Grimsby and Stockport survive scares but Wednesday out
Exeter upset League One leaders Huddersfield
Seventh-tier Wimborne heaped more misery on Crawley as the bottom side in the Football League lost 2-0 in the biggest upset of the FA Cup first round.
The Dorset part-timers took the lead after only nine minutes when the property surveyor Yang Seung-woo curled a superb strike from just inside the penalty area into the top corner.
Crawley came close to equalising when Kai Jennings flashed a low shot narrowly wide before Jonny Russell headed tamely into the arms of the home goalkeeper Cam Plain.
Crawley’s interim manager, Kevin Blackwell, made a triple change at half-time and Charlie Barker fired inches wide for the team 57 places above their hosts in the pyramid. The Southern Premier League South side got a huge slice of luck to seal victory 11 minutes from time. Jackson King’s shot hit Cameron Munn to send the ball squirming beyond the former Arsenal goalkeeper Vito Mannone.
Will Sutton scored a dramatic extra-time winner for Oldham as Dave Challinor’s first game in charge of Sheffield Wednesday ended in an upset. The homegrown central defender was up for a free-kick which the Owls failed to clear, with Sutton left completely free to nod home from six yards and secure a 2-1 win.
Calum Kavanagh put Oldham ahead in the 66th minute with a fierce drive after Mike Fondop headed on Noah Chilvers’ right-wing cross. Wednesday equalised 10 minutes later through the former Oldham forward Davis Keillor-Dunn.
The match ignited further in the 84th minute following a touchline fracas involving a large number of players. The Oldham manager, Micky Mellon, was sent off and Sheffield Wednesday’s Callum Slattery was booked. After Sutton’s winning goal, Oldham defended resolutely to close out the game.
Stafford Rangers were denied a historic win after losing 3-2 on penalties to Grimsby after they drew 3-3 after extra time. Two goals from firefighter Darrhyl Mason and one from the Aston Villa youth coach Jack Birch got the eighth-tier side – 89 places below League Two Grimsby – to a shootout.
Mason and Birch had put Rangers 2-0 ahead in front of a crowd of 3,130 at the Stan Robinson Stadium as they chased the second round for the first time since 2007. But set-piece headers inside three minutes from Harvey Rodgers and Maldini Kacurri sent the tie into extra time, where Mason and Géza Turi traded goals.
The home debutant Luca Navarro had to score to send the tie into sudden death but saw his spot-kick saved by Harvey Cartwright to end Rangers’ nine-match Cup marathon.
Lewis Fiorini’s extra-time penalty sent Stockport, who are second in League One, into the second round after they came from two goals down with 10 men to win 3-2 against Cray Wanderers.
Despite being 112 places below their opponents in the pyramid, it was the Isthmian Premier side Cray who took the lead after 21 minutes when Sammie MacLeod found the bottom corner.
Stockport were then reduced to 10 men in the 31st minute as goalkeeper Luca Ashby-Hammond was sent off for a dangerous challenge on John Ufuah. Alex Hernández bent a brilliant strike into the top corner from the resulting free-kick.
Depleted Stockport pulled one back in the 81st minute when Kyle Wootton tscored with a header. And the Hatters then sent the tie into extra time when Mikael Mandron was in the right place to nod home Jack Diamond’s cross. The decisive moment came in the 101st minute when Cray goalkeeper JJ Briggs clattered into Mandron to give away a penalty, which was dispatched by Fiorini.
Charlie Savage scored against his father’s team as Reading eased into the second round with a 5-0 rout of Peterborough at the Weston Homes Stadium on Saturday.
This all-League One tie turned out to be one of the most one-sided of the day, with the Peterborough manager, Robbie Savage, watching on in disbelief as his side were pulled apart.
Reading went ahead after 26 minutes as slick passing led to Andy Rinomhota playing in Daniel Kyerewaa, who found the bottom corner via a deflection. Reading doubled their lead in the 34th minute when a cross from Haydon Roberts was met by a diving header from top scorer Jack Marriott.
It was in effect game over in first-half stoppage time as Savage deepened his father’s misery when he took possession after the ball ran off Marriott, his deflected effort finding the top corner.
Jamie Reid added a fourth for the visitors in the 72nd minute when Paudie O’Connor nodded Savage’s free-kick into his path for him to lift over the Peterborough goalkeeper Alex Bass. Reading struck yet again four minutes later when Liam Fraser’s pass put Reid clean through to score his second.
Non-league Kidderminster breezed into the second round with a convincing 3-0 victory over League One Doncaster.
The National League club opened the scoring after 22 minutes when Maz Kouhyar pulled the ball back to Lewis Walker, and he fired home at the second attempt after his initial shot had hit the upright.
