Sunday, 20 February 2011

FA Cup 4th Round

Five-star City crush County

Vieira strikes twice to set up Villa clash

Manchester City produced an impressive performance to overcome Notts County 5-0 at Eastlands and advance to a fifth-round FA Cup meeting with Aston Villa.
Notts County showed they could compete with City in the original tie at Meadow Lane, which finished 1-1, and they started well in the replay with Karl Hawley's wonderful curling effort hitting the inside of the post.
However, City started to take control as the first half progressed and broke the deadlock on 37 minutes when Patrick Vieira headed in at the near post from David Silva's corner.
Vieira headed in from another corner just before the hour mark to double City's advantage and the resistance from County fell away in the closing stages.
Carlos Tevez came off the substitutes' bench to score a classy third in the 84th minute and then set up Edin Dzeko to make it 4-0.
Micah Richards completed the rout in stoppage time to bring County's run in the competition to an end and keep City dreams alive.

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