Manchester City Favourites to Progress in FA Cup
Swansea City vs Manchester City - 10/02/2021
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We have reached the fifth round of the FA Cup and on Wednesday the 10th of February we have an interesting match to look forward to between Swansea City and Manchester City.
The match will take place at the Liberty Stadium with the hosts coming into the game sitting 3rd in the Championship while the visitors are top of the Premier League.
Swansea City are in good form and recorded a 2-0 victory at home over Norwich City in the Championship on the weekend. Having opened the scoring towards the end of the first half, Swansea City added a second goal early in the second half to seal maximum points.
That result means Swansea City are now only 2 points behind Norwich City, who are top of the table and they have a game in hand.
Swansea City are currently on a 10 match unbeaten run in all competitions during which they have won 8 games. Two of those victories have come in the FA Cup, with a 2-0 success at Stevenage in the third round followed by a tremendous 5-1 home victory over Nottingham Forest in the fourth round.
Trends show Swansea City have won 6 of their last 8 home FA Cup ties, with victories coming against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Gillingham, Brentford, and Nottingham Forest. However, their most recent home FA Cup defeat came in 2019 against Manchester City.
Interestingly, Swansea City have scored 2 more goals in 8 of their last 9 home FA Cup ties and have seen both teams score in each of their last 4 on home soil.
Manchester City travel to Wales full of confidence following their excellent 4-1 win at Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday. With the score 0-0 at half time, Manchester City came out on the front foot in the second half and took advantage of some poor goalkeeping to build up a 3-1 lead. A superb goal from Phil Foden sealed the victory.
That result means Manchester City have won each of their last 14 matches in all competitions and remain undefeated in their last 21 games in all competitions. Two of those matches have come in the FA Cup and Manchester City have defeated Birmingham City 3-0 at home plus Cheltenham Town 3-1 away from home.
Trends show Manchester City have won 12 of their last 13 games in the FA Cup with the only defeat coming in the semi-final last season against Arsenal. They have scored 2 or more goals in 4 of their last 5 away FA Cup ties.
Team news and Swansea City are without the injured duo of Liam Cullen and Steven Benda. It will be interesting to see if Steve Cooper makes changes to his team from the weekend, with the promotion race in mind.
Manchester City are sure to rotate their squad for this game. That could see starts for Kyle Walker, Aymeric Laporte, Gabriel Jesus, Zack Steffen, Gabriel Jesus, and Ferran Torres.
This should be an exciting game with promotion chasing Swansea City hoping to push the Premier League leaders close.
However, even if Manchester City choose to change several players from the weekend, they have enough to win this game, with the possibility of both teams scoring.
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3.07
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17.50
8.10
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