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news and stats ahead of Chelsea vs Man City in the FA Cup semi-finals on
Saturday (kick-off 5.30pm).
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Andreas Christensen will miss Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester
City on Saturday due to a muscle injury.
The Denmark defender missed the midweek Champions League clash with Porto
and has failed to recover in time for the Wembley showdown.
N'Golo Kante is fit enough to start his second match in a week, with Mateo
Kovacic still sidelined through hamstring trouble.
Man City will be without record goalscorer Sergio Aguero once again.
The Argentinian has missed the last three games with a muscular problem, the
latest in a catalogue of fitness issues to have marred his final season at
the club.
City have no other fresh fitness concerns but, as in previous domestic cup
ties this season, Zack Steffen could take over from Ederson in goal.
Opta stats
Chelsea have lost four of their last five FA Cup ties against Manchester
City, including a 2-1 loss at this stage in 2013. However, they did win
their most recent such encounter 5-1 in February 2016.
Manchester City have won six of their last nine meetings with Chelsea in all
competitions (D1 L2), beating the Blues 3-1 at Stamford Bridge in the
Premier League already this season.
Manchester City have lost none of their three meetings with Chelsea at the
new Wembley Stadium, beating them 2-1 in the 2013 FA Cup semi-final, 2-0 in
the 2018 Community Shield, and on penalties in the 2019 League Cup final.
Chelsea are looking to reach the FA Cup final for a 15th time, with only
Arsenal (21) and Manchester United (20) reaching it more often than the
Blues. Chelsea have won seven of their last eight semi-final ties, losing
only against Man City in 2013 in this run.
Manchester City have won nine of their last 11 FA Cup semi-final matches,
though they have been eliminated at this stage in two of their four previous
campaigns under Pep Guardiola (vs Arsenal in both 2017 and 2020).
Chelsea are looking to reach the FA Cup final for the fourth time in the
last five seasons, failing only in 2018-19 in this run. Thomas Tuchel would
be the first ever German manager to reach the English FA Cup final.
Man City boss Pep Guardiola is unbeaten in all five of his managerial
meetings with Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel (W3 D2), with all of these coming
between 2013 and 2016 when the Spaniard was in charge of Bayern Munich.
Sergio Agüero has scored six goals in his 10 appearances at Wembley Stadium
for Manchester City. His six goals are more than any other Man City player
has netted at the ground.
No player has scored more goals in the 2020-21 FA Cup tournament (excl.
qualifiers) than Chelsea's Tammy Abraham (4).
Man City's Kevin De Bruyne has been involved in nine goals in his last eight
FA Cup matches, scoring four and assisting five.
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