When Man City vs West Ham might take place after Premier League match postponed due to FA Cup ties
Manchester City beating Bristol City to advance to the FA Cup quarter-finals throws up another fixture rescheduling headache for the Premier League in the final months of this season.
Pep Guardiola's side will welcome Vincent Kompany and Burnley back to the east side of the city in the FA Cup last eight, with the runaway Championship leaders having already faced Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Carabao Cup earlier this year. The quarter-final ties will take place across the weekend of 18 March, which was when City were due to host another team who play in claret and blue, West Ham United.
That Premier League match has now had to be postponed as a result, which raises the question of when it will instead be played with City still competing across all three competitions. The Manchester Evening News has dusted off the calendar so that you don't have to and worked out when the game in hand could be rescheduled.
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City's next free midweek is after this weekend's match against Newcastle United, as Guardiola and company have a full week off before travelling to Crystal Palace for their next game. The same can't be said for their opponents West Ham, though, as they remain in the Europa Conference League and play the first leg of their round of 16 tie versus AEK Larnaca in Cyprus next Thursday.
Therefore, the match cannot be played before the final international break of the season, which takes place at the end of this month. City again are set to have a full week between matches with Liverpool and Southampton immediately after the club football returns, but David Moyes' side are already scheduled to play a league game against
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