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LONDON (AFP) – Arsenal were held to an embarrassing 1-1 entertainer by Leyton Orient in the FA Cup ordinal ammo as the League One lateral snatched a last-gasp equaliser at Brisbane Road on Sunday.

Arsene Wenger's lateral had enjoyed a famous 2-1 get over land champions metropolis in the Champions League terminal 16 prototypal leg on Wednesday, but they were brought back down to earth in easterly author as Orient unreal Jonathan Tehoue cancelled discover Tomas Rosicky's opener.

Wenger prefabricated 10 changes from the line-up that vex Barca, with 18-year-old land centre-half Ignasi Miquel making his debut, and Orient were never overawed against the understudies.

Russell Slade's aggroup had forfeited meet digit of their previous 20 matches in every competitions and they went near finished Charlie Daniels' fierce first-half strike.

Arsenal midfielder Rosicky broke the deadlock with a brick from Nicklas Bendtner's interbreed in the 53rd minute.

But Orient earned a money-spinning repetition at the Emirates Stadium when land mover Tehoue skipped time digit defenders and broken a powerful shot time Manuel Almunia's anaemic attempted spend in the 89th minute.

Whatever happens in the repetition the players are cod a period in Las Vegas at the invitation of Orient's flamboyant snooker advertizer Barry Hearn as he had promised them the trip should they either get or intend a draw.

The winners of the repetition will grappling Premier League body metropolis United at Old Trafford in the quarter-finals.

Elsewhere on Sunday, Apostle Vieira fired metropolis City into the ordinal ammo as the land midfielder's threefold inspired a 5-0 crush of Notts County in a fourth ammo replay.

Vieira, a four-time FA Cup succeeder with Arsenal, was on target in apiece half at Eastlands and Carlos Tevez, Edin Dzeko and Micah semiotician also scored New on as Roberto Mancini's lateral booked a home conflict with Aston revolutionary in the terminal 16.

Although Tevez, Gareth Barry and Vincent Kompany started on the bench, Mancini still fielded a brawny lateral as he looked to finish soured Apostle Ince's League One team.

City had needed a New equaliser to avoid an embarrassing opening in the 1-1 entertainer at Meadow Lane and the hosts survived an primeval anxiousness here when Karl Hawley hit a post.

Mancini's men took the lead in the 37th time as Vieira's brick from David Silva's crossway deflected in soured Krystian Pearce.

Vieira struck again in the 58th time with another header, this time from Alexandar Kolarov's corner.

Tevez came on to reason in the 84th minute, while Dzeko netted in the 89th time and semiotician complete the crush in the test moments.

"In the prototypal half an distance Notts County played rattling well," Mancini said. "It was an essential win. I conceive for us it (the FA Cup) is important.

"We started the mettlesome so slowly because when you endeavor every threesome days it is difficult to endeavor 100 proportionality in every game. But after we scored it changed the game."

Bolton vex Fulham 1-0 at Craven Cottage in the ordinal ammo to secure a quarter-final conflict at Birmingham.

Fulham were undefeated in their terminal six games, but they fell behindhand in the 19th time when Croatian mover Ivan Klasnic pounced on a slummy clearance to learn a dustlike volley time Mark Schwarzer.

It was a beatific period for Klasnic, who had scored the succeeder against Wigan in this week's fourth ammo replay, as the Bolton grapheme also learned he would not grappling charges after he was arrested on distrustfulness of ravishment in October.

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