Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup final – live
The FA Cup final features Chelsea facing Manchester City for the first time in this prestigious match. Both clubs have a rich history in the competition, with City coming off a recent FA Cup victory and Chelsea seeking to end a domestic trophy drought. The match is set to kick off at 3pm BST, with City favored to win under Pep Guardiola.
- ▪Chelsea and Manchester City have never met in an FA Cup final before.
- ▪City won the FA Cup in 2023 and are looking for a second domestic treble.
- ▪Chelsea has not won a domestic trophy since their 2018 FA Cup victory.
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9m ago08.00 EDTPreambleAnd now for something completely different: an FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester City. These two great clubs have met in a Champions League final, a League Cup final and a classic Full Members Cup final, but never, until today, on the FA Cup’s big day.It’s a surprising stat given the size of the two clubs and their recent FA Cup record. Since the turn of the century – what did happen to that Millennium Bug – Chelsea and City have been involved in 17 of the 26 FA Cup finals.In recent years, it’s been harder to deal with Kipling’s impostors. Chelsea were runners-up in three consecutive seasons from 2020-22, an unwelcome record that they hope to share by sundown.
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