Cardiff City 2-2 Leeds United: Heartbreak for 10-man Bluebirds as Sonny Perkins' stoppage-time strike forces FA Cup replay

Cardiff City suffered late heartbreak in their FA Cup third round tie with Leeds United after Sonny Perkins tapped home in injury time to earn a 2-2 draw and replay at Elland Road.

It was late drama at Cardiff City Stadium. The Bluebirds had taken a comfortable 2-0 lead into the break thanks to first-half goals from Jaden Philogene and Sheyi Ojo, but Leeds were a tour de force after the interval.

Rodrigo scored the first before Joel Bagan was sent off for blatantly saving Junior Firpo's shot on the line with his hand. Jak Alnwick saved the resultant penalty and it appeared City were scraping through to the fourth round.

But heartbreak was to follow when, deep into stoppage time, substitute Perkins poked home in front of the 6,000 travelling Leeds fans to send this tie into a replay up in Yorkshire.

It was hoped this cup tie might prove the catalyst to move City's season out of second gear in the back half of the season.

Leeds started the more assured of the two sides, it's fair to say, with Crysencio Summerville causing all sorts of bother down City's left. But, thanks to Tom Sang and others, Cardiff weathered the early storm.

Darko Gyabi had one rasping shot whistle wide, while Jack Simpson was called into action early, too, having to slide in front of one of his shots, which appeared goalbound.

But the hosts grew into it after a confident start from the Premier League side and began finding their feet, thanks to their lightning-quick forwards troubling Leeds' cumbersome centre-halves in behind.

And it was through that avenue that Cardiff opened the scoring on 24 minutes, almost six hours of football after their last goal. Sang slotted an intelligent ball down the side of the centre-backs and Mark Harris latched on to