Manchester: Manchester City advanced to the next round of the FA Cup with an 8-0 home win over Salford City on Saturday. The fourth-tier side, closely related to Manchester United, struggled to keep up with their Premier League neighbours.
A much-changed City side were completely dominant as Devin Mbama marked his senior debut with a goal, Jack Grealish ended a year-long goal drought with a penalty and James McAtee scored in the second half. I scored a hat trick.
Mobama doubled City’s lead with a tap-in after Jeremy Dukou had put the hosts ahead in the eighth minute, and Nico O’Reilly struck before half-time to put City out of sight.
Jack Grealish got in on the act when he earned and then converted a penalty in the 49th minute before McAtee scored three times inside 20 minutes and Duko slotted home a penalty.
Salford is jointly owned by Manchester United team-mates Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham but while they have made great strides and are pushing for promotion from League Two, they are 90 Minute soccer was given. Schools by a smart city.
“Man City and Pep have never disrespected anyone and tonight they showed us what they are and why they are what they are,” Salford boss Karl Robinson said.
His side had not scored in their last six games but City proved a formidable obstacle as Butt and Schulz watched from the director’s box and Giggs from the technical area in his role as the club’s director of football.
“I’ve said to the players that if someone had told me we’d concede eight goals in seven games I’d have taken it,” Robinson joked. “I didn’t expect it all to happen in one match.”
City manager Pep Guardiola made nine changes to the line-up that beat West Ham United last weekend but kept his big guns on the bench in case of emergency.
It never seemed to materialize after an eighth-minute counter-attack saw Matthijs Nunes pass the forward to Grealish, who in turn played into the overlapping dugout to fire a left-footed shot wide of the post. can send
Mubama made it 2-0 with a tap-in from a Nunes pass and it was game on for Salford just before the break when O’Reilly headed home a shot from Doku for his first goal for the club. Controlled.
Grealish scored his first goal since 16 December 2023 when he was hacked down in the area just after half-time and rose to convert the penalty.
The brilliant Doku set up McAtee for his first goal on the hour mark and the Belgian converted the spot-kick before converting. McAtee then put the icing on the cake with two more well taken goals.