Rodolfo Borrell insisted Manchester Metropolis take the FA Cup “very critically” after they comfortably beat League Two Swindon 4-1 to e book their place within the fourth spherical.
Bernardo Silva struck first within the 14th minute to open the scoring earlier than Gabriel Jesus capitalised on a defensive error simply earlier than the half-hour mark.
Within the second half, Metropolis managed the sport and Ilkay Gundogan added to the rating with a direct free-kick within the 59th minute as they completed with 78 p.c of possession and 22 pictures, together with eight on course.
Swindon and Manchester Metropolis gamers shake palms after the ultimate whistle (Adam Davy/PA)
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Jesus missed a penalty and Swindon’s Harry McKirdy scored a comfort objective however Metropolis added a fourth by means of spectacular teenager Cole Palmer.
“We knew we have been dealing with an enormous problem right here – all the time within the FA Cup, these form of video games, they’re all the time very difficult and when you don’t take it critically and also you don’t begin on the entrance foot you’re in bother even with the distinction when it comes to high quality,” stated assistant supervisor Borrell, main the crew after Pep Guardiola’s optimistic Covid check.
“I assumed we began very effectively on the entrance foot, and really shortly we scored a objective after which one other one. I believe within the first half we might have scored one or two objectives extra, that is the fact.
“In direction of the top of the primary half possibly we allowed a bit bit an excessive amount of of a counter-attack and the sport was very backwards and forwards, and second half I believe there have been some spells that we additionally allowed some counter-attacks, however I believe the sport was kind of determined at this stage.”
Regardless of having 21 members of their “first-team bubble” isolating because of Covid-19, together with supervisor Guardiola and 7 gamers, Metropolis named a powerful beginning XI with simply 4 modifications from the victory over Arsenal on the weekend.
“By way of fielding a powerful crew, we take very critically this competitors as all the opposite ones and to us the FA Cup means rather a lot,” Borrell added.
“It’s an awesome competitors, we’re very a lot conscious of the massive historical past that this competitors has on this nation. We all the time say that as a place to begin, sure, we’ve achieved three Premier Leagues and lots of different titles (below Guardiola), however one of many ones we’re most proud to have achieved is the FA Cup.”
Swindon supervisor Ben Garner was pleased with his facet after their efficiency towards the Premier League champions.
“We have been excellent, very disciplined, very organised and I believe we made it very laborious for them to play,” the Swindon boss stated.
“The disappointing factor was the objectives we gave up within the first half have been very avoidable and we didn’t make the suitable choices and that value us to go behind, which was irritating as a result of in the event that they play by means of and open you up with 35 passes it’s a bit bit simpler to swallow.
“I assumed second half we have been wonderful, it was nice to attain and we must always have had a penalty as effectively.
“That’s, for my part, in all probability the most effective crew in world soccer and we’ve gone toe to toe with them and we’ve bought to take the boldness from that and deal with the positives and we’ve bought to construct that into our league program now.”
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