Coventry striker Ellis Simms scored a first-half hat-trick to crush Maidstone’s dream of a historic FA Cup quarter-final place.
The sixth-tier Stones were bidding to become only the second non-league team in 109 years to reach the last eight, having already dispatched English Football League sides Barrow, Stevenage and Ipswich.
They came up against a Sky Blues side still stinging from their home defeat by Preston in the Championship on Friday, and were out of the running by the 35th minute, with the returning Kasey Palmer having a hand in all three Simms goals.
Fabio Tavares added two more late in the game as Coventry eased into the quarter-finals for the first time since 2009.
After scoring his first, Simms held up a shirt bearing the name of team-mate Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, who was taken to hospital after being injured in that Preston game with what manager Mark Robins described as a “really bad injury”.
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Line-ups
Coventry
Formation 4-2-3-1
13Wilson22Latibeaudiere4Thomas15Kitching21Bidwell29Torp6Kelly30Tavares Desidério45Palmer11Wright9Simms
13Wilson
22Latibeaudiere
4Thomas
15Kitching
21BidwellSubstituted forDasilvaat 78′minutes
29TorpSubstituted forEcclesat 67′minutes
6Kelly
30Tavares Desidério
45PalmerSubstituted forvan Ewijkat 67′minutes
11WrightSubstituted forO’Hareat 45′minutes
9SimmsSubstituted forGoddenat 66′minutes
Substitutes
2Binks
3Dasilva
10O’Hare
24Godden
27van Ewijk
28Eccles
41Lusala
48Bell
54Andrews
Maidstone United
Formation 4-4-2
1Covolan Cauagnari6Brown5Fowler4Greenidge14Kyprianou16Sole8Corne15Bone10Reynolds11Duku7Berkeley-Agyepong
1Covolan Cauagnari
6BrownSubstituted forHoyteat 69′minutes
5Fowler
4Greenidge
14KyprianouSubstituted forEzennolimat 69′minutes
16SoleSubstituted forGurungat 69′minutes
8Corne
15Bone
10Reynolds
11DukuSubstituted forCourtat 79′minutes
7Berkeley-AgyepongSubstituted forIandoloat 87′minutes
Substitutes
2Hoyte
3Ezennolim
12Earle
13Court
17Smith