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Match report
English Footie
FA Cup: Round 3 (setup 4, season 37)
Manchester City
v.
Darlington
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
Home form:
Stefan ORTEGA1Hugo LLORIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
PEDRO Antonio PORRO Sauceda727Neco WILLIAMS
Layvin KURZAWA637Jan VERTONGHEN
Jordan VERETOUT4Fábio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO
FELIPE Augusto de Almeida Monteiro75IGOR Julio dos Santos de Paulo
Shea CHARLES66Joël MATIP
Miguel Ángel ALMIRON Rejala77Pierre LEES-MELOU
PEDRO António Pereira GONÇALVES87Matt RITCHIE
Tammy ABRAHAM697Sasa KALAJDZIC
Curtis JONES7106Mario Barwuah BALOTELLI
Danny INGS117Danny WELBECK
Manager
Demarai GRAY12Frédéric GUILBERT
Scott CARSON13Jon FLATT
Liam DELAP6146John BOSTOCK
SÉRGIO GÓMEZ Martin15Stevan JOVETIC
Benjamin MENDY16Marcus MADDISON

Manchester City 2 Darlington 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 31,514, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Scott MATHIESON 7)
15 Almiron, 64 JonesScorers48 Kalajdzic
68 Kurzawa <=> DelapSubstitutions79 Matip <=> Bostock
Sendings off
Bookings49 Williams
4Corners4
14Fouls4
9Offsides11
7Shots on7
11Shots off6
18Total shots13
5Shots saved6
46%Possession54%
Man of the match: Jordan VERETOUT
1A twenty-five yard drive from ABRAHAM caused the Darlington 'keeper little difficulty.
4VERETOUT made space on the left and touched the ball to JONES who touched the ball over.
5A cross from BALOTELLI left IGOR in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
13PEDRO GONÇALVES fired a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
15GOAL!! A one-handed save from the Darlington 'keeper enabled ALMIRON to chip the ball into the empty net. (1-0 Manchester City)
19WILLIAMS's shot was well held by ORTEGA.
20A free-kick from KURZAWA floated over.
23A shot from IGOR was smothered by the 'keeper.
32The Darlington 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from PEDRO GONÇALVES.
33INGS beat RITCHIE and fired the ball to ALMIRON who dragged his shot wide.
34A weak shot from BALOTELLI trickled agonisingly wide.
39LLORIS saved a beautiful shot from PEDRO GONÇALVES.
 
48GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from BALOTELLI shook the upright and in the ensuing meleé the ball was nodded into the net by KALAJDZIC. (1-1)
49WILLIAMS booked for a high foul on ABRAHAM.
55FELIPE ran onto a delightful ball from PEDRO GONÇALVES but pulled his effort wide of the goal.
57CHARLES headed over.
63A penalty box meleé resulted in IGOR cracking a low shot wide.
64GOAL!! A PEDRO PORRO run down the middle resulted in a nice cross for JONES to crack in. (2-1 Manchester City)
71The motionless ORTEGA was a mere bystander as a backpass from ALMIRON dropped just wide.
73INGS scuffed an easy chance.
84A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper.
88BALOTELLI floated the ball to WELBECK who flicked it over.