Manchester City 1-0 Brighton: FA Cup semi-final – reaction live! | Soccer

Manchester City 1-0 Brighton I leave you with Danny Taylor's match report from Wembley. Thank you for your company, good evening!

This is Raheem Sterling

"Brighton played brilliantly. They caused us some gambling problems and stayed in the game, but that shows the spirit we have to go through a tough game. We have huge games ahead, but the next Tuesday is all that matters at the moment.

"[On buying 550 tickets for children at his old school] When I was growing up in Wembley, there were sometimes games and I could only watch them from the TV. It was a turning point in my life when I got a free ticket to attend the FA Cup final between Chelsea and United, and I knew there would be a lot of kids in the area that would not have many opportunities to come to Wembley, then I thought that it would be good to let them see a match here. It's good for them to live a day like today.

Peep Peep! Manchester City takes part in the FA Cup final for the first time since 2013! Gabriel Jesus' brilliant goal in the fourth minute decided an uneventful semi-final in which City was not at his best. Brighton played beautifully without a ball but could not put a glove on City. It could have been different if Kyle Walker had been kicked out in the first period. It was not and City rarely felt like losing their lead.

90 + 2 min Knockaert's free kick is about to escape and City destroys the right by Jesus. He has a good pass on defense at Sterling, whose excellent left-footed save is well saved by Ryan.

90 + 1 min Fernandinho commits a stupid foul on Duffy, 25 meters from goal. This is Brighton's chance …

88 min Brighton is running out of time. In the jargon of our time, they have been proud today, but they simply have not been able to create clear opportunities.

87 min Danilo, a scorer of remarkable goals, shoots a powerful shot just above the 25-meter mark.

86 min Izquierdo fashioned a nice 20-yard curler towards the goal and Ederson flew over his line to make a comfortable stop. This is only the fifth shot of the match.

85 min Duffy is crushed in the D outside the city. Anthony Taylor continues to play.

84 min Knockaert makes a brilliant 40-meter run to his own goal to steal the ball and launch a Brighton attack. Knockaert played beautifully all day.

83 min "Hi Rob," says David Hopkins. "My dad would not forgive me if I did not let Alan Hinton get into the best riff of the crossers. Apparently, he could drop it anywhere at will. There's a goal against the Spurs, I think, where Willie Carlin scores a header from a Hinton center while being scored by two defenders from a foot taller than him. "

82 min Brighton makes his third change, Jurgen Locadia replacing the impressive Bissouma.

81 min The admirable Tigger-ish Knockaert wins a corner for Brighton. He is directed by Stones.

79 min Another change for City: John Stones replaces Benjamin Mendy, who had a beautiful appearance and some reminders of his exceptional ability to cross.

79 min Brighton are hanging now. Jesus plays a square pass to Sterling, who makes a 20-meter low shot that is bravely blocked by the Dunk slide.

77 min The beautiful cross of Mendy is directed towards the corner by Dunk which stretches. Gundogan will take it …

76 min This is a good example of City's effective cynicism. Andone, inside his own half, went back inside Mendy, who pulled his shirt to stop playing. Free kick, no yellow card and City can regroup.

74 min City controls the game since the arrival of Fernandinho. He is a remarkable genius, the cynical genius of English football.

70 min A second goal of the city is in the post. They have improved significantly and Brighton is struggling to win the ball. Laporte returns generously to them with a long-range wild shot. It also allows Brighton to make another change, with Jose Izquierdo replacing Jahanbakhsh.

69 min "Hi again Rob," Geoff Wignall said. "Just to clarify the numbers I've given for the Beckham centers, I've been generous enough to consider everything that a teammate could, realistically, challenge for having managed to find a teammate.This obviously exaggerates the implied success rate.What ever, John Robertson (before your time?) and Dennis Wise were in my mind better.Sage? Oh yes.Remove further into the night of time, Siddons and Aston, being less religious, Donatello and Figo, it's not a very long list, but I'm more of a cricket and rugby player. "

I agree that Wise was an excellent cross-ball player, especially stopped plays, but he was nothing like Beckham. (In my opinion, etc.) In fact, no one has done it. (In my opinion, etc.)

68 min City has had better control of the game in the last few minutes, though they are still unusually slow.

67 min "I respect and admire 99% of everything about Pep," says Hubert O'Hearn. "But that 1% is the same rage I had at Mourinho for clearly managing his players to cut off the ankles of any opposition player who made a decent run." If Southampton had had a policy Similar yesterday, instead of a memorable goal of 60 km (running and shooting), Mo Salah would have been scraped into a bag.Go Brighton, hope that justice will be done!

I think you have the wrong note, Hubert.

66 min Brighton makes his first change with Florin Andone in place of Glenn Murray.

65 min City makes his second chance with Fernandinho to replace Kevin de Bruyne.

64 min: Good save Ryan! Sterling shot a goal-scoring curling shot to 20 yards from the goal, and he'd be tucked into the bottom corner without that annoying Ryan, who flew to his right to push him away.

62 min Chris Hughton will begin to examine his options on the bench, especially Locadia and Andone. Brighton played beautifully – but only in the top two-thirds of the field.

61 min Gundogan hangs a good shot from the left foot at the goal of 20 meters which is comfortably held by Ryan.

