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\nSouthampton’s Finn Azaz was brought down in the 90th minute, leading to Ross Stewart scoring a penalty<\/p>\n
League One strugglers Port Vale are into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in more than 70 years after boyhood Newcastle fan Ben Waine scored to stun Premier League Sunderland 1-0.<\/p>\n
Five days after getting the goal that knocked out Bristol City, Waine – a New Zealand international whose mum’s family hails from the north east of England – was at it again as his 28th-minute header gave Vale their first win over top-flight opposition since a fourth-round win over Everton 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
Jon Brady’s side sit rock bottom of the third tier, 11 points from safety in a 150th anniversary season that has offered little to celebrate so far, but this will go down as a famous day as they reached the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time since advancing to the semi-finals in 1954.<\/p>\n
Waine’s header was their only attempt on target in the 90 minutes but few inside Vale Park cared as the final whistle was greeted with huge celebrations.<\/p>\n
Sunderland had made only two changes from the side that beat Leeds in midweek to move up to 11th in the Premier League, but a side featuring more than \u00a3150million (\u20ac173m) worth of talent blew the opportunity for the two-time FA Cup winners to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1974.<\/p>\n
Southampton scored a stoppage-time penalty to defeat Fulham 1-0 at Craven Cottage to cause an FA Cup fifth-round upset.<\/p>\n
An intriguing tie looked bound for extra-time until the 90th minute when Republic of Ireland international Finn Azaz smartly kept himself onside and was tripped by the trailing boot of Joachim Andersen inside the box.<\/p>\n
From the spot, Ross Stewart hammered the ball hard and low into the corner beyond the fingertips of goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte to ensure there will be a Championship team in Monday’s quarter-final draw.<\/p>\n
\nSouthampton’s Finn Azaz was brought down in the 90th minute, leading to Ross Stewart scoring a penalty<\/p>\n
Fulham were without Harry Wilson, out with the ankle problem that forced him off during the home win against Tottenham, and in the absence of their best player there was a noticeable diminishing of creative output.<\/p>\n
Nine changes made by Marco Silva from the midweek defeat to West Ham also seemed to contribute to a lack of fluency and bite in possession, with Southampton carrying arguably the greater threat until Silva sent on second-half reinforcements to try to tip the balance.<\/p>\n
The Premier League side finally looked to be getting the better of Saints when, as the clock ticked over into the 90th minute, a moment of carelessness from Andersen handed Stewart the chance to spark delirious scenes in the away end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League One strugglers Port Vale are into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-335675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}