The Harriers striker continued to cause problems, putting an effort over the bar and another just wide, but in the 36th minute he turned provider, charging upfield before teeing up Kouhyar and the on-loan Notts County midfielder slotted home. Kouhyar was again involved in the third goal, having a shot that Josh Clarke could only parry and David Davis turned in the rebound.
The Kidderminster manager, Paul Wotton, said: “We started well, scored the goal and got the crowd up. It was just a really good day. They are a League One team at the end of the day, no matter what the scoreline suggests. They are two leagues higher than us, so they are going to have moments in the game, but we stood up to it.”
League Two Exeter pulled off an upset with a 2-1 win away to League One leaders Huddersfield. Exeter took the lead after 12 minutes, thanks to a perfectly delivered cross from the left from Luca Woodhouse, with centre-back Jack Taylor stealing in at the far post to finish it off.
Huddersfield looked a different team in the second half and found an equaliser within eight minutes of the restart as Ibane Bowat headed home Cameron Humphreys’ corner at the back post.
Charlie Cummins grabbed the winner nine minutes from time at the end of a well-worked move up the right, culminating in Reece Cole’s cutback and a good finish.
Altrincham were denied another famous FA Cup upset as they conceded an 84-minute equaliser against Notts County before bowing out in a penalty shootout.
County took the lead through Jacob Bedeau in the 28th minute but Altrincham responded well with Lucas Weaver grabbing an equaliser six minutes before half-time. Lewis Banks gave the hosts the lead just before the hour but Callum Roberts dashed Altrincham’s hopes of another cup scalp, having beaten 17 Football League sides in the competition, scoring with a first-time strike to force extra-time.
With neither side able to make a breakthrough in extra-time the game went to penalties and Aidan Barlow, Sam Taylor and Eddy Jones all missed from the spot for Altrincham as County triumphed 3-2.
Blackpool survived a scare at Hornchurch, needing to rely on a 118th-minute winner from Josh Bowler to secure a 2-1 comeback victory at the Hornchurch Stadium.
Fleetwood’s hopes of following up their memorable Carabao Cup upset against Premier League champions Arsenal with a long FA Cup run are over after a 2-1 home defeat by fellow League Two side Rochdale. Baba Adeeko’s goal in extra time at Highbury sent the visitors through.
Chesterfield withstood a second-half comeback from Yeovil Town to secure their place in the second round with a 4-3 victory. Yeovil recovered from 3-1 down to level at 3-3 before Joel Randall struck the winner for the Spireites a minute from time.
Late Mansfield goals from Rhys Oates and Jordan Bowery ended the plucky Cup resistance of National League North Macclesfield. Nathan Moriah-Welsh gave Mansfield a first-half lead but the Silkmen were still in the tie under Oates made it 2-0 in the 72nd minute. Bowery added a third three minutes into added time to wrap up victory for the Stags.
League One Plymouth eased through thanks to three goals in a late 11-minute spell in a 4-0 win against Southern League Premier Central battlers Alvechurch. Will Evans finally broke the deadlock after 50 minutes, winning the ball from Jessy Bavanganga before driving a low angled shot into the far corner. Further goals from Evans, Michael Baidoo and Ronan Curtis saw the Pilgrims through.
League One strugglers Barnsley booked their spot in the second round with a 7-2 win over Aldershot at Oakwell, with Cameron McGeehan grabbing a hat-trick.
Leyton Orient held off Harborough 5-1 to progress into the second round while League Two high-flyers Crewe beat Wimbledon 2-1.
Nick Powell and Adam Phillips scored twice as Bradford thrashed National League North side Marine 7-0, while a late goal from Joel Randall helped Cheltenham close out a dramatic 4-3 win over National League Yeovil.
Last season’s quarter-finalists Port Vale booked their place in the second round with a 4-2 victory over National League strugglers Scunthorpe United at Vale Park. MK Dons avoided an upset as they ground out a 2-1 win over League Two Swindon.
Southern League Premier Central team Worcester’s hopes of an upset were ended in a 1-0 defeat at League Two Colchester while Jack Bates scored twice in the first half as Dover progressed with a 2-0 win over Wealdstone.
Ollie Pearce scored after 10 seconds as York sealed a 4-0 win over Northampton. The City captain also scored a second before Alex Hunt and Josh Stones completed the rout.
Jordan Thewlis’s stoppage-time penalty gave seventh-tier Guiseley a 1-0 win over Sutton at Nethermoor Park as Carlisle beat League Two leaders Salford 1-0. Ryan Graydon missed a penalty for the visitors before David Ajiboye’s goal just before the break proved enough to send the Cumbrians through.
Eighth-tier AFC Rushden & Diamonds slipped to a 4-0 defeat at Burton. Will Collar and Borges Rodrigues scored for the Brewers in the first half, with Charlie Webster and Zac Scutt adding two more late on.
Nathan Odokonyero scored twice as National League South Salisbury saw off seventh-tier Sholing 6-0 to take their place in round two for the first time since reforming in 2015.
