Talk about a game of two halves. Man City were poor in the first half, Fabian Delph tried his best to replicate his antics of last season by giving away a clear penalty. However, I must give credit to Swansea and Bersant Celina for a fantastic second Swansea goal, with the build up from the goalkeeper and a wonderful curled shot around Ederson.
Man City did create many chances but the story looked to be that City were not going to score and the FA Cup dream would disappear.
The second half arrived and Man City looked angry and as if Pep Guardiola had really fired them up at half time. Leroy Sane and Fabian Delph were rightly hooked before the hour, as they were awful.
Sergio Aguero was brought on to give Man City more numbers in the box and what a difference he made. He was on 5 minutes until he set up Bernardo Silva with a delicious curled finish to make it 2-1. However, more VAR controversy was to impact the rest of the game. Raheem Sterling was deemed to have been fouled by Cameron Carter-Vickers, it was very soft, but Aguero’s penalty hit the unlucky Kristoffer Nordfeldt on the back and went in to make the game 2-2.
The final goal of the game was a wonderful ball in by Bernardo Silva and resulted in a very good header by Sergio Aguero at the near post. However, if VAR was being used tonight it would have been disallowed as he was clearly offside.
Here’s how I rated the players:
