Swansea City vs Manchester City - FA Cup

Swansea City vs Manchester City - Team News, Lineup, Prediction

Preview

Manchester City will travel to Swansea City in the FA Cup quarterfinals this weekend, with the aim of maintaining their charge by an unprecedented fourfold.

The Citizens have already added a trophy to the cabinet and, with the line of sight in sight, are the favorites of the bookmakers to win the other three competitions in which they remain.

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Swansea City

Football fans can be an inconstant group at best, the best personified in the last round of this competition when the Swansea fans booed their players at halftime and then cheered them full time.

The Swan lost second-tier teammate Brentford 1-0 in the interval this time last month, and could have been further behind, but the 11,000 attendees were treated to a much improved display in the second 45 minutes.

That day, Daniel James was at the heart of everything good for Swansea, breaking Brentford's defenders to his rhythm and winning his side, which in the end was a deserved 4-1 victory.

However, that was a rare bright day for the Welsh team, since they have lost three of their four games since then in the Championship, which put an end to any small hope of having a challenge for a playoff spot.

Graham Potter's team has lost five straight games in their travels, the last time they fell 3-0 to the West Bromwich Albion automatic promotion challengers on Wednesday night, a game that will be best remembered by Bersant Celina's comic criminal with 1-0 low.

If that penalty had been converted, and it had not been affected, City could have taken something from the game. As it stands, the 2-0 win at home over Bolton Wanderers on March 2 is the only time they have avoided defeat in their last five league games, leaving them in 15th place on the table.

In fact, Swansea may be as close to the relegation zone as it is to the playoffs at the end of the weekend, as several of the teams below them are in league action.

Saturday's visit to the English champions is a good distraction for Potter's men as they seek to reach the FA Cup semifinals for the third time in their history, as they did in 1925-26 and 1963-64. .

After flexing their muscles against Aston Villa, Gillingham and Brentford in the previous rounds, now comes a different kind of challenge completely against possibly the best side anywhere on the planet.

Manchester City

Only in 2019, Man City has already accumulated scores of 7-0 (against Rotherham United), 9-0 (against Burton Albion), 5-0 (against Burnley), 6-0 (against Chelsea) and 7-0 (vs. Schalke 04). The most worrying part for Swansea is that only two of those games were against teams outside the top division of their respective countries.

The Citizens showed once again in the middle of the week why so many are starting to compare them to the biggest clubs of all time when they spent the seven passes of Schalke unanswered. Winning the Premier League title with a century of points last season was tremendously impressive, but Pep Guardiola now has other goals in sight.

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Keeping Liverpool, now one point behind the champions in the toughest battle for first place in years, will make this year's success as impressive as last year's when City escaped. Adding one of the Champions League or FA Cup to your collection, since you already lifted the EFL Cup, would really make this the best campaign in its history.

Guardiola has repeatedly warned his players to take one game at a time and not look too far down the line. The trip to South Wales on Saturday gives the City its last test in a grueling race that has seen them play 21 games in four competitions since Christmas.

Incredibly, the Citizens have won 18 of their last 19 games, losing only to Newcastle United in that race, and their goals for the column are enough to send chills down to Swansea.

City has scored at least four goals in each of its three FA Cup matches this season: the last team in four in a row, was also Man City, during the 1925-26 season. They put seven goals beyond Rotherham, five past Burnley and then four beyond Newport County in the final round.

Newport was the team that gave the five winners of the FA Cup their toughest test so far in the competition, keeping them out in the first 45 minutes before disappearing in the second half. Swansea could do much worse than watching the exhibition of his Welsh club mate at Rodney Parade four weeks ago.

By virtue of his victory at Newport last month, Man City could now become the second team to win two FA Cup matches in Wales in a single season, joining Norwich City, which beat Rhyl and Newport in the campaign. 1950-51. doing it.

Team News

This being the last game of Man City before the international recess of two weeks, and having left the lower league in Wigan Athletic the last period, Guardiola will not want to rotate too much at Liberty Stadium.

Kevin De Bruyne and Fernandinho are still the two absentees of the Citizens, although both should return in time for the trip to Fulham later this month.
Support goalkeeper Claudio Bravo is also eliminated, but Fabian Delph is back involved and online for his first start since January.

Guardiola has favored the association Nicolas Otamendi-John Stones in this competition, although Vincent Kompany could return after being completely excluded against Schalke.

Gabriel Jesus has been involved in 10 goals in six starts in the National Cup this season for Man City (seven goals, three assists), and has scored three goals in two previous appearances against Swansea.

The home team may have to cope without Oliver McBurnie, meanwhile, as the striker did not recover from the injury in time to face West Brom midweek.

James, the star man against Brentford, is therefore in the contest of starting in the middle, as he did in The Hawthorns when used alongside Nathan Dyer, Celina and Wayne Routledge.

Celina will not be able to play any role this weekend, however, under the terms of her parent club loan contract Man City, so George Byers, also on target in the last round, could take over in that position , with Jay Fulton at his side

Manchester City Lineup Prediction:

GK: Ederson
DEF:  Danilo, Kompany, Otamendi, Delph
MID: Foden, Gundogan, D.Silva
FW:  Mahrez, jesus, sane

Swansea City Lineup Prediction:

GK: Nordfeldt
DEF:  Roberts, Van der Hoorn, Carter-Vickers, Naughton
MID:  Fulton, Grimes, Byers
FW:  Dyer, James, Routledge

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