Minute-by-minute report: who will come out on top when the two heavyweights meet for the second time in four days? Find out with Rob Smyth
v Chelsea at the Etihad. It’s the tie of the FA Cup third round, a plumdinger between two teams who contested the Champions League final 18 months ago. The good news for both is that one of them will end a losing streak today. The bad news is that they’ll do it by losing.
To explain. In each of the last three seasons, City have been knocked out of hte FA Cup in the semi-finals.have gone one worse by losing the last three finals, a unique and unwelcome achievement. For one of them, the streak ends today. If it’s Chelsea – full disclosure, it’s not beyond the realms – the bizarre pressure on Graham Potter will intensify. As if a grotesque injury list wasn’t bad enough, he has drawn City in both cup competitions and had to play them in the league the other day as well.is Chelsea’s last realistic chance of winning a trophy this season; then I remembered how bad their form was before they won the Champions League in 2012 and 2021.
Chelsea owned this competition between 2006-12, winning it four times in six seasons, but they’ve only won it once in the last decade. City’s bid for world domination really got going when they beat Stoke in the 2011 final to win their first major trophy in 35 years. Since then they’ve only won it once, when they plugged Watford 6-0 to complete a slightly forgotten domestic Treble in 2018-19.
Under Pep Guardiola, and Manuel Pellegrini for that matter, City have been more of a Carabao Cup team. It’s not their biggest priority this year – RB Leipzig away on 22 February – but they wouldn’t say no to a bit of trophy-lifting action at Wembley in June. Yep, June.
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