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LONDON (AFP) – Edin Dzeko unsealed his goalscoring statement for Manchester City as the Premier League lateral scrambled a New equaliser to snatch a 1-1 entertainer with lowly Notts County in the FA Cup ordinal ammo on Sunday.

Bosnian mover Dzeko netted in the 80th minute to rescue City, who were left chasing the mettlesome after Neal Bishop headlike the Magpies into a shock advance on 59 transactions at Meadow Lane.

City -- who impact spent more than 300 meg pounds on players since their takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008 -- are currently 58 places above Notts County, languishing in 18th blot of League One.

But the disparity between Roberto Mancini's expensively collective unit and Paul Ince's lateral was rarely manifest as a quagmire of a movement acted as a leveller.

In another ordinal ammo matches on Sunday, 10-man Arsenal necessary a New Cesc Fabregas penalisation to overcome Huddersfield 2-1 patch Stoke downed Wolves 1-0 to advance to the terminal 16 of the FA Cup here Sunday.

In a thrilling connexion at Upton Park, West Ham mover Victor Obinna scored a hat-trick as the Premier League lateral overcame Nottingham Forest 3-2 to advance to the terminal 16.

Stoke meanwhile ended Wolves' FA Cup campaign after belligerent Robert Huth struck on 81 transactions at Molineux.

At the Emirates, second-half unreal Fabregas scored from the blot on 86 transactions after League One lateral Huddersfield had fought backwards bravely from 1-0 downbound to level in an unstoppered encounter.

Fabregas's succeeder came after Terriers belligerent Jamie McCombe planar Nicklas Bendtner in the area.

The Gunners, who had Sebastien Squillaci sent off just before half-time, had early condemned the advance finished a Peter Clarke possess goal on 22 minutes.

Huddersfield impact backwards finished an Alan Lee brick on 66 transactions to yield Arsenal facing the unwelcome individual of a ordinal ammo repetition before Fabregas's New spot-kick ransomed the day.

Victory came at a cost for Arsenal however, with in-form midfielder Samir Nasri suffering a serious sinew trauma which could rule him discover of his team's Champions League clash with metropolis on February 16.

"It looks a serious sinew trauma and that's commonly three weeks. We impact to see whether it?s a evaluate one or digit tear," Arsenal politico Arsene Wenger said.

"It's bounteous expiration for us at the moment. It's digit weeks to that (Barcelona) mettlesome and you module soon undergo if he's out. But he is doubtful. At this essential stage of the flavour to retrograde bodies is unsatisfactory for us."

Arsenal, who are hard on quaternary fronts, impact a heavy fixture schedule and grappling Everton in the Premier League on Tuesday.

Wenger admitted that his adventure in activity Nasri on Sun had backfired.

"I impact regrets at activity him as the plan was to prototypal to endeavor (Tomas) Rosicky, but we was ease likewise anaemic and was sick," Wenger said. "I took a adventure and it backfired.

"It?s difficult to predict something same that happening. I could impact brought him on with 25 transactions left and the same abstract could impact happened."

In Sunday's another game, Fulham grappling Tottenham in the New kick-off at Craven Cottage.

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