By Victor Kanayo
Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City on Saturday won their FA Cup matches convincingly against their lowly-rated sides.
However, Brentford were the only Premier League side to fall to lower league opposition as Plymouth, who sit bottom of the Championship, stunned the Bees 1-0.
Earlier, Liverpool thrashed Accrington Stanley 4-0 to cruise into the FA Cup fourth round, almost same margin Chelsea deployed against Morecambe 5-0.
For Chelsea, Portuguese international and Tosin Adarabioyo both scored twice, while Christopher Nkunku made up for missing an early penalty by netting his 13th goal of the season.
High-flying Nottingham Forest continued their excellent season with a comfortable 2-0 win over Luton.
Brighton were 4-0 winners at Norwich as Georginio Rutter struck twice.
Bournemouth shrugged off the loss of strikers Evanilson and Enes Unal to long-term injuries this week to roar back from 1-0 down to hammer West Brom 5-1.
Leicester went one better by hitting QPR for six in a 6-2 thriller at the King Power.
Later on, same day, Manchester City heaped an 8-0 defeat on Salford City.
Wolves’ bright start under new boss Vitor Pereira continued as early goals from Rayan Aït-Nouri and Rodrigo Gomes secured a 2-1 win at Bristol City, as captured by AFP.
