Facts in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup Manchester City VS Birmingham City Score 3-0

Manchester City VS Birmingham City

It is a shame that the Birmingham team was beaten by Manchester City, Facts on FA Cup Fourth Round Results Manchester City vs Birmingham City Score 3-0, Manchester City won an easy victory like only a piece of cake over Birmingham City in the third round of the FA Cup at the Etihad, Sunday (10/01/21), Very extraordinary and unexpectedly Manchester City scored all of its goals in the first half. Bernardo Silva scored twice and Phil Foden made up the rest.

At the time of the match

The Manchester City team fielded their strongest team with Ruben Dias, Benjamin Mendy, Rodrigo, Kevin De Bruyne, and Gabriel Jesus. The result in the eighth minute, City opened the scoring through Bernardo Silva.

But what happened! The Birmingham back line failed to anticipate the incoming ball and the rebound fell at Silva's feet. With a volley, the ball was sent by Silva to the top corner of Andres Prieto 's goal.

The 1-0 goal made Manchester City even more vicious in pressing Birmingham when Jesus' strike headed towards goal, but it hit the defender and led to a corner.

After a few minutes. After that, Manchester City's reliable team doubled their lead in the 15th minute. As usual, City played short passes between Mahrez, Foden and De Bruyne. The opponent's back line was split and the ball stopped at Silva's feet before it was sent to the visitors' goal.

Manchester City then lowered the tempo of the game and flowed the ball more from foot to foot. The third came in the 33rd minute when Mahrez stabbed from the right and sent the ball to Foden. Foden had the ball briefly before firing into the bottom corner of Prieto's goal. Until halftime, the 3-0 score remained.

Entering the second half

The Birmingham City team tried to provide resistance to the Manchester City defense. As has been done by Leko and Colin, their collaboration has made it difficult for the left side of Manchester City's defense several times.

Manchester City are still in control of the match but they no longer press the gas deeply and have pulled out De Bruyne and Ruben Dias. City had broken into the Birmingham goal through Mahrez, but the referee disallowed it for being caught offside.

After that Manchester City's Silva had a chance to score a hat-trick in the 67th minute but his shot went wide of the target.

Then. In the remaining time, the Birmingham City team tried to at least minimize the situation but until time runs out, they still lose.

For Manchester City, they also couldn't add to a goal in this second half and they still won 3-0 and got back to qualify for the fourth round.

Line-up of players

Manchester City: Zack Steffen; Joao Cancelo (T. Harwood-Bellis 46'), Ruben Dias (John Stones 46'), Kyle Walker, Benjamin Mendy; Rodrigo (Fernandinho 67'); Riyad Mahrez, Kevin De Bruyne (Felix Nmecha 46'), Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden; Gabriel Jesus (Liam Delap 75').

Birmingham City: Andres Prieto; Maxime Colin, Jake Clarke-Salter, George Friend, Mikel San Jose; Maikel Kieftenbeld, Ivan Sunjic (Jeremie Bela 67'); Jon Toral (Aaron Clayton 46'), Jonathan Leko (Lukasz Jutkiewicz 68'), Ivan Sanchez; Scott Hogan (Marc Roberts 46')