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Tottenham Thrashes Aston Villa 4-1 in Premier League

Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
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Tottenham Thrashes Aston Villa 4-1 in Premier League

Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs

Dominic Solanke scored twice as Tottenham thrashed Aston Villa 4-1 in the Premier League on Sunday.
The forward struck two goals in the space of four second-half minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after Villa had led at the break, The Associated Press reported.
Solanke scored in the 75th and 79th as Spurs produced a stunning second-half performance to follow up its victory against Manchester City in the League Cup on Wednesday.
Morgan Rogers had given Champions League-chasing Villa the lead in the 32nd minute, but Brennan Johnson leveled the game four minutes after the break.
Solanke's double put Spurs 3-1 ahead and James Maddison curled a free kick into the top corner in the sixth minute of added time. Solanke is now on five goals for the season.
Tottenham is up to seventh in the standings, while fifth-place Villa missed out on the chance to move into the top three.
Grudge match AFC Wimbledon beat MK Dons 2-0 in the first round of the FA Cup and took bragging rights in one of English soccer’s fiercest grudge matches.
Matty Stevens and Omar Bugiel scored either side of halftime at Stadium MK in a competition that holds deep ties for fans of both clubs.
Wimbledon was a shock winner of the Cup in 1988 when beating the mighty Liverpool 1-0. The team relocated to Milton Keynes in 2002 and was renamed MK Dons, which prompted disgruntled fans to create a phoenix club called AFC Wimbledon.
And it was the traveling AFC Wimbledon fans who were left celebrating Sunday after securing its place in the next round of the Cup.

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Man City Favorites, but FA Cup Door Wide Open for Seven Others

A combination of file pictures created in London on March 28, 2025, shows Bournemouth's Spanish manager Andoni Iraola (L) looking on before the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Bournemouth at Craven Cottage in London on December 29, 2024 and Manchester City’s coach Pep Guardiola (R) attending a press conference at Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, on November 4, 2024. (AFP)
A combination of file pictures created in London on March 28, 2025, shows Bournemouth's Spanish manager Andoni Iraola (L) looking on before the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Bournemouth at Craven Cottage in London on December 29, 2024 and Manchester City’s coach Pep Guardiola (R) attending a press conference at Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, on November 4, 2024. (AFP)
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Man City Favorites, but FA Cup Door Wide Open for Seven Others

A combination of file pictures created in London on March 28, 2025, shows Bournemouth's Spanish manager Andoni Iraola (L) looking on before the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Bournemouth at Craven Cottage in London on December 29, 2024 and Manchester City’s coach Pep Guardiola (R) attending a press conference at Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, on November 4, 2024. (AFP)
A combination of file pictures created in London on March 28, 2025, shows Bournemouth's Spanish manager Andoni Iraola (L) looking on before the English Premier League football match between Fulham and Bournemouth at Craven Cottage in London on December 29, 2024 and Manchester City’s coach Pep Guardiola (R) attending a press conference at Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, on November 4, 2024. (AFP)

Manchester City are favorites to win this season's FA Cup and salvage something from a troubled season but the seven other clubs left in a wide-open draw may never have a better opportunity to win the trophy.

None of the five most successful clubs in FA Cup history -- Arsenal, holders Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur or Liverpool -- are in the quarter-finals.

City, who travel to Bournemouth on Sunday, won the Cup for a seventh time two years ago but of the other teams in this weekend's quarter-finals, the most recent winner is Nottingham Forest who went all the way in 1959.

The combined FA Cup triumphs of the eight clubs left is 18 -- the lowest since 1997 -- and seven of those were for Aston Villa who have not won it since 1957.

Second-tier Preston North End, who host Villa on Sunday, are statistically the third most successful FA Cup team left but 1938 was the last time they lifted the trophy.

Action begins on Saturday with a London derby between Fulham and Crystal Palace, two clubs who have never won the FA Cup or any major silverware for that matter.

Fulham reached the final in 1975 while Palace have made two finals, losing to Manchester United in 1990 and again in 2016.

A cracking atmosphere is expected at Craven Cottage as the evenly-matched Premier League rivals seek a semi-final spot.

Saturday's later game sees Brighton & Hove Albion, whose one FA Cup final appearance was in 1983, host Forest.

Like Forest, Brighton are also chasing European qualification through the Premier League and they will be keen to avenge a 7-0 league hammering against Nuno Espirito Santo's team at the beginning of February.

Brighton are unbeaten since then and Fabian Hurzeler's in-form side are tipped to make him the youngest manager to win the FA Cup since Stan Cullis, also 32, led Wolverhampton Wanderers to the trophy in 1949.

"In this phase of the season, we need to have the belief. And I have the biggest belief in this group -- the belief that they can win and that they can achieve a season everyone remembers," the German said on Friday.

Preston are bidding to become the first club outside the top flight to reach the FA Cup final since Cardiff City in 2008.

Sitting 14th in the Championship table, they will hope a passionate crowd at Deepdale will help them stun a Villa team who have reached the quarter-finals for the first time since 2015 when they went on to reach the final and lose to Arsenal.

"We are in the quarter-finals and that's a bit of magic for the Cup," Preston midfielder Stefan Thordarson. "It's harder and harder but we have shown that teams like us can do it.

"It's up for grabs for anyone this year."

The quarter-finals conclude on Sunday with Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth hoping to shut off Manchester City's last remaining route to silverware this season at the Vitality Stadium.

Bournemouth, four points behind City in the Premier League in 10th spot, are in the quarter-finals for only the third time.

"I think we have a big opportunity this weekend, anyone who steps on the pitch has to be ready to give everything, and even that might not be enough to beat City," Iraola said.

"But the chance to play at Wembley -- for City it is less important as they play there a lot, but for us it is huge."

City are seeking a seventh successive semi-final.