Title pioneers Leicester daze Bournemouth to arrive at FA Cup quarter-finals.

Substitute Abdul Fatawu scored an extra-time champ for the Foxes.

Substitute Abdul Fatawu scored a shocking extra-time victory as Bournemouth lost 1-0 at home to Sky Bet Title pioneers Leicester. Fatawu gathered Kelechi Iheanacho’s pass on the edge of the punishment region before bowing a strong left-foot shot into the top corner to send the Foxes into the quarter-finals. Leicester rolled out nine improvements from the side beaten at home by advancement rivals Leeds last week yet at the same time showed their Head Association certifications.

Dennis Praet had the game’s previous shot on track when he put an above kick gently into the arms of goalkeeper Imprint Travers from Marc Albrighton’s hurled cross. Arjan Raikhy likewise terminated wide from the edge of the case in the initial minutes.

Bournemouth rested top-scorer Dominic Solanke and gave a full introduction to the January move window marking Enes Unal. Turkey global Unal got the attention with an enterprising first-half showcase, even though his 10th-moment 30-yard free-kick was a touch aggressive as it took off and wide.

In the fifteenth moment, Leicester’s substitute goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk needed to come rapidly off his line to beat Unal to Philip Charging’s through ball. What’s more, after three minutes Hamza Choudhury was available to clear Unal’s short proximity shot off the line.

Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott ought to have improved in the wake of being chosen by Luis Sinisterra’s low get yet he blasted over from halfway inside the punishment region. Leicester kept on representing a danger on the counter-assault and Yunus Akgun ought to have essentially stirred things up around town when he headed wide from another Albrighton focus.

The Foxes had one more enormous let-off 11 minutes before half-time as left-back Milos Kerkez bored a cross-shot towards the six-yard box yet Unal could wound wide. Albrighton, one of a handful of the survivors from Leicester’s 2021 FA Cup-winning side, was inches away from terminating the Foxes ahead in the 41st moment when his low strike from the edge of the area rammed against a post.

Bournemouth goalkeeper Travers then, at that point, made an acrobatic save to turn Wanya Marcal’s subsequent exertion over the crossbar. In the last minutes of the half, Stolarczyk made a decent response save to keep out Sinisterra’s header from a corner before Scott put the bounce back wide at the far post.

It was Bournemouth’s chance to be denied by the woodwork five minutes into the final part as Marcos Senesi’s long-range curling iron beat Stolarczyk before hitting a post. Stolarczyk was called right into it again in the 74th moment to beat away Kerkez’s all-around struck close post exertion.

Akgun ought to have won it a little ways from the finish of a typical time when he got himself one-on-one with Travers however blasted over. Similarly, as the game seemed to set out toward a punishment shootout, Ghanaian Fatawu won it in the last moment of the principal half of additional time.