Superb free-kick by De Bruyne! The three to retain their places in the starting line-up are De Bruyne, Rodri and Dias. Sterling, who has been incredibly quiet this half, has the chance to run at Azpilicueta but the Spaniard dispossesses him. Mount should be doing better! A second corner in as many minutes comes for the Citizens and De Bruyne once again misses his team-mates inside the area. Tuchel's men started the better in this semi-final clash and thought they had opened the scoring through Ziyech, only for Werner to be adjudged offside in the build-up to the goal. ... Chelsea 1-0 Man City César Azpilicueta bundles over Phil Foden and goes into Mike Dean's book. Ederson with a poor clearance it falls straight to Mount, who races forward and smashes the ball towards the near post, but it flies narrowly wide. SHARE. City have won nine of their last 11 FA Cup semi-final matches, though they have been eliminated at this stage in two of their four previous campaigns under Guardiola (vs Arsenal in both 2017 and 2020). -Match ends, Chelsea 2, Sheffield United 0. Rudiger receives some treatment on the touchline and then returns to the pitch just in time to defend City's free-kick from wide on the right. Moments later Chilwell attempts to cross for Mount, however, Cancelo is there to block away before Steffen is required to get involved. OFF THE POST! De Bruyne goes down in the middle of the park and the game pauses for City's physios to run on. No chances so far. Mendy needlessly nudges James in the back to offer Chelsea a free-kick inside their own half. Steffen, despite being under little pressure, opts to punch and Guardiola's men eventually get the ball clear inside their own area. We have a very interesting game on our hands now. Vidiprinter. Chelsea get away with one, however, Kepa is still yet to make a second-half save. The effort is rather speculative and Kepa saves with ease as he collapses down on the ball to waste a bit of time. 21:36 . CHANCE! Werner then leads the counter-attack, racing down the left-hand channel and into the City area before tamely shooting across Steffen with his left foot. CHELSEA SUBS: Willy Caballero, Kurt Zouma, Reece James, Jorginho, Billy Gilmour, Mateo Kovacic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Pedro, Tammy Abraham. Guardiola's men rarely tested Kepa and can have no complaints about their exit at the semi-final stage of this year's FA Cup. Unsurprisingly, Steffen, who is City’s cup goalkeeper, starts ahead of Ederson, while the likes of Mahrez, Gundogan and Foden all have to settle for the bench. The Spanish forward looks set to test Kepa but Fernandinho's pass just runs through to the goalkeeper before Torres can challenge him. Meanwhile City will travel to Newcastle at the weekend. How to follow and watch live. Dean quickly stops play as VAR checks for handball against the defender before allowing play to resume without needing to award a penalty. place in the FA Cup final is slipping away for Manchester City as we head into the final couple of minutes. SUBS: Christian Pulisic, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Kai Havertz, Kurt Zouma, Billy Gilmour, Willy Caballero, Marcos Alonso, Emerson, Olivier Giroud. Chelsea have alternated between defeat and victory in their last four Premier League home games against Man City, winning this exact fixture 2-0 last season. SAVE! The goal seems to have kicked Chelsea into gear, they are pushing forward themselves in search of another goal. LONDON -Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel said his side were closing the gap with Manchester City and their "benchmark" coach Pep Guardiola after the … Foden finds a pocket of space and plays towards the edge of the area, where Rodri drills a low right-footed shot towards goal. Ziyech should double his tally and the Blues' lead but he can only shoot tamely into the feet of Steffen as he goes one-on-one with the American inside the area. The Blues will take on Manchester City on Wednesday evening at the Academy Stadium and the match kicks off at 6pm (UK). The title could be wrapped up today, as if Manchester City fail to beat Chelsea then Liverpool will be crowned Premier League champions for the first time. Chelsea then went close themselves, via Christensen but his header from close range was well saved by Ederson. The winger breaks through on goal once again, this time he rounds Ederson and then slides the ball towards goal and it seems to be a certain goal. Guardiola makes another change as he brings off Torres and introduces Gundogan to City's midfield. Copyright © 2021 Goal (United States) All rights reserved. The Blues are sitting a little deeper now and watching City knock possession about in front of them. Werner is released down the left by Chilwell and the German reaches the edge of the area before drilling a pass across the face of goal. There will be live commentary on our Twitter page and regular updates on Facebook and Instagram. The current champions are in fine form themselves, having beaten Arsenal 3-0 and then Burnley 5-0 at the Etihad, to give themselves an eight point cushion above Leicester City. WIDE! Fernandinho looks for the