Chelsea vs. Man City: Erling Haaland out to break bonkers goalscoring curse in FA Cup final

Erling Haaland volition look to extremity an astonishing goalscoring curse erstwhile Manchester City bash conflict with Chelsea successful the FA Cup last astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday.

The Norwegian has established himself arsenic 1 of the astir prolific strikers successful satellite shot since joining the Citizens successful 2022 and ranks 2nd connected the club’s all-time scoring database with 161 goals successful 196 games – lone down Sergio Aguero (260).

Haaland is, erstwhile again, Man City’s apical scorer this play with 37 goals successful 50 appearances crossed each competitions, including a Premier League-high 26 goals and different 3 successful arsenic galore FA Cup outings.

In fact, Haaland has scored a full of 12 goals successful 13 FA Cup appearances for Man City, with 11 of those goals coming arsenic portion of hat-trick, including 3 strikes successful a thumping 4-0 quarter-final triumph implicit Liverpool.

However, the 25-year-old has struggled to marque his beingness felt successful large cupful semi-finals and finals for Man City, failing to people successful immoderate of his erstwhile 15 crossed 5 antithetic competitions.

Haaland has played successful 9 finals, 3 successful the FA Cup, 3 successful the Community Shield, arsenic good arsenic 1 each successful the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and EFL Cup, but helium has had 15 shots without occurrence successful immoderate of those games.

Chelsea vs. Man City: Will Haaland extremity Wembley scoring hoodoo successful FA Cup final?

In addition, Wembley is the lone stadium that Haaland has played astatine much than doubly for Man City without scoring, with 11 shots crossed 601 minutes successful 8 matches resulting successful zero goals.

Haaland’s past extremity successful immoderate large cupful last was for erstwhile nine Borussia Dortmund erstwhile helium netted doubly against RB Leipzig successful the DFB-Pokal showpiece successful May 2021.

Against Saturday’s opponents Chelsea, meanwhile, Haaland has ne'er mislaid successful 8 games (W5 D3), each successful the Premier League, and has recovered the nett connected 4 occasions.

Man City’s starring marksman scored doubly successful a thrilling 4-4 gully astatine Stamford Bridge successful November 2023 earlier netting location and distant successful victories during the 2024-25 campaign.

However, Haaland was incapable to people against the West Londoners successful the Premier League this season, with City drafting 1-1 astatine the Etihad Stadium successful January earlier easing to a 3-0 triumph successful the superior past month.

Pep Guardiola is expected to callback Haaland to his starting lineup aft helium watched connected arsenic an unused substitute successful Man City’s 3-0 top-flight win implicit Crystal Palace connected Wednesday.

The Citizens volition endeavour to triumph an eighth FA Cup this play arsenic good arsenic avoid an unwanted grounds held by Chelsea erstwhile they fastener horns nether the celebrated Wembley arch.