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| Two goals for Archie Love |
Despite the loss of four players due to international calls, and facing an Exeter team that started with ten players with first team experience, it was Burnley who won through 3-2 after extra time in a game where were never behind.
Love got his first on 23 minutes and it was a lead we were hold until six minutes from the end of normal time when Jimmy Keohane kicked off a rush of four goals in twelve minutes.
Just as we thought it was going to go into extra time we were back in front three minutes later when Archie got his second, but in the first of five minutes added on it was 2-2 through Tom Nichols.
So extra time it was but Lowe, on as a substitute for Jamie Frost, netted in the very first minute of the added half hour and that was enough to give us the victory.
We haven't half cut it fine in this competition. We beat Wigan on penalties after a 0-0 draw and followed that up with wins against Crewe and Sunderland with us coming from a goal behind to win 2-1 with last minute goals in both.
The last round saw us win comfortably against Bolton but it was another late, late show that took us into the fourth round and a trip to the Etihad to face Manchester City.
The teams were;
Exeter: Christy Pym, Aaron Dawson, Jordan Tillson, Scot Bennett, Jordan Moore-Taylor, David Wheeler, Matt Grimes, Jimmy Keohane, Jake Gosling, Jamie Reid, Tom Nichols. Subs not used: James Hamon, Elliott Chamberlain, Jacob Jagger Cane, Matt Jay, Jacob Wannell.
Burnley: Danijel Nizic, Jack Errington, Alex Coleman, Tom Anderson, Kyle Brownhill (Waqas Azam 85), Micah Evans, Steven Hewitt, Archie Love, Luke Gallagher (Brad Jackson 85), Jamie Frost (Nathan Lowe 74). Subs not used: Callum Jakovlevs, Ntumba Massanka.
Referee: Derek Eaton (Gloucestershire).
Attendance: 1,207.