Manchester City vs Chelsea LIVE: FA Cup semi-final team news, line-ups and more today

It’s already been a historic day for Chelsea Football Club. A shocking victory for Emma Hayes’s facet, who turned the primary team in 5 years to beat Barcelona away from dwelling, means they are going to take a 1-0 lead again to Stamford Bridge in subsequent week’s Women’s Champions League semi-final second leg.

Over to Mauricio Pochettino and his gamers now to see if they will additionally safe a giant semi-final win for the Blues.

Raheem Sterling is on the Chelsea bench as Enzo Fernandez returns from the 6-0 win over Everton. Cole Palmer begins, in fact, with Noni Madueke and Nicolas Jackson finishing the entrance three.

Axel Disasi returns to the Chelsea bench however Trevoh Chalobah is most well-liked.

There isn’t any Erling Haaland within the Man City squad as Pep Guardiola makes 4 modifications from his team that performed Real Madrid, with Stefan Ortega, Nathan Ake, John Stones and Julian Alvarez are available. Kevin De Bruyne makes it.

Man City XI: Ortega, Walker, Stones, Akanji, Ake, Rodri, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Grealish, Alvarez

Chelsea XI: Petrovic; Gusto, Chalobah, Silva, Cucurella; Fernandez, Caicedo, Gallagher; Madueke, Palmer, Jackson

Erling Haaland is a doubt after the striker was unable to proceed in opposition to Real Madrid, however Kevin De Bruyne is match after additionally asking to come back off earlier than further time. Manchester City are usually not thought to have any main new harm issues, although workload administration can be key after the Real Madrid second leg stretched past further time. Kyle Walker was capable of full all the recreation after his hamstring difficulty, however could also be given an opportunity to get better right here.

For Chelsea, Raheem Sterling, Enzo Fernandez and Axel Disasi can be found after lacking the 6-0 win over Everton, whereas Christopher Nkunku is again in “partial training”. Chelsea stay with out Levi Colwill, Reece James and Wesley Fofana.

The gamers are arriving at Wembley as Manchester City face Chelsea for a spot within the FA Cup semi-finals.

Pep Guardiola has known as on his Manchester City facet to reply to midweek disappointment as they appear to guide their place within the FA Cup last.

“We don’t have an option, we don’t want to feel sorry for ourselves,” he stated. “We carried out at our greatest [against Real Madrid] however weren’t capable of win.

“We don’t have time to mirror, we’ll try this within the summertime. In soccer you compete to win, however typically you lose video games, and that’s what occurred.”

It was an argument straight from the playground. Even as Chelsea cruised to their finest win of the season, Mauricio Pochettino’s facet by some means discovered a method to remind everybody of how far there’s to go earlier than this younger team may be taken severely. “If they behave like kids, it’s impossible,” sighed Pochettino, unable to cover his frustration.

Chelsea supervisor Mauricio Pochettino was left “so upset” after his gamers argued over penalty-taking duties through the 6-0 win over Everton on Monday evening, in scenes he branded “unacceptable”.

Chelsea had been 4 targets up – with Cole Palmer scoring a first-half hat-trick at Stamford Bridge- when Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke sparked the unsavoury incidents as they began pushing and shoving over who ought to take the penalty.

Today’s FA Cup semi-final may very well be determined by penalties and Pochettino stated: “We had been speaking so much this week as a result of we had been practising penalties. I believe it’s clear. I made clear after the sport. We had a gathering with the gamers and workers and they had been concerned additionally the sporting director.

“I defined my emotions and sooner or later it can not occur like this. The message was clear and now we have to transfer. They are intelligent and perceive the state of affairs. In one other manner it’s good {that a} participant desires to take duty for a penalty, present the character and persona of the team and the gamers.

“But they should respect self-discipline and the foundations that are so essential. The manner they wished to do issues was in a really improper manner. It’s essential for them to study and for us to use widespread sense and act differently sooner or later. Now all is evident we have to transfer on.”

The man typically described as soccer’s best supervisor thought-about a end result that would result in Carlo Ancelotti successful a fifth Champions League, whereas his personal tally will stay a mere three. “In other sports, we would have won with those statistics,” stated Pep Guardiola. Manchester City had 32 pictures to Real Madrid’s eight. Real scored 4 penalties to City’s three. Barcelona’s most profitable coach quoted his mentor. “Johan Cruyff said luck doesn’t exist and I agree with him.”

There is, although, a case that fortune didn’t favour City: eradicated on penalties after 210 minutes of drama, they may mirror upon Real’s two deflected targets within the Bernabeu, the sickness that made Kevin De Bruyne a late withdrawal within the Spanish capital, the second when Erling Haaland hit the bar in Manchester, when the Belgian blazed over as he appeared set to cap a tour de drive with a decider. There was Bernardo Silva’s misguided determination to strive and chip Andriy Lunin from 12 yards; “it happens,” stated a forgiving Guardiola. They had been superb margins and this might have been one other season of continental superiority. Indeed Ruben Dias, scarcely probably the most outspoken of footballers, stated City “dominated the whole game” in opposition to Real.