Chelsea 0-1 Man City: Pep Guardiola’s side break all-time English football record with FA Cup victory

Manchester City person breached an all-time English shot grounds aft edging past Chelsea with a 1-0 win successful the FA Cup last astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday afternoon.

The Citizens travelled to the superior seeking to debar losing a 3rd successive FA Cup showpiece aft suffering decision to rivals Manchester United and Crystal Palace successful the past 2 years.

Pep Guardiola’s broadside became EFL Cup champions successful March aft beating Arsenal 2-0 successful the final, and they were made to enactment for their FA Cup triumph against a spirited and well-organised Chelsea outfit.

The 145th FA Cup showpiece volition not spell down arsenic 1 of the astir memorable oregon classical editions, but Man City recovered a mode to prevail and had Antoine Semenyo to convey for scoring a stunning backheel successful the 72nd minute.

The Citizens person beaten Exeter City, Salford City, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Southampton and present Chelsea to get their hands connected the prestigious trophy for the eighth clip successful history, drafting them level with the Blues, Liverpool and Tottenham successful joint-third connected the all-time winners list.

Man City besides won each crippled en way to EFL Cup glory and person present go the archetypal squad successful past to triumph each azygous lucifer crossed some the FA Cup (6/6) and EFL Cup (6/6) successful a azygous season.

“City again ole, ole!”

Man City person present won a staggering 20 trophies nether Guardiola since his accomplishment astatine the nine 10 years ago, with Catalan celebrating his 3rd FA Cup victory.

Widely regarded arsenic 1 of, if not the, top manager of the modern era, Guardiola has go the archetypal ever manager to triumph astatine slightest 3 titles successful the English apical flight, the European Cup/Champions League (three), English FA Cups (three) and English League Cups (five).

Sharing his thoughts connected Guardiola, match-winner Semenyo told TNT Sports: "He's a huffy man! We each emotion him, he's truthful passionate, you tin spot it, helium wants to triumph trophies!

“What he's done for the nine is amazing, and I'm truthful grateful to beryllium here, truthful grateful that helium gets to manager maine and marque maine a amended player. He's conscionable a apical man!"

Reflecting connected the crippled and his extremity successful a post-match interrogation with BBC Sport, Semenyo added: "Everything happened truthful accelerated to beryllium honest. It came consecutive to maine and I had to improvise myself arsenic rapidly arsenic I can.

"I person ne'er competed for trophies similar this before, truthful everything is caller to me. Hopefully, we tin decorativeness the occupation off.

"It is simply a bully finish, I can't lie. As a kid I person ever wanted to beryllium playing for the apical teams - it took a agelong clip to get there, but I americium grateful.

"The archetypal happening helium [Guardiola] said to maine erstwhile I came was 'don't alteration your game'. He knows we power the crippled a lot, helium inactive wants maine to beryllium me, inactive make a spot of chaos. I don't deliberation determination volition beryllium overmuch celebrations contiguous it is getting acceptable for Tuesday (against Bournemouth)."

Bernardo Silva: ‘Hopefully the FA Cup is not the past trophy’

Man City skipper Bernardo Silva, who volition permission the nine astatine the extremity of the season, is inactive clinging connected anticipation of winning the Premier League rubric and completing a home treble.

“[Winning the FA Cup is] special,” helium told BBC Sport. “I americium truly happy. Everything astir my travel present astatine Man City was fantastic. Hopefully we tin inactive person a tiny imagination that we tin combat for the Premier League.

"Today we are precise happy. It is conscionable peculiar for me, being my past play to springiness them different trophy. Hopefully, not the past one.

"Since I arrived it has been 20 [trophies], truthful it is not bad. That was a fantastic goal. In a last determination are nary favourites. The opening of the 2nd half, they started truly strong. They were putting america nether changeless unit and it wasn't easy."

On Guardiola and his power astatine Man City, Bernardo added: "He changed the mode I spot football. 80 per cent of my vocation was with him arsenic my manager. All the things I hoped to execute were with him. The narration we person got is precise beardown with the frustrations and the achievements.

“I attraction a batch astir Man City. That's his determination [on whether helium wants to leave]. It is not for maine to remark connected that. I privation each the best. I bask being with him having shared each these moments together."

Man City volition present displacement their attraction to Tuesday’s important Premier League clash against Bournemouth astatine the Vitality Stadium; they could caput into that fixture 5 points down leaders Arsenal if they bushed Burnley connected Monday.