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SPORTS Sunday, February 19, 2017 23 Football Scores English FA Cup fifth round: Huddersfield 0 Man City 0 Wolves 0 Chelsea 0 Burnley 0 Lincoln 1 Middlesbrough 3 Oxford 2 Millwall 1 Leicester 0

English Championship: Barnsley 0 Brighton 2 Lincoln, Birmingham 1 QPR 4 Burton 2 Norwich 1 Cardiff 5 Rotherham 0 Ipswich 1 Leeds 1 Nottm Forest 1 Sheff Wed 2 Wigan 0 Preston 0

Italian Serie A: Atalanta 1 Crotone 0 Empoli 1 Lazio 2 German Bundesliga: Millwall Borussia Dortmund 3 Wolfsburg 0 Mainz 0 Werder Bremen 2 Hertha Berlin 1 Bayern Munich 1 Hoffenheim 2 Darmstadt 0 Eintracht Frankfurt 0 Ingolstadt 2 claim upsets London Hamburg 2 Freiburg 2 on-league Lincoln City Schalke v Hertha Berlin and third-tier Millwall Nstruck late, late winners Spanish La Liga: as Burnley and Sporting Gijon 1 Atletico Madrid 4 champions Leicester City were dramatically sinking ailing Leicester coming on. Real Madrid 2 Espanyol 0 humbled on a historic day in the FA 1-0 via a 90th-minute goal by Shaun Burnley were Deportivo la Coruna v Alaves (1730) Cup yesterday. Cummings. unable to convert the Sevilla 1 Eibar 0 Sean Raggett scored an 89th-minute “I’m lost for words. It’s mad. I can’t handful of chances header as Lincoln, who reside in the believe it!” Lincoln’s match-winner they created, Lincoln fifth-tier National League, stunned Raggett, 23, told BT Sport. “Crazy. A goalkeeper French Ligue 1: Burnley 1-0 in the fifth round in non-league side in the quarter-finals, saving from Marseille 2 Rennes 0 one of the biggest upsets in the in modern football. It’s unheard of.” and , while Scott Angers 1 Nancy 0 competition’s history. Eighty-one places below Burnley Arfield and Gray shot off- Caen 0 Lille 1 Ten-man Millwall, seventh in in the English football pyramid, target. Lorient 0 Nice 1 League One, claimed a third top-flight Lincoln prevailed when centre-back Burnley’s frustrations Metz 1 Nantes 1 scalp in this season’s competition by Raggett squeezed a header over the manifested themselves in Scores at the time of closing line following a late corner at Turf some antagonistic behaviour Moor. by renowned brawler Lincoln become the first non- Barton during the second league team to reach the FA Cup’s half. last eight since Queens Park He escaped censure Rangers in 1914. for stamping on Matt They are the eighth side Rhead’s foot and from below England’s four fully then pretending to professional divisions to have have been struck beaten top-flight opposition since by the strapping World War II and only the second Lincoln striker Tsonga to have done so since 1989. and was later Burnley drew 1-1 at home to booked for runaway Premier League leaders slapping Terry Chelsea last weekend and have Hawkridge. on beaten Liverpool and champions With Leicester City on home turf this a replay France’s Jo-Wilfried season. beckoning, Tsonga Lincoln join Hereford United, Sam song who toppled Newcastle United Habergham’s Rotterdam his fourth semi-final at the Dutch in 1972, and Sutton United, corner from o-Wilfried Tsonga rained down ten event. Berdych came to the court with conquerors of Coventry City in the right was aces, finishing off Tomas Berdych an 8-3 lead in the series, including 1989, among the ranks of the FA headed back J6-3, 6-4 in 72 minutes on Saturday wins in their last two meetings, one a Cup’s non-league giant-killers. across goal by to power into a second Rotterdam Doha quarter-final last month. Lincoln captain World Tennis final and record his Tsonga finished with two breaks Man City held Luke Waterfall 400th career win. of the 13th-ranked Czech while never There was an early setback for and Raggett met The French sixth seed will compete facing a break point in what quickly Burnley when Johann Berg it with a header that for his first title at the Ahoy stadium became one-way traffic. Gudmundsson was forced off in Burnley goalkeeper after finishing runner-up six years “My only goal is to win the next the 20th minute after a foul by could not ago. He faces the winner from Belgian match, this would be important for Alan Power, with keep out. (AFP) Lincoln City’s English third seed David Goffin and surprise me,” 2011 runner-up Tsonga said. defender Sean Raggett semi-finalist Pierre-Hugues Herbert, “I’m not too worried about my (top) heads the ball past a French qualifier and member of the (14th) ranking unless I were able Burnley’s English striker top ATP doubles side. Tsonga was to get to eighth, that is the position Andre Gray unstoppable against Berdych, the 2014 where you are protected in the draw champion and 2015 finalist playing from other seeds.