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London \u2014 Tottenham avoided an embarrassing FA Cup exit at the hands of third-tier Morecambe on Sunday as Liverpool were forced to come from behind to beat lowly Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n
West Ham beat Leeds 2-0 in the day’s only third-round match featuring two Premier League teams while Wolves saw off Championship side Sheffield United 3-0.<\/p>\n
Spurs needed a late flurry of goals from Harry Winks and substitutes Lucas Moura and Harry Kane to spare their blushes and beat League One club Morecambe 3-1.<\/p>\n
Tottenham made eight changes from the side that lost to Chelsea in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final in midweek, with Kane given his first rest under Antonio Conte.<\/p>\n
Morecambe boss Stephen Robinson was absent for the game against the club where he began his playing career after testing positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Spurs — 59 places higher than their opponents in the English league system — dominated the opening half an hour but the visitors went ahead in the 33rd minute when captain Anthony O’Connor converted from close range.<\/p>\n
The home were level in the 74th minute but they needed a fluke — midfielder Winks overhit a free-kick from the left-hand side but it caught goalkeeper Trevor Carson out and sailed into the far corner.<\/p>\n
Moura put Spurs ahead in the 85th minute after rounding the goalkeeper and Kane made sure Spurs would progress.<\/p>\n
Klopp returns<\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was back in the dugout at Anfield after finishing his isolation period following a positive test for Covid-19.<\/p>\n Liverpool named five youth team players in their team to face League One side Shrewsbury at home after a Covid-affected build-up to the match, with more academy players on the bench.<\/p>\n The Merseyside club have also had to deal with injuries and are without Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Naby Keita, all of whom are at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n Shrewsbury weathered almost half an hour of Liverpool possession but struck with their first real attack of any threat, when Daniel Udoh fired home from close range following a Nathanael Ogbeta cross.<\/p>\n Shrewsbury’s lead just seven minutes before Kaide Gordon scored his first goal for the club at the Kop end.<\/p>\n The 17-year-old controlled Conor Bradley’s low cross from the right with one foot in a crowded penalty area before slotting home with the other.<\/p>\n Just before half-time Liverpool were ahead when Ethan Ebanks-Landell handled in an aerial challenge with Virgil van Dijk and Fabinho scored the penalty.<\/p>\n Substitute Roberto Firmino increased Liverpool’s lead 12 minutes from time with a close-range backheel and Fabinho scored his second to make it 4-1 with the last kick of the game.<\/p>\n West Ham took the lead at the London Stadium in the 34th minute when Manuel Lanzini lashed home and Jarrod Bowen doubled the home side’s lead deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n Wolves beat Sheffield United courtesy of two goals from Daniel Podence and one from Nelson Semedo while Premier League strugglers Norwich saw off third-tier Charlton 1-0.<\/p>\n Fourteen-times FA Cup winners Arsenal are in action at Nottingham Forest in the late-kick off on Sunday.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Premier League side Newcastle suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at the hands of third-tier Cambridge, while non-league sides Kidderminster and Boreham Wood also booked their places in the fourth round.<\/p>\n AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London \u2014 Tottenham avoided an embarrassing FA Cup exit at the hands of third-tier Morecambe on Sunday as Liverpool were forced to come from behind to beat lowly Shrewsbury. West Ham beat Leeds 2-0 in the day’s only third-round match featuring two Premier League teams while Wolves saw off Championship side Sheffield United 3-0. Spurs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}