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#SaintsFC skipper @MayaYoshida3 congratulates @ShaneLong7 on his winner against #NCFC!

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#SaintsFC to face #Arsenal in round four of the #EmiratesFACup after @ShaneLong7’s goal downs #NCFC: http://sfcne.ws/ReportHNCFC

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Ticket details for #SaintsFC’s #EmiratesFACup clash with #Arsenal have been confirmed. More here: http://sfcne.ws/FACAFCH

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#SaintsFC’s @ShaneLong7 delighted to net the winner against #NCFC on his 100th appearance for the club: http://sfcne.ws/SLPostNCFCH

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The fans at #SaintsFC voted with their feet tonight.

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Only #Boro have scored fewer in the #PL

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:speaking_head: “We should have scored before we did, but we prevented extra-time and this is important.” #saintsfc http://sfcne.ws/PuelPostNCFCH

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Summary of non-mainstream articles: 18/01/2017 23:03:53

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We caught up with #SaintsFC’s @ShaneLong7 after he netted the winner against #NCFC at St Mary’s: https://grabyo.com/g/v/oAd2QjOdsl8

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We caught up with manager Claude Puel after #SaintsFC’s 1-0 win over #NCFC in the #EmiratesFACup: https://grabyo.com/g/v/YIuBuzQrhJI

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FA Cup fourth-round: The complete fixture list after replays are completed

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The FA Cup fourth-round draw is now complete

Liverpool edged past League Two Plymouth at Home Park, Southampton saw off Norwich at St Mary’s and Newcastle brushed aside Championship rivals Birmingham.

They now take their place in round four, along with the sides who won last night and in the original ties earlier this month.

And here is the confirmed draw in full.

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FA Cup third round replay results: Liverpool edge past Plymouth, Southampton snatch victory and Newcastle see off Birmingham

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Find out all the details of Wednesday’s FA Cup third round replay action…

Liverpool booked their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup after edging past Plymouth at Home Park on Wednesday night.

Lucas Leiva scored his first goal in seven years for the Reds to help Jurgen Klopp’s side navigate their way past a dangerous Pilgrims outfit.

Divock Origi squandered the chance to double Liverpool’s lead from the penalty spot after Alberto Moreno was fouled in the box.

The Merseyside club’s victory has earned them a home fourth round tie with Wolves and will be played between January 27-30.

Newcastle overcame their injury crisis to beat Birmingham at St James’ Park and secure their first FA Cup win since 2013.

Two goals from Matt Ritchie and a Yoan Gouffran strike handed the Magpies victory despite David Cotterill pulling one back for the Blues in the second half.

Newcastle will play Oxford United away in the fourth round.

Southampton sealed the latest of wins over Norwich to book their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

The game looked destined to enter extra-time before Shane Long struck in the last minute to ensure Claude Puel’s side progressed to the next stage.

The Saints will face Arsenal at home in the next round.

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Southampton 1-0 Norwich: Long fires Saints into FA Cup fourth-round

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Shane Long scored Southampton’s stoppage time winner against Norwich and the meagre home crowd celebrated wildly — as much in relief that the game was not going to extra time as that their side progressed from the FA Cup third round.

The goal was as scrappy as the game; the striker initially heading Sam McQueen’s cross straight at Norwich goalkeeper Michael McGovern before the ball came back to him and he forced it over the line.

If ever there was an advert for scrapping FA Cup replays it was this match.

‘If I’m being honest it’s a replay I wouldn’t have had,’ Norwich manager Alex Neil admitted.

‘I would’ve liked to see the first game played out, extra time or penalties and I think Southampton would say the same.’

Magic of the Cup? On the south coast it was disappearing supporters and the vanishing of any real desire to progress to the fourth round tie awaiting against Arsenal.

With it all went the will to live.

Thus an awkward game of makeshift sides played out and the other half of a usually packed stadium were justified in their decision to stay away.

Southampton manager Claude Puel’s reasoning for their absence was that ‘it was cold and it was not the Premier League’.

Southampton closed one of the main St Mary’s stands, as they do for cup games of little interest, and each side made eight changes to their previous game.

The match had an apathetic feel about it and as if to utterly drag the soul out of the occasion, Neil set up with five defenders.

‘It was good management of a difficult game,’ Puel said, ‘they packed the defence for 90 minutes.’

