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City boss Pep Guardiola described the quadruple speech as "fanciful" at the start of the week, but after qualifying for the League Cup final in the middle of the week, the English champions are in contention for a series of trophies then face Schalke in the last 16 games of the Champions League.
The loss forced Burnley to focus on his goal of survival at the top of the rankings.
Guardiola named a strong team with just four changes over the Premier League win at Huddersfield last weekend.
Gabriel Jesus continued with a good individual performance and a good performance in front of Nick Pope to open the scoring with his eighth goal in five games.
Burnley missed a great chance to equalize when Matej Vydra opened fire on Ederson and, shortly after, Bernardo Silva's deviated efforts allowed City to breathe.
Kevin de Bruyne's brilliant free kick took the score to 3-0. Another bad performance by the Belgian forced Kevin Long to turn his own net for the fourth goal, before Sergio Aguero completed the score at the penalty spot.
The Wolves eliminated Premier League leader Liverpool in the final round, but needed a 2-0 overdue recovery to avoid the day's clash in New Meadow.
Rangers Greg Docherty crushed the third-ranked club just two minutes into the second period.
Luke Waterfall gave the Shrews a two goal lead 19 minutes from the end on a corner.
Raul Jimenez needed the cushion to give the visitors a lifeline and Matt Doherty equalized the goal after three minutes of play to save the redness of Wolves.
A Ligue One team will take part in the next round after a Ben Whiteman penalty allowed Doncaster to win 2-1 over Oldham.
Watford beat his opponent in the Premier League while Javi Gracia had made 11 changes while Andre Gray and Isaac Success had scored in a 2-0 win at Newcastle.
The fairy tale of Newport County continues as the Ligue 2 team, which beat Leicester in the third round, equalized in stoppage time to win a 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough.
Frank Lampard's Derby County has qualified in the last 16 with a 1-0 win against League One Accrington Stanley thanks to Martyn Waghorn's winner 12 minutes from the end, as the two teams found each other. with 10 men.
Swansea also booked his place in Monday's draw by releasing Gillingham 4-1.
Two more draws will have to be replayed to find a winner, with Brighton and West Brom playing a 0-0 draw, while QPR's visit to Portsmouth ended with a 1-1 draw.
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