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Una ronda llena de goles en la FA Cup

A round full of goals in the FA Cup

The third round of the FA Cup had some notable goals: Leicester beat QPR 6-2, Liverpool 4-0 at Accrington, Chelsea 5-0 at Morecambe, and Manchester City swept aside Salford 8-0 to advance comfortably.

Saturday’s FA Cup third round matchday on January 11 saw Premier League teams thrash their English lower league counterparts.

Leicester beat QPR

Starting with Leicester City, the “Foxes” beat Queens Park Rangers, a team from England’s second division, 6-2, with James Justin scoring a brace and Stephy Mivididi, Facundo Buonanotte, Jamie Vardy and Wout Faes scoring one goal each.

Vardy marcó el carto de su equipo/Imagen: X (@LCFC)
Vardy scored his team’s goal/Image: X (@LCFC)

Liverpool and Chelsea had no problems

On the other hand, Liverpool defeated Accrington from England’s fourth division 4-0, with goals from Diogo Jota, a great goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold, a goal from Jayden Danns and Federico Chiesa’s first goal as a “Red”.

Chiesa anotó su primer gol con el Liverpool/Imagen: X (@LFC)
Chiesa scores his first goal for Liverpool/Image: X (@LFC)

Also, the Stamford Bridge team crushed their English fourth division counterparts, Morecambe, by a score of 5-0, where Tosin Adarabioyo and Joe Felix shone in the game, both for scoring a brace, the remaining goal was scored by Christopher Nkunku.

Joao marcó doblete/Imagen: X (@ChelseaFC)
Joao scored a double/Image: X (@ChelseaFC)

Manchester City scored eight goals

Moving on to the most scandalous goal, Manchester City unleashed their fury on Salford, a team also from England’s fourth division, as the match ended with a scandalous 8-0 victory for the “Citizens”.

The goals were scored by Jérémy Doku with a brace, Divin Mubama, Nico O’Reilly, Jack Grealish and a hat-trick by James McAtee.

Thus, the Premiership teams fulfilled their task and advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.