Nottingham Forest beat 10-man Exeter on penalties as Devon double denied At 11.04pm, at last there was a result, Nottingham Forest avoiding an FA Cup upset against 10-man Exeter City after prevailing from the final fourth-round tie via a 4-2 penalty shootout victory.
Miguel pushed away Magennis’s initial header from Ed Francis’s spinning corner towards the back post, but with the Forest goalkeeper grounded the Exeter captain, alert in the box, thrashed another shot goalwards and Willy Boly inadvertently sliced his clearance in off a post.
Jota Silva smacked the crossbar in the dying seconds of stoppage time after pickpocketing Caleb Watts inside the Exeter box and Forest kept Whitworth busy throughout extra time.
Yates squandered a chance to open up a two-goal buffer for Forest in first-half stoppage time and a few minutes into the second period Forest were back at square one.
But for the 10 intervening minutes between Josh Magennis’s opener after Miguel’s blunder and Ramón Sosa’s equaliser, Exeter, whose manager, Gary Caldwell, won the Cup with Wigan in 2013, began to believe they could join Plymouth and a handful of elite clubs in the last 16.
