'Right but wrong' Man City penalty chaos with Chelsea at Wembley

Manchester City and penalties - a marriage that will never last.

Pep Guardiola endured more shootout pain this week when Real Madrid knocked them out of the Champions League, having been on the back foot and ropes for most of the second leg of their quarter-final. That result deprived City of another trip to Wembley and the last time they were at the national stadium they were losing on penalties to Arsenal in the Community Shield.

However, as they prepare for Saturday's FA Cup semi-final with Chelsea hoping to book one more trip to the capital history is on their side - in quite extraordinary fashion. It is five years since the remarkable shootout when Chelsea's goalkeeper defied his manager against City and then lost the game.

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That it even went to penalties was a surprise to many given how the season and month had gone. City welcomed Chelsea to the Etihad in early February 2019 and won so stonkingly (6-0) that the club had to apologise for rubbing it in after the game by blaring Chelsea's anthem 'One Step Beyond' around the stadium. With 15 points between the sides in the league and the West Londoners in disarray, common consensus was that a Chelsea win would prove several steps beyond Maurizio Sarri's team.

The intervening week was even worse for the West London club, with Chelsea losing to United in the FA Cup and the fans turning their fire on the under-pressure manager. Chants of "F*** Sarriball" were not a ringing endorsement of how things were going.

And yet, normal time passed by without a goal and with three minutes of extra time remaining most attention had turned to