Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal: Nathan Ake scores decisive goal as hosts edge into FA Cup fifth round

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Manchester City won the FA Cup conflict with Premier League rubric rivals Arsenal arsenic Nathan Ake's extremity gave them a constrictive fourth-round triumph astatine Etihad Stadium.

The Gunners person established an awesome pb successful the league but it was City who shaded a choky contention acknowledgment to Ake's precise 64th-minute decorativeness aft bully enactment from Jack Grealish.

Arsenal had chances of their own, particularly successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, deputising for Ederson, saved good from Takehiro Tomiyasu and caller signing Leandro Trossard.

There was small to take betwixt the sides and their Premier League conflict volition travel into absorption erstwhile much erstwhile they conscionable astatine Emirates Stadium connected 15 February.

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Manchester City

Squad number18Player nameOrtega
Squad number25Player nameAkanji
Squad number5Player nameStones
Squad number6Player nameAké
Squad number16Player nameRodri
Squad number8Player nameGündogan
Squad number17Player nameDe Bruyne
Squad number82Player nameLewis
Squad number9Player nameHaaland
Squad number26Player nameMahrez
Squad number10Player nameGrealish

Squad number2Player nameWalker
Squad number14Player nameLaporte
Squad number19Player nameÁlvarez
Squad number20Player nameBernardo Silva

Arsenal

Squad number30Player nameTurner
Squad number18Player nameTomiyasu
Squad number16Player nameHolding
Squad number6Player nameGabriel Magalhães
Squad number3Player nameTierney
Squad number21Player nameFábio Vieira
Squad number5Player namePartey
Squad number34Player nameXhaka
Squad number7Player nameSaka
Squad number14Player nameNketiah
Squad number19Player nameTrossard

Squad number8Player nameØdegaard
Squad number11Player nameGabriel Martinelli
Squad number12Player nameSaliba
Squad number23Player nameSambi Lokonga
Squad number35Player nameZinchenko

Line-ups

Man City

Formation 3-2-4-1

18Ortega
25Akanji
5StonesSubstituted forLaporteat 45+4'minutes
6Aké
16Rodri
8GündoganBooked astatine 90mins
17De BruyneSubstituted forBernardo Silvaat 75'minutes
82LewisSubstituted forWalkerat 58'minutes
9Haaland
26MahrezSubstituted forÁlvarezat 58'minutes
10Grealish

Substitutes

2Walker
3Rúben Dias
4Phillips
7Cancelo
14Laporte
19Álvarez
20Bernardo Silva
31Ederson
80Palmer

Arsenal

Formation 4-3-3

30Turner
18Tomiyasu
16HoldingBooked astatine 42minsSubstituted forSalibaat 45'minutes
6Gabriel
3TierneySubstituted forZinchenkoat 66'minutesBooked astatine 90mins
21Fábio Vieira
5ParteySubstituted forSambi Lokongaat 45'minutes
34Xhaka
7SakaSubstituted forØdegaardat 74'minutes
14Nketiah
19TrossardSubstituted forMartinelliat 66'minutes

Substitutes

1Ramsdale
4White
8Ødegaard
11Martinelli
12Saliba
15Kiwior
23Sambi Lokonga
27Marquinhos
35Zinchenko

Live Text

Match ends, Manchester City 1, Arsenal 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Arsenal 0.
Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal).
Nathan Aké (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal).
Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) is shown the yellowish card.
Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal).
Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal).
Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal).
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Stefan Ortega.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
Attempt saved. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodri.
Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Granit Xhaka (Arsenal).
Jack Grealish (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.