FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Manchester City
8 - 0 Full time
Salford City

Etihad Stadium · Manchester

Lineups

Manchester City3-4-2-1
E31Ederson
NO75⚽O'Reilly
JS66Simpson-Pusey
NA6↓46'Aké
MN27Nunes
JG10⚽Grealish
JM87⚽×3McAtee
IG19Gündogan
S26↓55'Savinho
JD11⚽×2↓74'Doku
DM67⚽Mubama
MY13Young
LS32Shephard
CT16Tilt
LG29Garbutt
TF6Fornah
HM19↓58'Mnoga
ML8↓70'Lund
OA4↓58'Ashley
KB3Berkoe
HA31↓87'Adelakun
KK27↓70'Kouassi
Salford City3-1-4-2

Manchester City substitutes

25 Manuel Akanji 6.8 ↑46'
47 Phil Foden 7.1 ↑55'
8 Mateo Kovacic 6.3 ↑74'
18 Stefan Ortega
24 Josko Gvardiol
82 Rico Lewis
20 Bernardo Silva
17 Kevin De Bruyne
9 Erling Haaland

Coach: Pep Guardiola · Unavailable: Marcus Bettinelli (injury), Rodri (injury)

Salford City substitutes

11 Jon Taylor 6.0 ↑58'
7 Ryan Watson 6.2 ↑58'
18 Conor McAleny 6.2 ↑70'
9 Cole Stockton 6.1 ↑70'
44 Will Wright ↑87'
1 Jamie Jones
17 James Chester
42 Marshall Heys
23 Kyrell Malcolm

Coach: Karl Robinson

Match events

8'Jérémy Doku assist: Jack Grealish 1 - 0⚽
20'Divin Mubama assist: Matheus Nunes 2 - 0⚽
21'Liam Shephard
43'Nico O'Reilly assist: Jérémy Doku 3 - 0⚽
Second half
46'↑ Manuel Akanji ↓ Nathan Aké⇄
49'Jack Grealish (penalty) 4 - 0⚽
55'↑ Phil Foden ↓ Savinho⇄
58'↑ Jon Taylor ↓ Haji Mnoga⇄
58'↑ Ryan Watson ↓ Ossama Ashley⇄
60'Curtis Tilt
62'James McAtee assist: Jérémy Doku 5 - 0⚽
69'Jérémy Doku (penalty) 6 - 0⚽
70'↑ Cole Stockton ↓ Matthew Lund⇄
70'↑ Conor McAleny ↓ Kylian Kouassi⇄
72'James McAtee assist: Phil Foden 7 - 0⚽
74'↑ Mateo Kovacic ↓ Jérémy Doku⇄
81'James McAtee assist: Jack Grealish 8 - 0⚽
87'↑ Will Wright ↓ Hakeeb Adelakun⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 11 January 2025, 17:45 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

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