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The replay win, which followed a 0-0 draw at Fratton Park, also lifted some of the pressure off manager Tony Adams following a string of disappointing results and the sales of Jermain Defoe and Lassa Diarra.

Pompey will now entertain Swansea in the next round but know that Crouch's 38th-minute strike was also a controversial one as the England man could have been penalised for handball in his own box seconds before.

Krancjar wrapped up victory with a tap-in with two minutes remaining after City were caught on the counter-attack again, and the home side were denied even a consolation goal when David James kept out Nicky Maynard's stoppage-time penalty.

David Nugent wastefully hit a post from six yards after Crouch had set him up and it was not long before Traore saw a drive deflected behind for a corner.

The Robins forces a corner and the ball appeared to strike Crouch on a shoulder and then the other arm in the Portsmouth area as he tried to clear, although there was little in the way of a frenzied appeal by the home players.

Referee Michael Jones allowed play to continue and Nadir Belhadj's superb cross-field ball from the left put Traore away down the other flank. The Frenchman got the better of City left-back Liam Fontaine, and set up Crouch, who had run the length of the pitch, in front of goal for a smart finish.

Krancjar made it 2-0 with a simple finish after Belhadj had again used his pace on the counter-attack but City's response was to win a penalty at the other end.

Sol Campbell was adjudged to have impeded Maynard but when the striker picked himself up to take the spot-kick James guessed correctly to beat it away.