Watch: Manchester City thump Swansea in FA Cup fifth spherical for fifteenth win on the trot

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus scores his aspect’s third purpose throughout The Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round match between Swansea City and Manchester City at Liberty Stadium on Wednesday evening.

One of probably the most relentless schedules within the historical past of English soccer hasn’t stopped Manchester City placing collectively a record-setting run of wins.
It’s 15 straight victories and counting for Pep Guardiola’s irrepressible workforce, which has one other home treble in its sights.
On an action-filled night within the FA Cup that includes a wild 5-4 win for Everton over Tottenham, Man City beat second-tier Swansea 3-1 to additionally attain the quarterfinals and break the file for many consecutive wins in all competitions by a top-flight workforce. The mark had lasted for almost 130 years, with Preston successful 14 in a row in 1892. That was later matched by Arsenal’s class of 1987.
City has gone one higher throughout a pandemic, when matches within the Premier League or home cup competitions are being performed each three or 4 days to suit them right into a condensed season that began a month later than typical.
Indeed, by additionally advancing final month to the English League Cup ultimate, City has performed each weekend and midweek since Nov. 21 — apart from an eight-day break from Dec. 26-Jan. 3 throughout which the workforce’s coaching floor was closed due to a coronavirus outbreak. The variety of first-team gamers to check constructive bumped into double figures.
“That means a lot in this toughest period, in the Christmas and winter time,” mentioned Guardiola, whose aspect leads the Premier League by 5 factors with a recreation in hand. “To do what we have done in this time is quite remarkable.”
City received 20 straight video games in all competitions from August-December 2017, additionally below Guardiola, however a kind of victories got here in a penalty shootout within the League Cup after a 0-0 draw after further time.
Guardiola earned his 2 hundredth win in 268 video games answerable for City. However, it was a historic evening for very totally different causes for his long-time teaching rival, Jose Mourinho.

For simply the third time in a managerial profession spanning almost 1,000 video games, Mourinho noticed one among his groups concede 5 targets in a recreation as Tottenham misplaced a thriller at Goodison Park.
Bernard netted the successful purpose within the 97th minute for Everton, which trailed after three minutes, scored three targets in seven minutes close to the top of the primary half to forge forward, then conceded a purpose to Harry Kane with seven minutes left of regulation time to be taken to further time.
Also advancing to the final eight on Wednesday was Sheffield United, a 1-0 winner towards second-tier Bristol City, and Leicester, which beat Brighton by the identical rating due to Kelechi Iheanacho’s purpose within the fourth minute of stoppage time.
Manchester United and Bournemouth progressed on Tuesday.
EASY FOR CITY
In the 2018-19 season, City turned the primary English workforce to attain the home treble, beating Swansea en path to successful the FA Cup that yr by coming from 2-0 right down to win 3-2 within the quarterfinals.
City didn’t want to provide something as dramatic this time, taking the lead within the thirtieth when Kyle Walker’s low cross into the penalty space was missed by the sliding Ferran Torres on the close to submit and ended up creeping contained in the far submit.
Rodri performed in Raheem Sterling to double the benefit within the forty seventh, earlier than Gabriel Jesus managed a header throughout purpose by Bernardo Silva and slammed in a left-footed shot three minutes later.
Morgan Whittaker grabbed a comfort for Swansea, which included two United States internationals — Jordan Morris, who made his first begin, and Paul Arriola, who made his debut as a second-half substitute following his mortgage transfer from D.C. United. Their U.S. teammate, Zeck Steffen, performed in purpose for City.
(With inputs from AP.)