FA Cup Semi-Final | City v Chelsea | Sat 20 Apr 5:15pm SOLD OUT

Who do you want in the Semi Final?

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Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
Coventry play Tuesday and united fans have got an email saying the game will be Saturday just the time to be confirmed

I’m sure city would opt for Sunday anyway with us playing Wednesday in the CL
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Tbf I think our site had it down as the Saturday too, potentially could have just been an automatic email sent out after they’d won (only half an hour after)

Depends when they schedule our PL game too, probably leave us waiting for official confirmation.
 
Claytop said:
Tbf I think our site had it down as the Saturday too, potentially could have just been an automatic email sent out after they’d won (only half an hour after)

Depends when they schedule our PL game too, probably leave us waiting for official confirmation.
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Well I hope they sort it asap. On a far too regular basis these fixtures take much too long to finalise, leaving supporters with a pain in the arse sorting travel, accomodation etc. Get the date sorted and announced pronto, with the sales criteria done right as well.
 
Stephen230 said:
I don’t want to put a dampener on things but people seeming to think Chelsea is a gimme, maybe have short memories of Guardiola’s record in FA Cup Semis.

Won: Brighton, Sheff. U.

Lost: Arsenal, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool.

On the plus side we won’t have Steffen chucking them in.

But it’s a competition he very much treats as the third priority at this time of year.

That said, even the weakest City side should be good enough to give the best Chelsea a good run for their money, so I’m still hopeful.
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Unfortunately the club & Pep proritise the Champs league and in a few of those semi-final defeats we were in the latter stages of the Champs league a few days before the Wembley game and we rested several players ive been to most of those semi-finals and its pisser after spending plenty of dosh on the day out that we have a weakened team.
Its the nature of the beast we cannot play our best team in every game and rotation has to be accepted , incidentally i will not be going to the Chelsea semi-final , saving my money for June 1st and Barcelona in the final :)
 
Don't suppose we can moan too much about Uniteds easy draw when we got the championship team last year. To be honest could live with losing to Chelsea, last years final was perfect and don't want my memory's tarnished by the risk of losing to those bastards. We are much better than them as we have proved twice this season, but after they beat the dippers can take nothing for granted.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Don't suppose we can moan too much about Uniteds easy draw when we got the championship team last year. To be honest could live with losing to Chelsea, last years final was perfect and don't want my memory's tarnished by the risk of losing to those bastards. We are much better than them as we have proved twice this season, but after they beat the dippers can take nothing for granted.
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That's true. We got Sheffield United while the rags played Brighton.
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
Coventry play Tuesday and united fans have got an email saying the game will be Saturday just the time to be confirmed

I’m sure city would opt for Sunday anyway with us playing Wednesday in the CL
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Was thinking the same.

Sunday would be best after a visit to Madrid if we could move Brighton to Wed.

Just need decent kick off times from FA but their track record is awful.

I will be going, dont care if we play U21s, we need to be there to support the greatest Manager in our lifetimes.
 
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We have to deal with Chelsea first, however beating United at Wembley is a different proposition than trying to beat them on their own midden at Old Toilet and let's face it were not bad at that either.

Have they already forgotten how we battered them despite the scoreline? Yes they have.

They have beaten us once in the last 5 meetings, us winning 4, where they had to suspend the rules of football to do it, with an aggregate scoreline of 13 - 6.

They won't admit it but they'll be praying we don't make the final.
 
Tbilisi said:
Was thinking the same.
Sunday would be best after a visit to Madrid if we could move Brighton to Wed.

Just need decent kick off times from FA but their track record is awful.

I will be going, dont care if we play U21s, we need to be there to support the greatest Manager in our lifertmes.
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I’m hoping for an early KO time maybe 2pm but looking at the PL fixtures that there’s no big games really and villa West Ham and Liverpool will all play Sunday. I’m hoping we are not but I can see it being the later KO time for tv as we will be the biggest game that day
 
Tbilisi said:
Was thinking the same.
Sunday would be best after a visit to Madrid if we could move Brighton to Wed.

Just need decent kick off times from FA but their track record is awful.

I will be going, dont care if we play U21s, we need to be there to support the greatest Manager in our lifertmes.
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Klopp won't be there...
 
Don't write off Coventry, they fully deserved to beat Wolves,imo .Wolves keeper had a great game and Coventry had numerous good efforts go close.
Wolves are in the same footballing bracket as the D/S if not better,and Coventry play in Sky Blue,so they have a lot going for them.
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
I’m hoping for an early KO time maybe 2pm but looking at the PL fixtures that there’s no big games really and villa West Ham and Liverpool will all play Sunday. I’m hoping we are not but I can see it being the later KO time for tv as we will be the biggest game that day
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As a club we should be lobbying for a sensible ko time whether it be the Saturday or Sunday. Surely an FA Cup semi should take precedent over the PL but when it comes to TV they will want their audience.

Three games on Sunday due to Europe games on Thursday are Villa v Bournemouth, Palace v West Ham and Fulham v Liverpool. Guarantee it that they will all ko at 2.00 with one of them on TV and we will have a shitty 4.30 ko if we play Sunday.
 
Eds said:
As a club we should be lobbying for a sensible ko time whether it be the Saturday or Sunday. Surely an FA Cup semi should take precedent over the PL but when it comes to TV they will want their audience.

Three games on Sunday due to Europe games on Thursday are Villa v Bournemouth, Palace v West Ham and Fulham v Liverpool. Guarantee it that they will all ko at 2.00 with one of them on TV and we will have a shitty 4.30 ko if we play Sunday.
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A 1:30 kick off would be ideal, could then easily go down and back same day
 
Stephen230 said:
I don’t want to put a dampener on things but people seeming to think Chelsea is a gimme, maybe have short memories of Guardiola’s record in FA Cup Semis.

Won: Brighton, Sheff. U.

Lost: Arsenal, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool.

On the plus side we won’t have Steffen chucking them in.

But it’s a competition he very much treats as the third priority at this time of year.

That said, even the weakest City side should be good enough to give the best Chelsea a good run for their money, so I’m still hopeful.
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They do have a habit of beating us at Wembley.

We know who'll score the winner as well....
 
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