Newport 2-0 Middlebrough: Draw between the two Ligue 2 teams against the Man City FA Cup

Newport County will host Manchester City to thrill Rodney Parade in the fifth round, after Tony Pulis was the victim of an unfortunate comeback in South Wales.

The second division beat Leeds and held Tottenham last season and beat Leicester in the third round of this campaign.

And now, Michael Flynn's Cup specialists will have the greatest shock of their story after reaching this stage for the second time in their lives – and the first time in 70 years – with his clbadic cup upset at the # 39, a nice evening in Gwent

"Manchester City, we come for you", was the happy song at the end of the match.

It was no coincidence that the team ranked 82nd in the Football League was beaten and beat the fifth team of the Championship in a thrilling replay.

The man of the match, Robbie Willmott and Padraig Amond scored the goals in the second half, but that could have been more – and goalkeeper Joe Day, who missed the first game because his wife Lizzie is waiting to have twins, did not do any work.

Pulis, who was born in Newport and began his playing career here, saw his former club beat his Boro at his own game in terrible conditions.

Forwards Jordan Hugill and Britt Assombalonga also slammed off in the second half before the weekend match with Leeds.

Newport will be entertaining Mansfield and MK Dons next week, but will then host Pep Guardiola and Co in the spotlight on Saturday, Feb. 16, to bring the benefit of their cut to £ 1.2m this season, even before taking into account received from the portal.

It was an old school tie with the sound of the crowd of 7,000 people at Rodney Parade, which drowned the wind and rain.

And the Ligue 2 club made its entry into the league from the start with a direct tactic adapted to difficult conditions.

Umpire Stuart Atwell canceled a strong home penalty call early when the ball hit Adam Clayton's arm – and then Dimi Konstantopoulos kept Boro in the game.

The 40-year-old Greek goalkeeper gratefully seized the lost ball when a Padraig Amond center sowed chaos in the box and then had to flip his head from the back of the goal for the first time. Irish striker before setting foot on the ground.

A rare counter-attack for Boro saw the Lewis wing feed Jordan Hugill and the West Ham loan striker was hit by a left-foot shot.

After half an hour, Pulis returned to four points, but the defensive reorganization did not stop the wind. Willmott created two more chances on the right for Amond, again against Konstantopoulos. and Jamille Matt.

Pulis replaced Paddy McNair by Rajiv Van La Parra on loan at the break, but Newport took the deserved advantage after two minutes of the second period.

Willmott led ahead and when Daniel Ayala retired to the edge of the D, the winger let fly mark his first goal of the season although Konstantopoulos should have done better this time.

But the Greek goalkeeper had no chance after 67 minutes when Amond broke free of Boro's defense and scribbled Robbie Willmott's corner into the top corner of the box to make a ground pbad.