FA Cup round-up A-L

Bolton, Villa, Everton and Fulham progress to the fourth round

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FA Cup round-up A-L

Wigley and Evans: Avoided an upset

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Aston Villa 3 Blackburn 1
Blackpool 1 Ipswich 2
Bolton 4 Lincoln City 0
Everton 3 Carlisle 1
Fulham 1 Swindon 0
Huddersfield 0 West Brom 2
Leicester 2 Swansea 1

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The magic of the FA Cup was difficult to find in the third round as Bolton began life without Gary Megson with a victory over Lincoln, while Aston Villa progressed at the expense of Blackburn.

Everton overcame Carlisle, and Roy Hodgson's Fulham progressed to the fourth round as they knocked out Swindon.

West Brom were made to work for a victory at Huddersfield, Ipswich won a bad-tempered encounter against nine-man Blackpool, and Leicester left it late to beat Swansea.

The scene appeared well set for an upset at the expense of managerless Bolton at the Reebok Stadium, but the Trotters proved too strong for Lincoln in a 4-0 win.

Bolton sacked former boss Gary Megson earlier in the week after throwing away the lead in a home draw with Hull City and were under the caretaker management of Steve Wigley and Chris Evans.

But there was no sign of any cup magic as League Two Lincoln were eliminated by an own goal from Moses Swaibu and additional goals from Lee Chung-Yong, Gary Cahill and Mark Davies.

Villa recorded a 3-1 win over top-flight foes Blackburn, who had El-Hadji Diouf sent off in the first half for a lunging challenge on Habib Beye.

Both respective managers, Martin O'Neill and Sam Allardyce, had an eye on their Carling Cup semi-final next week and named changed sides.

And it was home team Villa who earned the psychological advantage ahead of that fixture with goals from Nathan Delfouneso and Carlos Cuellar coming before Nikola Kalinic netted after Diouf's straight red card.

Villa made sure of their place in the hat as substitute John Carew converted a late penalty.

Top-flight Everton have not had the best of campaigns and last season's finalists made tough work of seeing off League One side Carlisle at Goodison Park before eventually recording a 3-1 win.

Fulham returned to winning ways following their cruel Premier League defeat at West London rivals Chelsea in their last outing as Bobby Zamora's excellent run of goalscoring continued in a 1-0 victory over Swindon at Craven Cottage.

Championship title-hopefuls West Brom were made to work all the way against Huddersfield at the Galpharm Stadium, but in-form Graham Dorrans and Chris Wood scored the goals in five second-half minutes to earn a 2-0 success.

Second-tier promotion rivals Leicester and Swansea looked like they were set for a replay but Dany N'Guessan scored in the 89th minute at the Walkers Stadium to earn the home side a 2-1 win.

Roy Keane's Ipswich defeated Blackpool 2-1 at Bloomfield Road as the home side finished the game with nine men following red cards for Ian Evatt and substitute Rob Edwards after half-time.

The lunchtime kick-off between rivals Bristol City and Cardiff was postponed due to a frozen pitch, while Accrington versus Gillingham, and Brentford against Doncaster also fell victim of the weather.