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Gonzalez stunner completes late Manchester City turnaround to crush Southampton’s FA Cup dreams

Gonzalez stunner completes late Manchester City turnaround to crush Southampton’s FA Cup dreams

Published by Sam Flores

Hello and welcome to our live blog for the first of this season’s FA Cup semi-finals as Manchester City take on Southampton at a sun-soaked Wembley Stadium. It’s the business end of the season, and Pep Guardiola’s sky blue machine is purring. Man City head into this contest on a five-game winning run, where they’ve collected two victories over Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final and the Premier League, while also beating Liverpool, Chelsea and Burnley. Having already ticked the Carabao Cup off their list, Man City are charging towards a domestic treble. They’re now top of the Premier League and are the overwhelming favourites to win the FA Cup as they’re expected to bulldoze Southampton here at Wembley, and whoever gets to the final out of Chelsea and Leeds United. Despite all Guardiola’s glittering success at Man City, this season’s FA Cup is an opportunity for redemption after losing the competition’s last two finals against Manchester United and Crystal Palace in 2024 and 2025, respectively. Southampton stand in Man City’s way, and they’re in …

Dominic Solanke’s scorpion-kick stunner earns Spurs draw against Man City

Dominic Solanke’s scorpion-kick stunner earns Spurs draw against Man City

Published by Sam Flores

Despite blaming the referee for the change of momentum in Tottenham’s favour, Guardiola admitted his City team had an “emotional issue” they failed to overcome after Solanke’s first goal. Guardiola said: “I would prefer not to have the transitions, but it’s an emotional issue for the first goal that the referees concedes to Spurs and after that the momentum is difficult to control whatever happens here in England. “We know we cannot control it all the time, of course if it was 0-3 or 0-4, but we have a lot of new players. We have to try to finish the actions a bit better but the game was well played and sometimes with long balls, second balls, sometimes you miss it.” Guardiola brushed off any suggestion that he may be forced to prioritise other competitions now that City are six points behind Arsenal in the Premier League title race. He said: “As much as the chance is there, the hope will always be there. It happens. I know that in these types of games, always …