Josh Sims struck a near post shot from a tight angle on the right. It was saved.

Jay Rodriguez tried from a similar angle on the left a short while later. It was saved.

When the remainder of supporters loudly applauded Jordy Clasie’s long cross into the box which evaded everyone in the 27th minute, it largely summed the first 45 minutes up: Desperate.

An eerie atmosphere hung over proceedings due to the decline in numbers, steadily worsening while the game continued as if the supporters were pondering why they had bothered to make the effort.

That became no clearer in the second half as Norwich seemed to shift from five at the back to a 9-1 formation and anti-football reigned.

They did not have a single shot on target.

Southampton kept the ball and passed it around like they were down the road at their Staplewood training ground.

Finally, eventually — thank God — in the second minute of stoppage time Long managed to get the ball over the line and everyone was put out of their misery.

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Claude Puel on why @MayaYoshida3 deserved to captain #SaintsFC against #NCFC: http://sfcne.ws/CPOnMYCapt

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Southampton 1-0 Norwich: Shane Long strikes in stoppage time to set up Arsenal tie

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Southampton 1-0 Norwich: Shane Long strikes in stoppage time to set up Arsenal tie

Shane Long struck in stoppage time to give Southampton a 1-0 win over Norwich in their FA Cup third-round replay, setting up a home tie with Arsenal.

Long struck on the rebound in the second minute of stoppage time having initially seen his header saved by Michael McGovern after Saints had peppered Norwich’s goal in the second half.

Long went close twice after a dire first half, while Nathan Redmond had also forced McGovern into a save as Norwich looked to hold on for extra-time.

Southampton will play Arsenal at St Mary’s on Saturday, January 28 at 5.30pm.

Former Norwich forward Redmond spurned three fine second-half chances as this tie looked to be heading for extra-time, only for Long to produce his rescue act.

A dire first-half served up just one morsel for the paltry and wholly-underwhelmed crowd.

Sam McQueen’s shot was tipped onto the post by McGovern, before bouncing to safety.

The distinct lack of movement from statuesque forward pairing Jay Rodriguez and Long undermined every Saints attack.

Cuco Martina and Josh Sims grafted manfully enough down the right, but to entirely no avail.

The hosts upped the tempo after the break, but that was hardly any challenge. Sims’ low cross forced Ivo Pinto to turn the ball round the post, before Rodriguez flicked the ball across the face of goal.

Just when Saints sniffed the faintest scent of blood, Norwich broke with two quick passes. Kyle Lafferty just failed to connect with Josh Murphy’s teasing cross though, letting the home side off the hook.

James Ward-Prowse curled a smart free-kick just wide, with the rippling netting tricking the home faithful into thinking the midfielder had made the breakthrough.

Replacement and ex-Norwich man Redmond then fluffed three fine openings for victory, all in the final stages.

First he failed to dig the ball properly from under his feet with a shot, then he fired too close to McGovern. And most wasteful of all, he scuffed wide from 12 yards.

Long failed to gain any purchase attempting a header on Redmond’s cross, as Saints finally found fluency at the death.

And just when the clash looked odds-on for extra time, McQueen’s cross let Long grind the ball over the line for the winner.

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Southampton 1 Norwich City 0: Saints march on thanks to Shane Long’s injury-time winner

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Neil stressed that his options had been limited. “We came with a game-plan to get players behind the ball; all our midfielders were out,” he said. “I could not have asked more of them. They were disciplined, worked hard and I felt for the players to lose it in the way they did. The fans were fantastic. It was a replay, if I had the choice, I would not have had. I made no claims that this would be a priority.”

Puel is now looking forward to the prospect of facing his old mentor Arsene Wenger in the next round. “It will be an interesting game with quality on the ground,” he said.

Both managers had made eight changes here. Yet if that felt like a clear message from Neil about the game’s importance in the context of chasing a play-off position in the Championship, it was almost standard practice for Southampton.

Puel has never fielded the same team in successive matches and this was now 187 changes in his 32 games as manager. That comes at an average of almost six rotations in every single match.

He did start here with the senior attacking experience of Jay Rodriguez and Shane Long, albeit with the influence of six academy graduates further back. It meant a rare rest for Virgil van Dijk at centre-back, even if it would barely have mattered if Southampton had fielded a team of defensive mannequins for most of the match.

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