Chelsea v Morecambe, Leicester v QPR, and more: FA Cup third round – clockwatch

Exeter: Whitworth, Fitzwater, Crama, Yfeko, McMillan, Jake Richards, Woods, Harper, Watts, Mitchell, Magennis.

Subs: MacDonald, Francis, Aitchison, Alli, Niskanen, Jones, Doyle, McDonald, Bird.

Oxford: Ingram, ter Avest, Long, Thorniley, Leigh, Sibley, McEachran, Phillips, El Mizouni, Dembele, Scarlett.

Subs: Cumming, Brown, Vaulks, Placheta, Matos, Goodrham, Rodrigues, Ferdinan, Kioso.

Brentford: Valdimarsson, Roerslev, Kim, van den Berg, Henry, Jensen, Maghoma, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard, Carvalho, Schade.

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

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

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

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

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

Brighton: Steele, Veltman, Webster, Van Hecke, Estupinan, Ayari, Baleba, Minteh, Enciso, Mitoma, Rutter

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

Sunderland: Moore, Hume, O’Nien, Hjelde, Alese, Jones, Neil, Mayenda, Rigg, Aouchiche, Connolly.

Subs: Nna Noukeu, Rusyn, Bellingham, Isidor, Abdul Samed, Mepham, Aleksic, Johnson, Ogunsuyi.

Stoke: Johansson, Tchamadeu, Phillips, Wilmot, Stevens, Seko, Burger, Moran, Baker, Koumas, Cannon.

Subs: Bonham, Rose, Lawal, Gooch, Sidibe, Bae, Andre Vidigal, Tezgel, Ennis.

Ilias Chair is the first QPR player to test Jakub Stolarczyk, who saves well, but the Leicester keeper cannot do anything about Jonathan Varane’s effort. QPR had turned up the heat in the previous five minutes or so and after Harry Winks failed to clear, Varane gathered the ball and slammed it low and into the bottom corner from all of 25 yards.

Nottingham Forest: Carlos Miguel, Toffolo, Boly, Morato, Alex, Moreira, Ward-Prowse, Jota Silva, Yates, Sosa, Awoniyi.

Subs: Sels, Anderson, Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Elanga, Danilo, Milenkovic, Abbott.

Luton: Kaminski, Walters, Holmes, McGuinness, Bell, Nakamba, Walsh, Jones, Dabo, Nelson, Morris.

Subs: Krul, Andersen, Krauss, Woodrow, Adebayo, Mpanzu, Clark, Brown, Hashioka.

Chelsea: Jorgensen, James, Adarabioyo, Disasi, Veiga, Lavia, Pedro Neto, Nkunku, Joao Felix, George, Guiu.

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

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

Subs: Scales, Adam Lewis, Taylor, Macadam, Hope, Angol, Slew, Paul Lewis, Dobson.

Facundo Buonanotte is restored to the Leicester starting XI and it is his ball that creates the goal, a clipped in set-piece that James Justin bundles home off his toe. QPR keeper Joe Walsh makes a mess of it to let the Leicester player get there ahead of him.

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

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

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

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

First up we have that familiar 2pm kick-off Saturday kick-off, here are how the sides line up at the King Power:

Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Kristiansen, Faes, Winks, Soumare, Buonanotte, El Khannous, Mavididi, Vardy.

Subs: Iversen, Okoli, Thomas, Choudhury, Skipp, De Cordova-Reid, McAteer, Ayew, Daka.

QPR: Walsh, Ashby, Edwards, Clarke-Salter, Paal, Varane, Field, Kolli, Madsen, Saito, Chair.

Subs: Nardi, Dunne, Fox, Colback, Dixon-Bonner, Morgan, Smyth, Lloyd, Frey.

Perhaps Scottish glam rock band Pilot were not singing about the sunrise over Edinburgh, but the enduring appeal of the FA Cup when they wrote 1975 hit Magic – ‘Ho, ho, ho, it’s magic you know, never believe it’s not so…’

The message is clear, we just have to believe in the magic, never forget to reference it to and then it will survive. Nothing says ‘magic’ quite like a slate of Saturday 3pm games headlined by the Chelsea’s billionaire backups kicking the crap out of the club currently second bottom of the Football League (Morecambe) or Bournemouth v West Brom.

Still, we plod on and look further down the fixture list in search of an upset opportunity. Perhaps Exeter, currently mid-table in League One, can overcome Oxford United, who – remarkably – are currently in the second tier for the first time this millennium. What chance a new manager bounce at Plymouth as they take on Brentford? Seagull pessimism tells me Norwich have a chance against a Brighton team lacking a recognised striker, so there’s that. Nottingham Forest v Luton, the artist formerly known as a Premier League relegation scrap, now looks like a routine win for Nuno’s European hopefuls.

Replays are clearly no longer magic, but extra-time and penalties definitely are, so we might get some of those this afternoon which is – er – depressing fun.

As a seasoned FA Cup third round observer, all of this sarcastic lack of belief in the ‘magic’ will of course prove incorrect and you, lucky reader, will get to follow along an afternoon of shocks with me. Please get in touch with your observations from the cup or the very limited league action (League Two, we see you).

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