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Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of the FA Cup fifth round clash between Championship outfit, Wolves and topflight leaders, Chelsea at Molineux. The Wanderers have already accounted for Stoke City and Liverpool in this season's competition, but this represents their biggest test yet against a team aiming to be only the third to win the league and cup double in England. Kick off 5.30pm GMT.

The Emirates FA Cup / 5th Round
Molineux / 18.02.2017
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Paul Hassall

Updated 18/02/2017 at 19:23 GMT


17.15
Conte on Wolves: “If you ask me if I want to try to win both competitions, yes for sure. We must have this winning mentality. When you are a Chelsea coach or player you must have the ambition to win every competition you play. In the league there are six teams who can fight until the end to win the title. In the FA Cup there are very strong teams (left). Our target is to reach the next round. It won’t be easy. Wolves beat Liverpool away and Stoke away. We must pay great attention because they showed in the recent past they have the capability to beat great teams.”
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17.12
A BIT OF PREVIOUS: The last time Wolves and Chelsea met in the FA Cup was in Round 6 in 1993/94, which saw the Blues win thanks to a Gavin Peacock goal.
17.10
The latest on Diego Costa's proposed new contract from Antonio Conte: “At the end of the season we’ll see the situation. I’m confident [he wants to stay] but now it’s important to keep great concentration for the present, which is the game against Wolves. We must go into the next round.”
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17.07
A familiar foe for the visitors...
17.04
FA CUP ROUND UP: Some interesting results in the 3pm kick offs. Ten-man Millwall have beaten Premier League champions, Leicester City. It seems to just get worse for Claudio Ranieri after last season's fairytale. Elsewhere, Championship Huddersfield will take Man City to a replay at the Etihad after a goalless draw, while Middlesbrough have edged out Oxford by a 3-2 scoreline after the League One side had come back from two down.
17.00
Wolves manager Paul Lambert: "We will need to punch above our weight and stay in the game as long as we can. We will have to do what we are good at and not get drawn into playing Chelsea's way. We will have to find a way of taking them out of their comfort zone, as we did at Liverpool."
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16.55
No doubt about the shock of the day. It took place at Turf Moor as non-league Lincoln defeated Premier League Burnley!
16.50
Five changes for Wolves and plenty (seven) for Chelsea too. Most notably, John Terry returns in a new look defence. Asmir Begovic is between the sticks with Nathan Ake and Nathaniel Chalobah also involved. Cesc Fabregas gets the nod while Diego Costa, Pedro and Eden Hazard remain the main men in attack.
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16.45
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CONFIRMED TEAM - WOLVES: Ikeme, Coady, Doherty, Hause, Batth, Price, Saville, Edwards, Weimann, Costa, Bodvarsson... Subs: Burgoyne, Stearman, Evans, Saiss, Ronan, Enobakhare, Gibbs-White. /// CHELSEA: Begovic; Zouma, Terry, Ake; Moses, Chalobah, Fabregas, Pedro; Willian, Diego Costa, Hazard... Subs: Eduardo, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Kenedy, Kante, Loftus-Cheek, Batshuayi.