Holders Leicester beaten but fan incident mars Forest win

FA Cup holders Leicester were dumped out of the competition in the fourth round after being thrashed 4-1 by an inspired Nottingham Forest at the City Ground.

The Championship side were unfazed by the arrival of their Premier League opponents and took the lead after 23 minutes when Philip Zinckernagel turned home from inside the six-yard box after Kienan Davis nodded down Brennan Johnson's floated cross from the right.

Forest fans barely had time to celebrate their side's goal before they were on their feet again just 87 seconds later, with Johnson cleverly slotting through the legs of Danny Ward after Daniel Amartey's dreadful backpass played him in.

During the celebrations, a supporter ran onto the field and appeared to throw punches towards Forest players.

Steve Cooper's side were celebrating again just after the half-hour mark when some dreadful set-piece defending allowed returning captain Joe Worrall to steer a header past Ward and hand Forest a stunning 3-0 lead.

Leicester were handed a lifeline when Kelechi Iheanacho (40) beat Forest goalkeeper Brice Samba - who had rashly raced out of his area - to a James Maddison through ball and rolled the ball into the empty net.

Brendan Rodgers made a change at half time, replacing Harvey Barnes with Patson Daka, but it failed to help Leicester maintain any momentum that the goal may have generated.

It was Forest who began the second period on top, with Zinckernagel - whose performance may have new Watford manager Roy Hodgson wishing the midfielder was available to help his parent club's battle against relegation - driving at the Leicester defence before teeing up Johnson for a shot that was deflected wide.

Maddison went close for the Foxes when he bent a shot wide of