Millwall 0-3 Bristol City: Robins cruise into FA Cup fifth round to book Sheffield Utd tie
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FA Cup: Millwall 0-3 Bristol City highlights
Nahki Wells scored one goal and set up another at The Den to help Bristol City through to the FA Cup fifth round for only the second time in 20 years.
Famara Diedhiou put the visitors ahead from the penalty spot after ex-Robins keeper Frank Fielding brought him down.
Wells made it 2-0 when his 58th-minute free-kick spun off the Lions' defensive wall and left Fielding stranded.
Antoine Semenyo then collected Wells' crossfield pass and slotted home to set up a last-16 trip to Sheffield United.
United, bottom of the Premier League, beat Plymouth 2-1 to progress.
Millwall had the better of the opening half-hour, with Mason Bennett providing a threat from the flank and testing Max O'Leary with a low drive that the goalkeeper did well to push behind.
But the visitors drew first blood when Diedhiou, racing on to Zak Vyner's through ball, was felled by Fielding and picked himself up to tuck away the resulting spot-kick.
Diedhiou - who was red-carded in City's recent Championship defeat to Millwall - might have doubled his side's lead almost immediately, heading Adrian Mariappa's cross wide as City broke after Tommy Rowe's goal-line clearance had denied Tom Bradshaw an equaliser.
The Robins looked lively at the start of the second half and Semenyo fired a good opportunity into the side netting before Wells' deflected free-kick from 20 yards made it 2-0 and ended a personal run of 11 games without a goal.
Millwall's hopes of a comeback were finally snuffed out when Wells picked out Semenyo, who bisected two defenders and tucked his low finish beyond Fielding.
Although Bennett and Alex Pearce came close with long-range efforts for the struggling Lions, they have now failed to win any of their last nine home games.
Millwall manager Gary Rowett told BBC London 94.9:
"I chose to change eight players but, for a one-off game, we went with quite an attacking line-up and I thought we actually created some decent opportunities. We've got done by three poor goals on our behalf.
"Bristol City sat in and tried to counter-attack us and when we gave the ball away we allowed them to do so.
"At 1-0 down you still feel there's a chance but then they get a free-kick and, symptomatic of our luck a bit at the moment, it wrong-foots the keeper and suddenly we're 2-0 down in a game where there's not really anything in it."
Bristol City head coach Dean Holden told BBC Radio Bristol:
"Three goals and a clean sheet is excellent but I thought the performance itself was very, very good. We've got into the final third a couple of times with some really incisive passing in the first half and it was a really good penalty.
"Nahki's goal goes down as a deflected free-kick but he's hit a fantastic one first half where Frankie Fielding made a really good save, so I think he deserves that for his performance.
"The third is as good a goal as you'll see this weekend, with Nahki's vision and execution to find Antoine on the other side of the pitch - and what a fantastic finish with his left foot."
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