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Wolves reach fourth round with win at Bristol City

Premier League club Wolves eased into the fourth round of the FA Cup with a clinical win at Championship side Bristol City.

Wolves named a strong line-up and opened the scoring in the 10th minute through in-form wing-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, who headed in Joao Gomes' low cross.

The visitors doubled their lead 11 minutes later as Rodrigo Gomes surged into the box, beat a defender and calmly finished into the bottom corner.

Bristol City's Scott Twine halved the deficit with a superb free-kick which found the top corner from 25 yards out.

And in the closing stages, Bristol City were inches away from an equaliser after Ait-Nouri headed a wide Twine free-kick against the underside of his own crossbar.

The Robins, eighth in the Championship, pushed in the final minutes but were ultimately unable to break down a Wolves side who are 17th and only out of the top flight's relegation zone on goal difference.

Sloppy Wolves almost punished

Wolves are four-time winners of the FA Cup, although they last lifted the trophy in 1960.

Last season they reached the quarter-finals, losing to a late Coventry comeback.

Going by their fast start at Ashton Gate, Vitor Pereira's side appear to be taking the competition seriously this year too.

Ait-Nouri, who has been linked with a move to Liverpool this month, almost poked the visitors in front in the opening exchanges, while Goncalo Guedes had a tame shot blocked on the line by George Tanner at 1-0.

In the second half, Hwang Hee-chan hit a cut-back over the bar and Rodrigo Gomes clattered a shot against the near post when through on goal.

Pablo Sarabia also struck the post with a fierce, low driven shot from distance.

Wolves' sloppy finishing was almost punished late on though when Ait-Nouri headed against his own bar with City's Ross McCrorie just behind him hoping to nod in.

Having spent much of the match searching for a third, Wolves finished the game trying to run down the clock and keeping the ball by the Bristol City corner flags.

Pereira gave a debut to defender Emmanuel Agbadou, who completed a £16.6m move from French side Reims on Thursday and the Ivory Coast international had an error-free game.

The draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup will be live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer following the conclusion of the Arsenal v Manchester United, which kicks off at 15:00 GMT on Sunday.

Player of the match

Number: 19 Rodrigo Gomes
Average rating 7.98
Number: 10 S. Twine
Average Rating: 6.52
Number: 1 M. O’Leary
Average Rating: 5.30
Number: 24 H. Roberts
Average Rating: 5.23
Number: 12 J. Knight
Average Rating: 5.21
Number: 19 G. Tanner
Average Rating: 5.19
Number: 2 R. McCrorie
Average Rating: 5.13
Number: 15 L. McNally
Average Rating: 5.06
Number: 29 M. McGuane
Average Rating: 4.99
Number: 11 A. Mehmeti
Average Rating: 4.98
Number: 7 Y. Hirakawa
Average Rating: 4.94
Number: 14 Z. Vyner
Average Rating: 4.91
Number: 40 G. Earthy
Average Rating: 4.73
Number: 21 N. Wells
Average Rating: 4.70
Number: 6 M. Bird
Average Rating: 4.58
Number: 9 F. Mayulu
Average Rating: 4.10

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