forward run of Sterling but Azpilicueta is once again on hand to deal with the English forward before he can test Kepa. Referee Dean tells Sterling to get up but the game stops as Rudiger goes down holding his head. The Citizens, however, will have to wait to take the set-piece as Tuchel is going to make his third change of the game. City regain possession, however, as they look to peg back Chelsea, who had made the better start of the two teams up until this point. Tuchel's men have five more minutes to defend for as the fourth official indicates the amount of added time. Pulisic then thought he had scored again, but Walker cleared it off the line, before Fernandinho handled the ball on the line to deny Abraham, resulting in a Chelsea penalty and red card for the City man. The scoreline is perfect for Liverpool fans, as it stands they will be crowned Premier League champions, so City need to hit back. The pressure from City when they don't have the ball is excellent, they are chasing after everything to get back in possession, with Chelsea hardly touching the ball so far. Barkley smashes it towards goal, but Fernandinho gets across and makes a vital block just in time to turn it out of play for a corner. Referee Dean gets the second half of this FA Cup semi-final clash underway! SUBS: Ederson, Riyad Mahrez, Nathan Ake, Phil Foden, Bernardo Silva, John Stones, Ilkay Gundogan, Kyle Walker, Oleksandr Zinchenko. De Bruyne limps off and Guardiola sends on Foden to replace him in the Citizens' midfield. Live Commentary: Chelsea V Man City latest news, reviews, gossip, episode guide and find out when it’s on TV, on demand and on catch-up. Bernardo Silva does well down the left and he picks out Mendy who made a good run on the edge of the box, but the left-back fires his shot high over the crossbar. City take the resulting free-kick short and Mahrez finds time and space just inside the box and he tries to curl the ball into the top left-hand corner of the net. Only Richard Dunne (5) has had more Premier League red cards than Fernandinho (4) for Man City. The ball falls to Barkley after a poor clearance from Laporte following a low cross into the box by Alonso from the left. CLOSE! OVER! — Watch Chelsea v Man City live on BT Sport tonight! Their strong run against Tuchel's men, however, will be over if they can't find a late equaliser here. Ziyech's goal proves to be the difference so far in this one. Barkley's shot is blocked at the near post and goes out for a corner, after Pulisic's shot is also blocked. Chelsea reach their fourth FA Cup final in five seasons and end City's hopes of a quadruple this campaign. Meanwhile Chelsea will be very pleased with the result, they have looked good in defence, not allowing City much space in behind. Saturday is GameDay on talkSPORT as we bring you THREE live Premier League commentaries across our network, including Man City vs Chelsea at 5:30pm The episode was not found or is unavailable. Live. Ziyech has scored his fifth goal for Chelsea (all competitions) in what is his 30th appearance for the Blues. After going close at the other end, James hacks down Fernandinho and becomes the first booking of this FA Cup semi-final clash. Off the ball, Silva is holding his back on the floor and the Blues' medical team are required to come on to tend to the Brazilian. Fernandinho is sent off after blocking the shot on the goal line, denying Chelsea a goal. Laporte goes long in search of Jesus but Kepa comes out with real authority to claim the pass high above his head. Foden swings in a late City corner towards the back post, where Rodri towers above his opposite man to produce a downwards header towards the bottom left corner. Jorginho smartly works it across to Mount, who feeds the run of Chilwell with a first-time pass into the left-hand channel. City are lucky to still be level. Silva, much like De Bruyne earlier in the second half, limps off and Zouma is the man to replace the Brazilian in the Chelsea defence. In terms of Pulisic's introduction, the American will offer the Chelsea attack even more pace to exploit the Citizens on the counter-attack if the opportunity arises. Read about Chelsea v Man City in the Premier League 2019/20 season, including lineups, stats and live blogs, on the official website of the Premier League. 63 MINS: CHELSEA 1-1 MANCHESTER CITY. 17 April 2021 17 April 2021. Rodri climbs the highest to deal with James' set-piece but Chelsea regain possession. Match Overview - England - FA Cup, Chelsea 1 - 0 Manchester City, April 17, 2021 - Football365 The ball falls perfectly to Sterling just inside the box, he switches it onto his right foot and then tries to curl it into the top right-hand corner of the net. Frank Lampard has made two changes to his side that beat Villa, with Loftus-Cheek and Kovacic dropping out of the team and they have been replaced by Barkley and Pulisic, after the American scored and made the difference for the Blues. Nothing is given on the pitch by the referee, so VAR take a look at the incident and they award Chelsea a penalty and Fernandinho is shown a red card for being the last man. ... 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