Chelsea additionally wished more time and overdue drama to look off lower league competition 2-1 to attain the last sixteen after Plymouth overlooked a overdue penalty at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea have been with out supervisor Thomas Tuchel, who has examined positive for coronavirus. And a star-studded Blues line-up made existence hard for themselves earlier than jetting off to the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi. Macaulay Gillesphey nodded the League One side into the lead after simply 8 minutes. The Plymouth aim led a charmed lifestyles as Mateo Kovacic and Callum Hudson-Odoi hit the bar earlier than Cesar Azpilicueta's resourceful finish levelled simply earlier than half-time.
An expected Chelsea onslaught in the 2d 1/2 failed to materialise and that they needed to wait till stoppage time on the give up of the primary half of of greater time to go in the front whilst Marcos Alonso slotted domestic Kai Havertz's move. However, the drama did no longer cease there as Plymouth have been provided a penalty with seconds to move in extra time.
Kepa Arrizabalaga has been delivered on in the past by Tuchel for shootouts as a penalty expert and the Spaniard ensured there has been now not a shootout when he stored Ryan Hardie's spot-kick.
In the alternative game, Sixth-tier Kidderminster take a seat 113 places beneath David Moyes' men, who're pushing for an area in next season's Champions League, but it ended up being a excellent contest. But the fragility in the Hammers' squad without Rice and Michail Antonio turned into exposed as Harriers had been right value for the lead given to them with the aid of Alex Penny's early goal for a good deal of the ninety minutes. The defender smashed into an unguarded net after the Hammers failed to deal with Omari Sterling's free-kick.
Moyes despatched on Rice at half of-time among five modifications all through the second half, but the home aspect looked set to preserve on until the England midfielder took topics into his very own palms. Rice charged ahead from midfield in the first minute of stoppage time, reduce inside and blasted the ball high into the roof of the net. Even then the traffic laboured for half-hour of greater time until hanging in stoppage time another time to avoid the chance of a penalty shootout.
Jarrod Bowen turned into left with the easy project of tapping home from near range after Kidderminster 'keeper Luke Simpson had denied Aaron Cresswell from point-blank range.
