Plymouth edged through in the FA Cup after a five-goal third-round thriller against Hull at Home Park on Saturday.Argyle top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake turned home his 13th goal of the season on 58 minutes to send last season's quarter-finalists into Monday's fourth round draw.

The Pilgrims had gone 2-0 up in the opening 26 minutes after Peter Halmosi fired home a free-kick wide on the right flank.

Jimmy Abdou pounced on the first to stab the ball home from six yards after a poor defensive clearance on 23 minutes and then Halmosi's next effort, three minutes later, sailed in from 30 yards.

Home keeper Luke McCormick made a crucial double save to deny Stuart Elliott and then Nick Barmby, as he followed up, in first-half stoppage time.

City boss Phil Brown introduced top scorer Dean Windass at half-time, along with Richard Garcia, and the veteran striker scored twice.

The 38-year-old looped Barmby's flick-on over McCormick in the 51st minute after a clearance from Boaz Myhill and, on the hour, Windass then sent a sweet free-kick into the top corner from 25 yards to take his season's tally to 10 goals.

Sandwiched in between was Ebanks-Blake's winner, created by man of the match Halmosi.

Plymouth boss Paul Sturrock said: "That's the verve, experience and enthusiasm that he [Windass] brings to the game.

"He was bossing people and we did not react properly in the first 10 minutes of the second half.

"The first half I was relatively pleased with until the last five minutes of that half.

"The start of the second half we did not really attack the ball and we let them get behind us and we paid dear for that.

"The boys worked very hard, rolled the sleeves up and battled.

"Peter has done very well, because that's two free-kicks we have scored off and he has rolled in (the ball) for Sylvan to score the winner. Sylvan has taken it very well.

"He was up for it, we had to get that third goal."

Hull boss Phil Brown said: "That's about our 30th game of the season and I think we have only conceded four goals from set-pieces - and two of them were in the first half. It was very uncharacteristic.

"They scared the living daylights out of us from their set-pieces in the first half and the size we had in the team, we have got a big enough team to deal with it and it disappoints me we didn't.

"It was important to get something from the game. (At half-time) I made the changes with the intention of getting something from the game and we so nearly did. Windass was brilliant."

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