FA Cup fourth round LIVE: Results and reaction from FA Cup ties
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Your support makes all the difference.Follow all the action from the FA Cup’s fourth round ties this afternoon.
Six fixtures get underway at 3pm, with Championship leaders Norwich City travelling to Barnsley. Brighton are hoping to avoid the same fate as West Brom when they welcome Blackpool to the Amex, with the Seasiders having produced one of the shocks of the third round.
Sheffield United are looking to keep their momentum alive after this competition brought their first win of the season against Bristol Rovers in the previous round. Meanwhile, West Ham are in flying form and won’t want to risk any negative drop when they take on Doncaster. All-Championship ties between Millwall and Bristol City and Nottingham Forest’s trip to Swansea complete the mid-afternoon ties. Follow all the action live below:
Cheltenham 0 - 0 Man City
9 mins: Alfie May is played into the left side of the box and his cross is blocked by Taylor Harwood-Bellis. The ball comes out to Chris Clements who’s fouled by Gabriel Jesus. The free kick comes into the box, it’s headed into the middle and there’s an appeal for handball that doesn’t come Cheltenham’s way and City clear the ball.
Cheltenham 0 - 0 Man City
6 mins: Phil Foden attempts to release Benjamin Mendy in behind the lines but his through pass is a touch too heavy and the ball rolls out of play before the City left-back can catch it.
Cheltenham 0 - 0 Man City
4 mins: Matty Blair gets forward on the right wing and squares the ball into the middle. Alfie May tries to get on the end of the pass but overruns it and slides into the advertising boards. That one has hurt him but he’ll continue.
Cheltenham 0 - 0 Man City
2 mins: Almost a perfect start for Man City. Mahrez flicks the ball over the top. It bounces for Gabriel Jesus to tries to tap it over the goalkeeper but Josh Griffiths gets a hand to the ball and pushes it wide.
Cheltenham 0 - 0 Man City
Kick off: Man City kick off the first ever competitive meeting between the two sides.
Cheltenham are looking to reach the FA Cup fifth round for just the second time in their history, previously doing so in the 2001/02 campaign.
Man City have reached the fifth round of the FA Cup in each of the last five campaigns, last losing at this stage of the competition against Middlesbrough in 2015.
Since losing against Wigan 0-1 in February 2018, Man City have won their last seven FA Cup games against sides from a lower division by an aggregate score of 26-4.
This will be the first ever competitive meeting between Cheltenham and Manchester City. The Robins have lost all eight of their League Cup/FA Cup meetings with Premier League opponents.
League Two’s Cheltenham sit 72 places below Manchester City in the Football League and Robins boss Michael Duff expects their opponents to have a bit of a culture shock when they arrive at Cheltenham. He said:
They'll be getting changed in a bar,
"We'll make it as hospitable as we can and the one thing they will like is the pitch. You are not going to get a Ronnie Radford scene where it's a ploughed field.
"They will be able to play on it - we won't be training on it to make it as bad as possible. We do pride ourselves on playing good football, we are not going to ruin the pitch for this one-off."
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