Carlos Tevez scores a brace as Manchester City beat Notts County to head in to the fifth round of the FA Cup
Manchester City thrashed Notts County 5-0 in the fourth round of the FA cup at the City of Manchester Stadium, on Sunday. A brace from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Micah-Richards-c25259 helped City reach the fifth round of the competition. The
first leg ended 1-1 at the Meadow lane three weeks back.
Roberto http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 made four changes to his starting line-up that lost to Manchester United last weekend. Carlos Tevez was relegated to the bench as Edin Dzeko played as a lone striker in a 4-5-1 formation. Notts County played the same side that held City in
the first leg.
The first half started as both sides looked to make early inroads. The visitors came close of scoring in the second minute of the game, when Krystian Pearce stormed in the box from the corner and headed just centimeters over the bar.
Notts came close with another chance when Alan Gow struck a 30 yard free kick into the right corner and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Joe-Hart-c18699 made a sharp save down to his right.
The game became very lively as both teams created a lot of openings to score and finally the hosts broke the deadlock in the 37th minute. Vieira thumped in a thunderous header into the back of the net from David Silva’s corner to make it 1-0 for
the hosts.
Just before the half time, the visitors were denied by the woodwork, when Karl Hawley’s brilliant shot from 25 yards hit the post and ricocheted out.
The visitors started the second half in an attempt to equalize and they dominated the early possession. Nott’s chances suffered a body blow in the 58th minute, when Patrick Vieira scored his and City’s second of the afternoon. The Frenchman converted
a header from another corner into the back of the net to make it 2-0 for City.
The visitors didn’t lose hope as they continued their attempts to pull it back, but the hosts scored their 3rd goal in the 84th minute. Dzeko released Tevez into the box, who guided it past the keeper to make it 3-0.
Two minutes later, Tevez scored the fourth goal for the hosts. It was almost the replica of the goal he scored a couple of minutes earlier. City scored their fifth in the last minute of the stoppage time, Micah Richards volleyed home from a corner to seal
the game at 5-0 for City, as the resilient visitors looked shattered by the defeat.
Manchester City will play Aston Villa in the fifth round of the competition on the 2nd of March.
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