60 min "Setting a salary cap is much easier within national limits, but football, unlike American sportsballs, is an international game," said Phil Podolsky. "Besides, the real problem is obviously capitalism. To sign a less important note, I would like the BBC to simply let Yaya Toure speak French. He's a smart guy, but you would not know he played in England for more than five years after stabbing the capitulation. "

58 min The city calms things with a long period of possession. Sterling and Bernardo changed wing, by the way.

56 min "Manchester City has finished half with 2/3 of possession and twice as many faults as his opponent," said Steve Forstneger. "It's a trend all season long. Against Fulham, they had possession of two-thirds and committed three times more faults. Despite its supposed beauty, it's a cynical style of play. "

Then you will tell me that Barcelona is not more than a club.

54 min: so close to a Brighton equalizer! Knockaert won in the corner of Emerson, who had missed his punching attempt. Duffy led the ball into the penalty area, and Murray was about to score when Laporte seemed to slice the ball over his crossbar.

53 min Brighton dominates the ball for the moment, and Propper put the stick to the right to win a corner.

53 min "Rob," says Duncan Edwards. "I have the feeling that Beckham was revolutionary to the extent that he got rid of the idea that a winger must win, beat his man and go to the sideline before delivering centers. All he needed was a meter of space to wreak havoc with precision. The two goals he has set for Dwight Yorke against Inter are classic examples. In each case, Beckham delivered the balls for the first time on a plate, asking only to be engulfed. Eat Simeone shit!

There was another absurd center for Andy Cole in the same game.

52 min Knockaert's free kick is pushed back by De Bruyne.

51 min Danilo is booked for a foul on Jahanbakhsh, although it sounds like a dive. Brighton has a free kick on the left wing, 25 meters from goal …

51 min "A supporter of Brighton here, but I'm glad Walker is always on," writes

Francis Lee
Paul Thompson. "Yes, strictly according to the rules, he should be absent, but this clash did not hurt and Jahanbakhsh had just pushed him. Keep 22 players on the field if possible, that's what I want. Anyway, Brighton does not need the extra man … we almost managed a framed shot, you know?

50 min The cities are far from better. Brighton has a chance in this match – not a huge chance, not even a small one, but a bigger one than they had after four minutes.

49 min "Why?" Says Chris Tavernos. "So, a blatant dive is described as clever by Danny Mills, but a tampon and a shake of the head of the handbags is a red stone?"

File under Modern Football.

48 min Knockaert, who was Brighton's strongest striker, made a good run in the field before being quickly dispossessed by Laporte.

47 min "Beckham's crossing seemed better than it was because there were always three, and often four men in the scoring area to get to the end of a ball in the" right areas, "" says Gary Naylor. "Extraordinary, how that side has brought so many men forward. The best crosser I've ever seen is Dave Thomas from QPR and, later, Everton. He played high passes. "

I know what you mean about Beckham and United, but …

46 min Peep Peep! City begins the second half. Danilo replaced Kyle Walker at halftime.

"Ah yes," said Matt Dony. "Good point, come on, Brighton, I was behind you all the way …"

Peep Peep! It's the end of a half a bit strange. When Gabriel Jesus scored in the fourth minute from a devastating Kevin de Bruyne center, it seemed like Brighton would be overwhelmed. But they played admirably afterwards and were City equals for the rest of a half largely unchanged. Even if they are a low goal, they could be a tall man: Kyle Walker probably should have been kicked out for dragging his head on Alireza Jahanbakhsh's face.

You'd expect City to do the work in the second half, especially after Pep gave them the special hair dryer, but Brighton still has hope, and that's all we asked for.

44 min The corner from De Bruyne on the right is perfectly suited to Gundogan, who hits his attempt to cross the ground and fails to get in safety.

42 min "Although we all love an underdog story and the romance of the Cup, I'm totally behind City," said Matt Dony, who, rumored, could have a place for the Liverpool Football Club in his heart. "The more games there are, the better.

Do you realize that the final of the cup will be played after the end of the season?

40 min The long shot by Bernardo Silva is rejected by Lewis Dunk. "He loves it, is not it?" Said Martin Keown, recognizing his kinship spirit. In fact, the replicas show that he cleaned it with his shoulder, not his head, but the essential is clear: when it comes to defending, Dunk lover really.

35 min "Hi Rob," says Geoff Wignall. "I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, no." Beckham's top centers may have been some of the best of all time, but qualifying him as the best cross-breeder is to dismiss all attempts that have not beaten. The first defender, being sad, I have already counted five games, 40% have been hit or have been recovered by the first defender, more than 60% have not managed to find a teammate. decor.

These percentages are low for failed centers, is not it? In any case, it's the best crosser I've ever seen, which is not quite the same as saying it's the best ever.

34 min The more you see Walker's incident, the more it becomes clear that he should have been deported. Do not get me wrong, in a sane world, it would never be a red card, but the law is the law. Another triumph for VAR.

33 min Examination of the VAR revealed that Walker was innocent. One could say that he is lucky because he has slipped his head against Jahanbakhsh's face and in the modern game that could be interpreted as violent behavior. As Martin Keown said on the BBC, Jahanbakhsh did Walker a favor by not falling and turning around as if he had been mutilated.

32 min Both players are reserved, but The VAR is looking for a red card, probably against Walker.