Swansea vs Man City LIVE as Blues hope to join Manchester United in FA Cup quarter-final draw

Swansea likelihood

Good defending from Eric Garcia. Jamal Lowe is in a capturing place however the ball simply will not fall and Garcia does nicely to bundle the ball behind. From the nook Guehi heads vast.

A reminder that the hosts are nonetheless firmly on this one.

Watch Walker’s lengthy vary curling effort

Sort of.

Very long time coming for Walker

Kyle Walker does not rating usually, particularly not within the FA Cup.

Swansea nearly reply immediately

Swansea despatched a reminder their of their risk as they assault from their kick off and despatched a header narrowly over the bar.

Is it Walker’s or Torres’?

Our writers cannot resolve.

Metropolis open the scoring!!

Kyle Walker crosses seeking Ferran Torres, who could or could not get a contact, and the ball is behind the online. Metropolis lead.

Metropolis attempting to make themselves heard

Cries from the Metropolis bench of offside as Swansea come ahead. There is no such thing as a VAR tonight so every bench should do what they’ll to attempt to affect the officers.

Woodman denies Torres

Ferran Torres does every part proper, however Swansea keeper Freddie Woodman is the same as his effort. Nice save.

Is a document actually on supply tonight?

All these mentions of Metropolis being on the right track tonight to interrupt the top-flight document by chalking up a 15-match successful streak, in all competitions, are a bit vast of the mark.

The Blues already maintain that exact document, once they received TWENTY on the bounce in 2017, en path to Pep Guardiola’s first league title win, with the League Cup being added.

The truth that they beat Wolves on penalties in that run bothers some, however each the worldwide regulation makers Ifab, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Soccer Statisticians have confirmed {that a} shoot-out win DOES rely as a win.

So in the event that they win tonight, the Blues shall be one and two within the listing.

Torres cannot join cleanly

Metropolis capitalise after a unfastened ball from Swansea, and it involves Ferran Torres however the volley is not an excellent one.

Now Laporte sees an effort go vast

Aymeric Laporte sends a header again throughout purpose on the again submit however there’s no one there. If it was a shot, it wasn’t on the right track, if it was a go, no one was there.

Jesus effort goes vast

Benjamin Mendy drills in a low cross in direction of Gabriel Jesus, who guides an effort vast. Unfortunate.

Metropolis with a number of possession

First Swansea assault

Swansea get behind Eric Garcia, and the pull-back in direction of Yan Dhanda is reduce out by Rodri. Good masking.

Mendy given freedom to come back ahead

Raheem Sterling, so vast so usually at Anfield, is coming inside continuously in these opening minutes and every time he doesn’t Guardiola is shouting to remind him.

That’s giving Mendy the total flank to run down – an instance of how the workforce adapt for various gamers and completely different opposition.

Again to his toes

Jesus limps off the pitch and the way runs, barely gingerly, again into the motion.

Jesus damage concern

Gabriel Jesus fires in direction of purpose from the sting of the realm, forcing the goalkeeper to beat it away, and goes down after showing to twist his ankle barely within the course of.

Chilly circumstances

I’m not saying it’s chilly, however the Metropolis substitutes have gotten sizzling water bottles to maintain them heat on the bench! Hopefully they make their option to the press field…

Kick off!

The gamers take the knee and we’re underway.

Groups are out

Metropolis of their navy away strip.

Swansea sticking to their weapons

We’d get handled to an open sport as Steve Cooper says his Swansea aspect will keep on with their standard, expansive method.

‘We’ll begin with ambition,’ he says, insisting they’ll attempt to play soccer.

You sense that will go well with Metropolis, but it surely will also be a priority to an extent if the house aspect are prepared to get on the Metropolis defence.

Pep’s pre-match ideas

Pep ‘one-game-at-a-time’ Guardiola has been chatting with BT Sport:

“Everybody deserves to play. Now we have many video games so we begin with the very best workforce we consider can beat them

“Swansea is at all times a workforce for the Premier League, at all times had good managers, good gamers, play good. The Championship is a tricky league, we all know it. In a single sport something can occur. We ready as critically as attainable and attempt to win the sport.

“Necessary is win the sport, we’ll see [setting new top flight winning record], give attention to successful the sport, that is what we’ve got to do. Actuality is the current and the current is sweet as a result of we’ve got received many video games but it surely’s vital what we do and what we should always do to win the sport.!

Pep can document landmark win tonight

Pep Guardiola can declare his two hundredth win as Metropolis boss tonight if Metropolis do beat Swansea.

The supervisor does take delight within the milestone moments and 200 wins in fewer than 5 seasons shall be extraordinarily good going.

The workforce have a 100 per cent document at this stadium underneath Guardiola, having received as soon as every within the league, league cup and FA Cup.

A cause to be cautious

It was put to Guardiola yesterday how good a run Swansea are on and lower-league groups that aren’t used to dropping have at all times been a thorn in Metropolis’s aspect – even when their document within the cups wouldn’t essentially recommend so.

That is prone to be a trickier sport than a mid-table Premier League workforce – particularly as a result of it’s away – because the Championship aspect are on a run of kind that simply doesn’t occur for almost all of high flight sides.

No resting up with the quadruple on supply

One other robust Guardiola workforce within the cup, regardless of the conflict with Spurs being simply three days away.

In some methods, the supervisor had his hand compelled by accidents to Fernandinho and Kevin De Bruyne, however he might have performed Tommy Doyle instead of Ilkay Gundogan, so worthwhile to the Blues today.

The very fact he has performed eleven front-liners and stacked the bench with children, factors to the concept that he fancies the prospect of repeating the home treble of two years in the past – and perhaps go one additional and land the unprecedented Quadruple!

Classes from final time on the Liberty

The final time these two groups met within the FA Cup was simply two years in the past, when Berant Celina scored a dream purpose for the Swans towards his previous membership to arrange what regarded like being an upset.

Celina’s dipping effort made it 2-0, however the arrival of Sergio Aguero as a second half substitute turned the sport on its head and the Argentine ace bagged a late winner to ship the Blues by means of 3-2.

Celina’s dalliance with attainable headlines additionally didn’t final – he signed for French relegation strugglers Dijon this season.

Video – Metropolis arriving on the Liberty

Gomes deserves his likelihood

Fascinating to see Claudio Gomes make one other look on the Metropolis bench after final week’s journey to Burnley, which was his first in practically three years after signing for the Blues from PSG as an 18-year-old.

He performed ONE SECOND for Metropolis, presumably the shortest look within the membership’s historical past, when he went on as a sub on the finish of the Neighborhood Defend win over Chelsea in 2018, and has solely had 4 minutes since then, in a cup win over Fulham a month later.

His switch prompted fairly a stir in French soccer, as he was a star within the youth ranks, however he wound up taking part in for the PSV youth workforce whereas on mortgage there final season.

He has impressed for the under-23s since returning and will get his reward tonight.

Swansea workforce information

Former Blue Joel Latibeaudiere begins in defence for the hosts.

Why Dias is not within the squad

It is the primary time he is not made a squad since becoming a member of.