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Akpobire’s penalty brace helps

By David Lewis
L’boro U 3 Akpobire 33 (pen), 58 (pen), Silva 45+1
Ilkeston T 1 Marshall 65
KEL Akpobire scored a penalty in either half as Loughborough University breezed past Ilkeston Town to progress in the FA Cup.
Ronan Silva was also on the scoresheet for the Scholars who had to weather an early storm from the visitors. Alex Marshall pulled one back for Ilkeston, but himit wasn’t to be as the home side set up a tie with Maltby Main in the next round.
Ilkeston saw a lot of the ball in the opening half an hour of the game but fell behind minutes later after Akpobire was adjudg...

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