Colchester United 2-3 Sheffield United

Chris Porter's late penalty settled an all-League One clash in the FA Cup first round as Sheffield United defeated plucky Colchester.

The Blades had raced into a 2-0 lead with a Harry Maguire header and an own goal by goalkeeper Sam Walker.

But Macauley Bonne nodded in Luke Garbutt's cross to reduce the deficit and then Garbutt fired in from 25 yards to level just after the hour mark.

However, Porter won it from the spot after Magnus Okuonghae handled.

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Colchester manager Joe Dunne told BBC Essex:

"Magnus Okuonghae is one yard away. How has he got a reaction time to make a decision to deliberately block that ball?

"It is impossible to get away from. It's an appalling decision and it's cost us.

"Mags has got no time to react. It's not a penalty. I want anyone within PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited) to warrant that penalty to me.

"You know what they'll do? They'll say sorry. It's no good, we're out of the cup.

"You see a main stand shut down because we can't afford to open it, and we can't go through because we've been done by an official. We deserved a replay, and that would have given us another crack to get through."

Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough told BBC Radio Sheffield:

"A very hard earned but deserved victory.

"To get two goals up, should have been three, in the first half was a great opening period from us.

"We don't want to sit back, we want to get the third goal and eventually we got (the win) in a 2-2 situation which was well deserved.

"A third one would have really killed them off. It wasn't through the want of trying. We didn't sit back."