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Villa cup despair

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Tre Pemberton scored a 90th-minute winner as Villa were dumped out of the FA Youth Cup by Blackburn Rovers.

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The striker fired home from close range after Villa keeper Viktor Johansson had kept out Lewis Mansell's shot, to decide the fifth-round tie and complete the visitors' second-half comeback.

Villa had earlier gone in front, midway through the first half, when Callum O'Hare bundled home Corey Taylor's cross.

O'Hare might have put the hosts further ahead early in the second period, only for his shot to rebound off the bar and away.

Rovers then levelled when Lewis Hardcastle blasted home after Villa failed to clear a corner before snatching it late on.

Wolves Under-21s, meanwhile, ended a run of four straight defeats with a 0-0 draw at Brighton, Will Randall going closest with a header which was cleared off the line.