Swansea City v Manchester City: FA Cup quarter-final – live!

Half-time entertainment. This quarter-final has been very entertaining so far. Will it join the pantheon? Only time will tell. But how about this classic Joy of Six on that very subject? Here’s Bobbie!

Nothing much happens in the added-on time. That’s the half-time whistle. As the players troop off, a rattled Laporte gets himself in a silly tangle with Routledge and is booked for his trouble. And no wonder the visitors are losing their heads! Swansea City weathered an early storm, then hit them with a quick one-two. The second goal, a passing move from back to front, was a thing of Rodgers-era beauty. A Swansea win was 20-1 against! Well, it’s on, unless Manchester City can sort themselves out in the second half. What a 45 minutes we have coming up!

45 min: Laporte takes a speculative shot from 25 yards, but it’s easily blocked. There will be two added minutes.

44 min: Gundogan tries to release Sane down the left, but his pass is too heavy and Nordfeldt can come out and smother.

43 min: Grimes whips a high free kick towards the far post. Carter-Vickers climbs highest, but can only send a weak header wide left. That was a good chance to turn an unlikely scoreline into a positively trippy one.

42 min: Routledge spins Laporte out on the right, and is hauled down for his trouble. It should be a yellow card, but the referee only dishes out a lecture. But it is a free kick, and a chance for Swansea to cause more bother in the box.

40 min: Mahrez shapes to shoot on the edge of the Swansea box. But he has the ball nicked off him, and suddenly James is romping up the left. He cuts inside and looks for Routledge through the middle, but the pass isn’t so good this time. Once again, though, Manchester City looked a bit tatty at the back. They’re there to be got at, if you’re adventurous enough. Some Premier League teams should give it a go sometime.

39 min: Sane rolls a pass down the left to release David Silva into the area. Silva crosses; the ball comes back off Roberts and out off the Manchester City man for a goal kick. Nothing’s working for them, all of a sudden. What a start they had to this game, as well.

37 min: A quick Jesus throw down the right frees Bernardo Silva into acres of space. Swansea were sleeping a little bit. Bernardo loops a cross into the area for Sane, but it’s uncharacteristically inaccurate. Swansea clear.

35 min: Might this simply not be Manchester City’s day? Bernardo Silva skins Grimes down the right. His low cross finds David Silva six yards out. He must score, but Roberts sticks a leg out to block his shot on the line. The ball then pinballs off Nordfeldt and somehow spins round the right-hand post instead of going in. The resulting corner leads to nothing.

34 min: Manchester City win a corner out on the left. It’s a total non-event. A few quadruple-hunting faces betray a little frustration.

33 min: The goalscorer Celina appears to have gone over his ankle at some point. He’s down getting a little treatment. He doesn’t want to go off, and insists on trying to run it off.

32 min: Nordfeldt can do no wrong at the moment. Bernardo Silva takes a shot from the edge of the box. It’s straight at the keeper, but fiercely hit, and it still needs stopping. Nordfeldt hooks the ball away from danger.

Manchester City are beaten at their own game! Swansea play from the back, Nordfeldt slipping a pass out from his own area. The ball’s soon with James, out on the left. James drifts inside, then shifts the ball to Routledge, in the middle 30 yards out. Routledge plays a first-time ball back to Celina down the inside-left channel. Celina – who missed in farcical scenes from the spot four days ago at West Brom – opens his body and sends a delightful first-time effort into the top right! Ederson had no chance!

27 min: Manchester City knock it around the back, teasing Swansea forward. Then they suddenly spring forward. Jesus scampers into the Swansea box from the left, but can’t find anyone in purple with his cross. A suggestion that the ball might have flicked a Swansea hand there, but nothing’s awarded.

25 min: It’s tipping down in Swansea. On the touchline, Pep is too busy frowning and looking enigmatic to put his hood up. His side have lost a little of that early momentum since falling behind. The hosts looking much more confident.

23 min: Grimes nearly goes from hero to zero in 180 seconds. His dreadful clearance up the Swansea left is intercepted by Mahrez, who feeds Jesus. The Manchester City striker rolls a pass across the face of goal from the right, but it just evades Sane, who was hoping to tap in from a couple of yards. Grimes wipes his brow.

22 min: That’s got the home crowd going, and City look a little shaken about what’s happened to them. Sane is caught offside, over-eager in his attempt to chase a David Silva pass down the left.

Grimes wastes no time. He pops the ball on the spot and lashes it into the top left! Swansea, on the ropes pretty much since the get-go, lead the champions of England!

20 min: And here’s another example! Delph stands off Roberts, out on the right touchline. Roberts is able to bring a long pass down, cut inside, and Delph panics, sticking out a leg and tripping his man from behind as he enters the box! A no-brainer, in more ways than one.

18 min: Some good first-time flicking by Roberts, Celina and Routledge nearly opens Manchester City up down the right. Routledge’s control, as he enters the box, lets him and Swansea down. But once again Swansea have proved that, for all the visitors’ dominance, they sometimes let their concentration slip at the back.

17 min: Sane should be OK to continue. Sterling had been warming up, just in case, but he’s back in the dugout now. On the pitch, Manchester City continue to dominate, Jesus nearly finding his way through the middle. Not quite.

15 min: Sane is holding his hip, looking a little pained. The Manchester City bench are keeping an eye on him. He’s still fit enough to get a cross-cum-shot in from the left, though this one doesn’t seriously trouble Swansea.

