Three Goals in Eight Minutes Propel Arsenal in F.A. Cup Arsenal kept its bid to end a seven-year trophy drought on track Sunday, scoring three times in eight second-half minutes to beat Aston Villa, 3-2, and reach the fifth round of the F.A. Cup. Villa led, 2-0, at halftime on goals by Richard Dunne and Darren Bent, prompting near silence from the Arsenal fans, who have not seen their club lift a trophy since the 2005 F.A. Cup. The Gunners got back in the game when Robin van Persie converted a 54th-minute penalty kick, tied it on Theo Walcott's lucky rebound and took the lead in the 61st on a second penalty by Van Persie. Middlesbrough and Sunderland will meet again on Feb. 7 for the right to face Arsenal after they tied their fourth-round match, 1-1. "We tried to keep focused and calm," Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger said. It is an opportunity, but you could see today how hard the games are. Thierry Henry missed a late chance after coming on in the 89th minute for the third appearance of his loan from the Red Bulls of Major League Soccer, but the home fans could still cheer the result. Robbie Keane, on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy, provided the cross that led to Dunne's 33rd-minute opener. Crawley Town, the lowest-ranked team left in this season's competition, was handed a meeting with the Premier League club Stoke in Sunday's fifth-round draw. Liverpool will meet Brighton, Chelsea will host Birmingham, Norwich will host Leicester, Everton will play Blackpool or Sheffield Wednesday, and Bolton will go to the winner of the replay between Millwall and Southampton. Tottenham is at Stevenage. A.C. MILAN KEEPS PACE Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored one goal and set up another as A.C. Milan comfortably beat Cagliari, 3-0, to move back within a point of Juventus, as the Italian league title race develops into a two-team affair. Ibrahimovic scored his league-leading 15th goal on a free kick in the 32nd minute, then used his chest to control the ball and set up a score by midfielder Antonio Nocerino in the 39th. Milan's captain, Massimo Ambrosini, sealed the victory with his first goal of the season in the 75th. Earlier, Milan's city rival, Inter, had its seven-match winning streak in Serie A broken with a 1-0 loss at Lecce. Juventus, which edged Udinese on Saturday, leads with 44 points; Milan has 43. AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS Zambia clinched first place in its opening-round group with a 1-0 win over the co-host Equatorial Guinea in the African Cup of Nations, but both teams advanced to the quarterfinals. Christopher Katongo scored in the 67th minute against already-qualified Equatorial Guinea, which is probably headed for a meeting with the cup favorite Ivory Coast in the Round of 8. Libya's faint hopes of progressing ended despite its 2-1 victory over Senegal, a pretournament favorite that instead headed home after three straight losses.