FA Cup News: Man City Advances to Round of 32, United Plays a Replay vs. Wolves

In today’s FA Cup fixtures, clubs from Manchester had mixed success. On one side, Man City routinely defeated Port Vale 4-1, and progressed to the next round, while Man United played a goalless draw against Wolverhampton on the road.

Struggling United

Unlike City, the Red Devils had a tough time at Molineux, and they complicated their lives a lot after today’s match. Not only that, they didn’t win but will have to play a replay game, which will come in the most difficult time when the Europa League starts and many other challenges appear in front of them.

Also, the shocking thing is that the guests didn’t have a single shot on target despite the higher possession percentage and 12 goal attempts.

“It was a tough game,” Victor Lindelof said, trying to justify the poor performance upfront. “There has been a lot of games during this period, and we changed a few players.

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On the other side, the Wolves were defending, not risking anything, and searching for their chance from the counter-attack. Matt Doherty scored a goal, but it was disallowed with the ball hitting his hand following the header.

Nuno Espirito Santo, the manager of the hosts, was not very pleased with the fact that his team needs to play another match in this competition. Wolves to have international duties and are chasing the fourth place in the Premiership, which is why they need every moment to relax and rest.

“We wanted to solve the situation today, because we have a very tight schedule. But we want to play. We have a week to recover well.”

Man City Confident

Guardiola and his Citizens didn’t have any troubles against Port Vale. They posted a 4-1 win and confidently cruised past the rival into the next stage of the oldest football competition in the world. The only moment when it looked like an even match was in the 35th minute, once Tom Pope’s header hit the back of City’s net, to tie the score.

However, that lasted for seven minutes, until Kun Aguero showcased his fantastic feeling for scoring as he executed for 2-1. The Argentinian striker was cleverly following the entire action, and eventually scored alone on the far post of the rival’s goal.

Other scorers for the hosts were Alexander Zinchenko, who broke the ice in this match after 20 minutes, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Phil Foden. Harwood-Bellis, with 17 years and 339 days, is the youngest domestic player to score for the Citizens since Micah Richards in 2005. Back then, Richards had 17 years and 240 days.

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Though we need to give credit to the guests who came to Etihad with their guard dropped, and to enter an open battle, unlike the majority of the teams who come here.

In other matches, Leicester beat Vigan with 2-0, Bournemouth trashed Luton 4-0, and for one moment snapped the row of poor results. Meanwhile, Aston Villa couldn’t do the same, as they suffered elimination at Craven Cottage to Fulham, 2-1.

Norwich City beat Preston on the road, 4-2, while Watford managed to reach only a draw at home against Tranmere, 3-3. The Hornets who are desperately fighting to stay alive in the Premiership also need to lose energy on an additional event.