13 min: Sane scampers down the left and loops a cross towards the far post, where Bernardo Silva crashes a shot goalwards from eight yards. Nordfeldt parries brilliantly. The keeper has already earned his corn this evening, and we’re less than a quarter-hour in.

12 min: Manchester City bomb upfield with Swansea light at the back. Sane feeds Mahrez who slips a pass down the inside-right channel for Walker, bursting into the box. But just as Walker’s preparing to shoot, James comes across and eases him out of the road, allowing Nordfeldt to gather. That’s sensational tracking back.

10 min: Swansea suddenly show their quality! Celina strokes a pass down the left for James, who scuttles inside and lays off to Celina, who tries to sashay his way through the middle. Not quite, and the ball breaks through to Ederson, who clears. Celina made the wrong decision there; he had Roberts in acres of space to his right. Had he made that pass, Roberts would have been one on one with the keeper. That’ll give Swansea heart after a very shaky start.

8 min: This is a very worrying start by Swansea. Sane should be in down the left, but he overruns it and has to settle for a corner off Roberts. That comes to nothing, but Mahrez is soon probing down the right, and his cross to the far post clips off James and out for yet another corner … though they’re not awarded that one, the ref missing the deflection.

6 min: There’s a massive gap between Swansea’s back four and the rest of the team. Jesus romps through it, then slips a pass to Sane, who enters the box in trademark silky style and batters a shot towards the bottom left. Nordfeldt saves well at his near post, though the ball loops to Mahrez, whose rushed header floats inches wide of the left-hand post. Had it been on target, Nordfeldt, back up on his feet, was not getting there.

4 min: … nothing much. Swansea are getting their defensive headers in, if nothing else, van der Hoorn standing tall.

3 min: Manchester City stroke it around for fun. Swansea have barely had a touch yet. Bernardo Silva slides a pass down the right for Walker, who earns Manchester City’s second corner of the evening. That leads to …

1 min: … Swansea half clear. Walker plays the ball back into the mixer from the right, and David Silva is caught offside on the penalty spot.

And we’re off! Manchester City get the ball rolling and launch it long. They’re soon probing down the left, and after 25 seconds Sane enters the box and wins the first corner of the match. From which …

The teams are out! A cracking atmosphere at the Liberty Stadium. Swansea City are kitted out in their all-white kit, while Manchester City wear third-choice purple and orange. Freed From Desire by Gala blasts out of the PA. We’ll be off in a minute!

And then it’s Pep Guardiola’s turn! “All the players in the squad have quality, and so we always try to do the best line-up to win the game. Swansea are a club with experience in the Premier League. They lost their last games against Norwich and West Brom but they played very good, so the results don’t define what happened. And in the FA Cup, one game away, anything can happen and we know how tough it will be after weeks of playing many games in many competitions. We expend a lot of energy in a lot of games, so today we will see if we have some more to qualify for Wembley for the semi-finals. Then we rest a little bit during the international break. We need everybody.”

Swansea boss Graham Potter speaks to BT Sport. “This is an opportunity for us to play against the best, a great test, a learning opportunity. Then you just hope we can have a piece of magic and pull off a miracle. They’re a fantastic top team, but that’s what we’re going to try to do. We have to try to be us, of course you have to adapt, but there’s no point not being yourself. It’s a game our players should enjoy. Nobody’s expecting us to win, but we’ll try our best. ”

Swansea make just the one change to the team that went down 3-0 at the Hawthorns during the week. Jay Fulton comes in for Kyle Naughton.

Manchester City give Swansea maximum respect by fielding a very strong team. I suppose their squad is packed with so much quality it’d be pretty hard to do anything else, but the point stands. Four changes from the side that humiliated Schalke on Wednesday night: Danilo, Alexander Zinchenko, Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguer make way for Nicolas Otamendi, Fabian Delph, Riyad Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus.

Swansea City: Nordfeldt, Roberts, van der Hoorn, Carter-Vickers, Grimes, Fulton, Byers, Celina, Dyer, James, Routledge.
Subs: Asoro, McKay, John, Mulder, Dhanda, Baker-Richardson, Harries.

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Delph, Bernardo Silva, Gundogan, Silva, Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Sane.
Subs: Danilo, Sterling, Aguero, Zinchenko, Foden, Muric, Garcia.

Referee: Andre Marriner (West Midlands).

This is the first time Swansea City and Manchester City have met in the FA Cup. But that’s about as good as the stats get for the Swans. Manchester City have won ten of their last 11 matches against Swansea. Last season they won their two Premier League encounters 4-0 and 5-0. On Wednesday, Manchester City beat Schalke 7-0, Leroy Sane delivering a masterclass; Swansea’s midweek effort was a 3-0 loss at West Brom, during which Bersant Celina filed a contender for worst penalty of all time.

Then again, there’s always hope. Swansea haven’t been beaten at home since Boxing Day. Manchester City are unlikely to be playing their full-strength team. Pep Guardiola’s side were knocked out of the cup at third-tier Wigan Athletic last season. And they let in a goal at Newport County earlier in this cup run.

Plus, in the FA Cup, you just never know. So could Graham Potter’s mid-table Championship side put paid to Manchester City’s quadruple dream? Or will the reigning English champions take another step towards an unprecedented achievement? It should be fun finding out. It’s on!

Kick off: 5.20pm GMT.