Bristol City

Bristol City manager Liam Manning to BBC Match of the Day: "Tough game, conceding the goals early on made it a challenge. We were a little bit off. The intent was there but naturally if you play good players and you arrive a little bit late, you get opened up.

"I thought in the second half we controlled a lot without making many chances. We need to take the lesson from today and bounce into the league against Coventry.

"It's a constant process, you have to get better and keep turning up. Today was a big lesson, we probably showed them too much respect early on.

"You want to turn up and give the best account of yourselves. We didn't do that for 95 minutes."

On Bristol City hitting the bar late on: "No idea how it doesn't go in to be honest. But yeah, shoulda, woulda, coulda.

"We're under no illusion we have a lot of work to do. But when you look at it, it wasn't a huge gulf in the second half, and that was the most pleasing thing."

That is Jonathan Varane's first goal in senior football. The 23-year-old midfielder was a summer signing from Sporting Gijon.

Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport football news reporter

Chelsea have got a strong XI to face Morecambe with only academy winger Tyrique George given a chance in the starting line up.

Even the bench is strong as Josh Acheampong is alongside the likes of Cole Palmer, Nicolas Jackson and Levi Colwill.

There are 87 places between Champions League-chasing Chelsea and relegation-fighting Morecambe in the football pyramid.

Chelsea are four games without a win and can ill-afford a slip up in the FA Cup third round.

Interestingly, there is no Noni Madueke in Enzo Maresca's 20-man squad at Stamford Bridge.

Brentford boss Thomas Frank makes six changes to the side that defeated Southampton for their first away win of the Premier League season.

Full-back Rico Henry makes his first appearance since suffering a knee injury in September 2023 while Fabio Carvalho also returns after a two-game absence.

Brentford XI: Valdimarsson; Roerslev, Kim, Van den Berg, Henry; Yarmoliuk, Maghoma, Jensen; Damsgaard Carvalho, Schade.

Subs: Flekken, Wissa, Mbeumo, Meghoma, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Konak, Yogane, Arthur.

Plymouth Argyle make four changes from the goalless draw at Stoke City on Saturday.

Ghana midfielder Michael Baidoo is handed a debut after joining the Championship side last week while Caleb Roberts, Callum Wright and Victor Palsson also return to the line-up.

Plymouth Argyle XI: Hazard; Galloway, Pleguezuelo, Palsson; Mumba, Wright, Randell, Sorinola; Roberts, Whittaker, Baidoo.

Subs: Grimshaw, Ogbeta, Szucs, Cissoko, Bundu, Puchacz, Gyabi, Al Hajj, Issaka.

QPR's first good chance of the game. Ilias Chair hammers a shot towards the top corner from outside the box which is palmed away by Jakub Stolarczyk.

That was James Justin's first goal of 2025. His only two goals in 2024 both came against Arsenal - in a 4-2 loss in September.

John Acres
BBC Final Score reporter at the Gtech Community Stadium

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New Plymouth coach Miron Muslic will be in the stands for this afternoon's game.

He is yet to meet the players and will take his first training session on Monday.

He was asked whether he wanted to be known around Home Park as "Gaffer" but decided that "Boss" might fit better.

Kevin Nancekevill will take the team today aided by club captain Joe Edwards.

Marc Webber
BBC Final Score reporter at the Vitality Stadium

Image source, Marc Webber

The West Brom players have been out checking the pitch ahead of this game against Bournemouth.

After leaving temperatures of minus four yesterday, they’ll be basking in the balmy heat of plus five Celsius by the seaside this afternoon.

A double blow for Bournemouth with two key players in Enes Unal and Evanilson out through injury, but there’s still a desire to progress in this competition.

The headlines about West Brom are all about who will be their next manager. So, an attention-grabbing Cup victory under stand-in boss Chris Brunt may be just the tonic for the travelling fans today.

Bournemouth XI: Kepa, Soler, Huijsen, Zabarnyi, Hill, Winterburn, Adams, Kluivert, Brooks, Aarons, Ouattara.

Subs: Dennis, Travers, Kerkez, Cook, Jebbison, Semenyo, Akinmboni, Kinsey, Rees-Dottin.

West Brom XI: Wildsmith, Styles, Taylor, Holgate, Furlong, Racic, Mowatt, Diangana, Grant, Fellows, Swift.

Subs: Wallace, Molumby, Heggem, Diakite, Johnston, Frabotta, Cann, Bostok, Cole.

Norwich XI: Long, Stacey, Cordoba, Doyle, Chrisene, Nunez, McLean, Forson, Schwartau, Dobbin, Crnac.

Subs: Gunn, Duffy, Hills, Mahovo, Fisher, Gordon, Hernandez, Myles, Sargent.

Brighton XI: Steele, Veltman, Van Hecke, Webster, Estupinan, Baleba, Ayari, Enciso, Minteh, Mitoma, Georginio.

Subs: Verbruggen, March, Gruda, Adingra, Moder, Welbeck, O'Riley, McConville, Turns.

More hesitation at the back for QPR and Jamie Vardy's shot is deflected wide after a poor clearance.

He's got a lot of qualities and Jayden Dann showed most of them in this goal as Liverpool joined Aston Villa in the hat for round four.

LFC_Ireland78 on X:Jack 14:01. Obviously forgetting about Jayden Danns scoring past Chelsea last season then....

Plenty to enjoy in Accrington's endeavour and spirit but in the end a routine enough win for Liverpool whose fine season rolls on.

Nedum Onuoha
Former Manchester City defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

Accrington Stanley have managed to hold their own.

Now a QPR mistake at the back almost gives Leicester a chance. There is some confusion about whether goalkeeper Joe Walsh or one of his defenders is going to deal with a long ball - and City's Stephy Mavididi gets the ball instead - but he's forced so wide he can't do anything with it.

It's so foggy that I genuinely couldn't really see who was involved. Can just see the shirt colours really.

Chelsea XI: Jorgensen; James, Tosin, Diasi, Viega; Lavia, Nkunku; Felix, George, Neto; Guiu.

Subs: Sanchez, Colwill, Acheampong, Gusto, Cucurella, Enzo, Palmer, Sancho, Jackson.

Morecambe XI: Burgoyne, Hendrie, Williams, Stott, Tutonda; White, Jones; Tollitt, Songo'o, Edwards, Dackers.

Subs: Scales, A. Lewis, Taylor, Macadam, Hope, Angol, Slew, P. Lewis, Dobson.