Man City vs Chelsea

Bashir Humphreys is handed a Chelsea debut for today's FA Cup third round tie at Man City.

[Raheem Sterling](/en/teams/profile/raheem-sterling) and [Christian Pulisic](/en/teams/profile/christian-pulisic) not involved after picking up injuries early in Thursday’s league meeting between the teams, the attack also has a new look. [Graham Potter](/en/teams/profile/graham-potter)’s side. [Hakim Ziyech](/en/teams/profile/hakim-ziyech) starts, as do [Conor Gallagher](/en/teams/profile/conor-gallagher) and [Mason Mount](/en/teams/profile/mason-mount).

Manchester City and Chelsea face off again, this time in the third round of the FA Cup. The two sides went head-to-head on Thursday night when Manchester ...

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Match report as goals from Riyad Mahrez (2), Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden gave Manchester City a 4-0 win over Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup; ...

I thought they gave everything and showed their quality but we are disappointed we went out of the competition. His goal against them in the Carabao Cup in November now looks to have been a turning point. He was not playing at the level he is playing right now. “The FA Cup is a competition I love. At the same time, we struggled. Either way, it is the sort of problem that Potter would love to have. What a goal their third of the first half was. With that advantage, the confidence grew and Guardiola's side really started to purr. Graham Potter made six changes to the Chelsea team that were beaten by the same opposition on Thursday evening. If Chelsea could do little to stop that, the second was self-inflicted. Pep Guardiola's team can look forward to a tie at home to Arsenal if the Premier League leaders overcome Oxford United on Monday evening. His curling free-kick from the right edge of the box arrowed into the top corner beyond Kepa Arrizabalaga's dive.

Get a report of the Manchester City vs. Chelsea 2022-23 English FA Cup, Third Round football match.

[Argentina](/soccer/team?id=202) striker converting a penalty after a VAR review spotted a handball from [Kai Havertz](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231182/Kai-Havertz). [Riyad Mahrez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/163940/Riyad-Mahrez) opened the scoring with a well-struck free-kick on 23 minutes to send City ahead. City also knocked Chelsea out of this season's Carabao Cup in November.

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.

[Chelsea](https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea), Zakaria’s long-range shot hits Akanji in a babymaking area and loops over the bar for a corner. They haev a brilliant coach - it’s far too early to say whether he has the personality to cope with a job of this size – and maybe a dozen of very talented players aged 25 or under. This is worth keeping an eye on in the medium-term, absurd as it sounds. It must be so humiliating for good players to have to dot the Is and cross the Ts on a heavy defeat that was confirmed before half-time. “I doubt he’d do it for a crucial match, as he’d be slaughtered, but he must be thinking about it.” “1- If they wanted to draw more readers in making me an Everton fan makes no sense, they would be trying to whip up enthusiasm, not depression. Everything he did at Brighton suggests he is a top-class coach for clubs who want to build something longer term. 77 min “Might take issue with Potter being a brilliant coach,” says Simon Fuller. From the first angle it looked like he had sprayed it high to the left. 86 min Actually, I was talking nonsense: he just smashed it slightly to the left of centre. [Chelsea](https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea) at the Etihad. Riyad Mahrez scored two, with Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden getting the other goals.