Two FA Cup Third Round Replays have been chosen for live TV coverage by ITV and BT Sport on January 14-15.
Blackburn Rovers’ reward for holding Manchester City to a draw in their Third Round tie at the weekend is a live replay on ITV.
The Championship side fell behind to an Alvaro Negredo goal on the stroke of half time before Scott Dann restored parity on 55 minutes for the Ewood Park underdogs.
Rovers head to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, January 15, with the game kicking off at 8.10pm, exclusively live on ITV and ITV HD.
The winners of this replay will then be at home to either Bristol City or Watford in the Fourth Round.
The evening before that sees an all Premier League affair on BT Sport 1, with Fulham hosting Norwich City at Craven Cottage on Tuesday 14 January, kicking-off at 7.45pm.
Darren Bent had put the Londoners in front after 40 minutes of Saturday’s tie at Carrow Road, but Scottish international Robert Snodgrass headed home an equaliser just before the break for Chris Hughton’s Canaries.
Sheffield United await the winners at Bramall Lane in the Fourth Round.
All other Third Round Replays will be played on the same evening as BT Sport’s televised tie (January 14).
ITV will feature all the action from the Third Round Replays in a special highlights programme following its live game on Wednesday night, after the ITV News, at 10.55pm, presented by Matt Smith.
This season’s Fourth Round ties will be played over the weekend of January 25-26.
ITV and BT Sport’s live match choices have been confirmed for the Fourth Round featuring a number of potential giant killing clashes.
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