Issa Diop converted the winning spot-kick as Fulham<\/b> survived a mighty scare at Wycombe<\/b> to reach the Carabao Cup quarter-finals by winning 5-4 on penalties after the tie ended 1-1.<\/p>\n
Josh King’s close-range finish early in the second half cancelled out Cauley Woodrow\u2019s early opener for the Chairboys against his former club.<\/p>\n
Wycombe goalkeeper Will Norris saved from Ryan Sessegnon and Jonah Kusi-Asare in the shootout, but Fulham\u2019s Benjamin Lecomte kept out efforts from Ewan Henderson, Fred Onyedinma and Donnell McNeilly, leaving Diop to convert the sudden-death winner.<\/p>\n
Grimsby\u2019s<\/b> giant-killing run was halted in emphatic fashion by Brentford<\/b>, who progressed to the last eight with a 5-0 win at Blundell Park.<\/p>\n
The Mariners, sixth in Sky Bet League Two, knocked Manchester United out in a stunning second-round upset and followed that up in round three with victory at Sheffield Wednesday, but the gulf in class told against Brentford.<\/p>\n
The Premier League side, who made nine changes, led 3-0 at half-time through goals from Mathias Jensen, Keane Lewis-Potter and on-loan Arsenal winger Reiss Nelson.<\/p>\n
Fabio Carvalho converted a 54th-minute penalty for the Bees after he had been fouled and Republic of Ireland captain Nathan Collins headed home their fifth after coming on as a substitute.<\/p>\n
Will Fish\u2019s first Cardiff<\/b> goal clinched the Bluebirds a 2-1 win at Wrexham<\/b> and a place in the last eight in the first meeting between the two sides in 21 years.<\/p>\n
Yousef Salech tapped visitors into a half-time lead and after former Cardiff forward Kieffer Moore had headed Wrexham level in the second period, Fish volleyed home a 71st-minute winner to seal Brian Barry-Murphy\u2019s side the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Issa Diop converted the winning spot-kick as Fulham survived a mighty scare at Wycombe to reach the Carabao…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-150514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}