Sheffield Wednesday v Newcastle: FA Cup third round – live

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Match reports from today. Plenty going on:

Eddie Howe, the Newcastle manager, also has a chat with the BBC. He says Callum Wilson is being rested as “he’s coming off the back of a long illness” while Saint-Maximin was feeling “under the weather” yesterday and hence has also been left out. Also, he said Isak will not play 90 minutes but that he’s happy the forward has “done the work he needs to do” to be ready to play. There is no risk in playing him, Howe says, over and above the usual ones associated with having a game of footie.

Darren Moore, the Sheffield Wednesday manager, speaks to the BBC: “It’s the beauty of the FA Cup … a special night under the lights against Premier League opposition. It’s a chance for our players to embrace the occasion. We know tonight is going to be a stern test. I said to the boys it’s a game to savour … they’re a good team, we’re a good team, go and play the game and not the occasion.”

Dion Dublin is having a nice time in Sheffield.

Alan Shearer and Dion “Homes Under the Hammer” Dublin are alongside Lineker in studio. It’s as if the Qatar World Cup was nothing but a fever dream. It’s January, the weather is awful, and it’s the FA Cup third round.

“Whose feathers will be ruffled? The Owls, or the Magpies?” inquires the BBC continuity announcer. Gary Lineker is in the presenting hotseat, meanwhile. This must be a big game.

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More match reports!

Will Unwin was at Technique Stadium to carry out a swift rewrite when West Brom levelled in stoppage time against Chesterfield:

“Chesterfield know a thing or two about FA Cup shocks, although it has been 26 years since they made it to the semi-finals as a third-tier club. Armando Dobra thought he had created a new chapter in their history until Brandon Thomas-Asante’s injury-time equaliser.”

Louise Taylor was in Middlesbrough to see Brighton hit five, featuring a double from Argentinian World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister:

“In many ways Brighton are a template of the type of team Michael Carrick eventually hopes to turn Middlesbrough into and, with Alexis Mac Allister scoring twice, they certainly set an example to aspire to. Even before Mac Allister’s second-half introduction Roberto De Zerbi’s side were on top, and ahead, but the arrival of the World Cup winner emphasised the gap between the Championship’s top six and the Premier League’s top 10.”

Team news

The teams, thanks to the magic of Twitter. The Sweden forward Alexander Isak starts for Newcastle following a lengthy spell out with a thigh injury, one of eight changes for the Magpies. He has been out since September. Dan Burn, Kieran Trippier, Miguel Almirón, Joe Willock and Bruno Guimarães drop to the bench following the goalless draw at Arsenal. Fabian Schär, Callum Wilson and Nick Pope all drop out of the squad altogether and Allan Saint-Maximin is also not involved for Eddie Howe’s men.

For the hosts, it’s just two changes: Callum Paterson and Mallik Wilks are out with Fisayo Dele-Bashiru and Dominic Iorfa coming in.

Sheffield Wednesday: Dawson, Palmer, Iorfa, McGuinness, James, Johnson, Dele-Bashiru, Byers, Vaulks, Windass, Smith. Substitutes: Stockdale, Hunt, Famewo, Brown, Bakinson, Adeniran, Mighten, Paterson, Wilks

Newcastle: Dubravka, Manquillo, Lascelles, Botman, Lewis, Longstaff, Anderson, Joelinton, Ritchie, Murphy, Isak. Substitutes: Darlow, Trippier, Dummett, Wood, Fraser, Almirón, Willock, Burn, Bruno Guimarães

A couple of match reports from earlier – Harry Kane edged Tottenham past Portsmouth, and Kelechi Iheanacho did the same thing for Leicester at Gillingham:

In the 3pm kick-offs, Chesterfield have just been denied at the last in a 3-3 thriller against West Brom, who equalised in stoppage time. Blackpool, meanwhile, have lifted the gloom at Bloomfield Road with a 4-1 drubbing of Nottingham Forest.

Sarah Rendell has all the details here in our clockwatch:

Preamble

This evening’s televised tie looks a strong candidate for a good, old-fashioned FA Cup giant-killing to throw on today’s pile. Sheffield Wednesday are buoyant, unbeaten in 13 matches, sitting second in League One with just three defeats this season. A Josh Windass hat-trick helped them to a dominant 5-0 victory against Cambridge five days ago.

Newcastle aren’t going badly either, of course, flying high in third place in the Premier League and coming off the back of a goalless draw at table-topping Arsenal in north London just four days ago. The manager Eddie Howe will doubtless shuffle his pack tonight, but has insisted: “We want to win the game and want to go through.”

Let’s find out who earns a place in the hat for the fourth round, then. Team news and other good stuff will be coming right up.

Kick-off: 6pm