The ten men of Millwall caused a mammoth Emirates FA Cup fifth round upset as Shaun Cummings’ late goal knocked out Premier League champions Leicester City.
Millwall were forced play the last 38 minutes of the tie at a one-man disadvantage after Jake Cooper was sent off, but Cummings popped up as the clock ticked past 90 minutes to send the League One side into the sixth round for just the third time in 33 seasons.
Cooper was booked just before the break for charging Leicester keeper Ron-Robert Zieler and received a second yellow for a mistimed lunge on Ahmed Musa as the Foxes were starting a counter-attack.
But the Lions coped with their numerical deficit superbly and, right at the death, Cummings cut in from the right and finished low past Zieler to send The Den into raptures.
The Lions weren’t the only lower-league side to get a result against Premier League opposition as Championship high-flyers Huddersfield Town held Manchester City to a 0-0 draw.
City lie second in the top-flight table but were unable to break down a resolute Terriers defence, with goalkeeper Joel Coleman denying Sergio Aguero on a couple of occasions.
Huddersfield even had a goal disallowed for offside when Philip Billing slammed home in the first half but the teams will do it again in a replay.
And League One Oxford United narrowly missed out on making it a trio of lower-league success stories as their fightback wasn’t enough to stop Middlesbrough prevailing 3-2 at the Riverside Stadium.
With Boro the Premier League’s lowest scorers, an upset seemed a distinct possibility but that chance appeared to evaporate as they established a 2-0 lead by the break.
Grant Leadbitter had already hit the bar through a chip when he hammered home a 26th-minute penalty after Stewart Downing was brought down by a rash lunge from Chris Maguire and that advantage was doubled eight minutes later by a spectacular Rudy Gestede bicycle kick.
Boro won 4-1 when the sides last met in May 1998 but Oxford ensured there would be no repeat by levelling the match with two goals in 58 second-half seconds.
Firstly, Maguire’s free-kick took a nick off the wall and flew into the net before the forward fired in a shot that goalkeeper Brad Guzan could only palm out to West Ham loanee Antonio Martinez, who duly converted to make it 2-2.
But Cristhian Stuani broke Oxford hearts on 86 minutes when he poked home Alvaro Negredo’s flick-on from close-range, denying the visitors a sixth round spot for just the second time in their history.
Meanwhile, Premier League leaders Chelsea fought their way into the last eight with a 2-0 victory over Championship side Wolves in the day's late kick-off.
Wolves had already taken care of two top-flight clubs, in the shape of Stoke City and Liverpool, to reach this stage and were in contention to produce a third shock with the sides locked at 0-0 at the break.
But the in-form Pedro produced the breakthrough on 64 minutes as a slick move ended with the Spaniard nodding home Willian’s chipped cross.
And Diego Costa wrapped it up two minutes from the end when he slotted a low finish past Carl Ikeme.
