Boly’s foot I think, but Exeter won’t care. St James Park erupts!
Exeter 1-2 Nottingham Forest
49 min: “Oi,” emails Damian Clarke reacting to the height of Exeter goalkeeper Joe Whitworth. “Just 5ft8in? 5ft5in goalkeeper here. Thank you very much (OK, indoor five a side veterans). But still …”
“Now that Liverpool has fallen victim to the Pilgrims’ progress, I’m rooting for the underdogs in the FA Cup,” writes Peter Oh. “Come on Exeter! By the way, I’m wondering how much League One players make. How much does a Grecian earn?”
Looks like the best paid Exeter players make around £3-4k a week. Not too shabby, but less than Morgan Gibbs-White makes in a lunchbreak. Probably.
Juventus 1-0 PSV
47 min: Mbangula has come on for Yilmaz at half-time. That’s a straight swap but I’m surprised by that. The Turkish international was fairly bright.
Peeeeeeeeep!
We are live in the Champions League matches and will be up and running again with Exeter v Forest shortly.
Half-time reading:
Half-time: Exeter 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Whitworth, who has let in two goals but otherwise been excellent for Exeter, does very well to clear away a corner from under his own crossbar through a crowded penalty area just before the half-time whistle. The keeper, on loan from Crystal Palace, stands at just 5ft8in!
Half-time: Sporting 0-0 PSV
Goalless at the break.
Half-time: Juventus 1-0 PSV
The Old Lady are well worth their lead.
