BRISTOL CITY staged a tremendous fightback to claim a fourth-round replay at Middlesbrough on 13 February. The League One side came back from two goals down at the break, after Aiyegbeni Yakubu and Malcolm Christie appeared to have put Boro well in command at the break. In a fiveminute second-half spell, City scored through Scott Murray and Richard Keogh to thrill a sell-out 19,000 plus crowd at Ashton Gate.

The last thing Bristol City wanted was to have their vibrant crowd deflated by conceding an early goal, but that is what happened. After just four minutes, from the first chance of the game, England winger Stewart Downing ran 40 yards on the left without a serious challenge. He fired in a shot that Adriano Basso spilled, and Yakubu had an easy chance to finish from a couple of yards into the roof of the net.

But as the half progressed City mounted a spirited recovery, but were cruelly punished for a 22nd minute mistake by Fontaine, who gave the ball away to Yakubu on the right.

James Morrison was then played down the line, and when his low cross came into the box, Christie had a ridiculously easy chance to run the ball past Basso and into the net.

But when Johnson was brought down by Lee Cattermole on 53 minutes City grabbed a priceless goal.

Johnson's free-kick sailed into the box and was met with a backward header by Keogh, which dropped over Schwarzer and into the far corner of the net. And the home crowd erupted on 58 minutes when City earned a replay.