Manchester City vs Chelsea team news, prediction, kick-off time & TV channel
Manchester City and Chelsea meet in this weekend’s FA Cup semi-final as they battle it out for a likely final clash against rivals Manchester United at Wembley.
Kick-off time and TV channel
Man City vs Chelsea will kick off at 5.15pm BST on Saturday the 20th of April, with live coverage available on BBC One.
The coverage will include pre and post-match analysis from the BBC Sports punditry team, with the 90 minutes from Wembley sandwiched in between.
Read on for our look ahead to this big game…
Man City team news
With Pep Guardiola chasing a treble for the second successive year, the games are coming thick and fast in all competitions at the moment, so could the City manager be tempted to rotate just a little for the FA Cup?
We’ve seen Guardiola try this before and it came back to haunt him when Liverpool beat City in the 2022 FA Cup semi-final on their way to winning the competition, so Pep might perhaps do well not to take Chelsea lightly here.
City have had some injury concerns lately, most notably with Kyle Walker, but it now looks like Guardiola has a fully fit squad to choose from, which perhaps gives the Spanish tactician a bit more room to rotate and keep his players fresh for this season’s run-in.
Possible Man City XI: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Dias, Gvardiol, Rodri, Kovacic; Foden, De Bruyne, Silva, Haaland
Chelsea team news
Chelsea will go into this game full of confidence after thrashing Everton 6-0 on Monday, but what kind of line up will we see from Mauricio Pochettino?
Raheem Sterling has been out with illness, and was alongside other big names like Enzo Fernandez and Robert Sanchez in missing the Everton game, while there remain numerous long-term absentees like Romeo Lavia as well.
Ben Chilwell returned against
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