Can Pep Guardiola’s side make it a domestic cup double? We look ahead to Saturday’s FA Cup final with our Chelsea vs Man City prediction and preview.
Chelsea vs Man City: The Key Stats
Manchester City won after 90 minutes in a convincing 57.6% of pre-match simulations by the Opta supercomputer. Chelsea’s 13-game winless run against Man City is their longest against an opponent since going 17 without a victory against Arsenal between January 1999 and March 2004. Man City are the first team ever to play in four consecutive FA Cup finals, but they have lost the last two.Manchester City will turn their attention away from the Premier League title race when they aim for a second major domestic cup double in Saturday’s FA Cup final against Chelsea.
Having already overcome Arsenal in the EFL Cup final, City could make it the sixth instance of a team winning both major English cup competitions, after Arsenal in 1992-93, Liverpool in 2000-01 and 2021-22, Chelsea in 2006-07 and the Citizens themselves in 2018-19.
Pep Guardiola’s side will be the first team to play in four consecutive FA Cup finals, but they have lost the last two – against Manchester United and Crystal Palace – after beating the Red Devils in 2023. Coincidentally, Chelsea are the only side to have ever lost the final in this competition in three consecutive campaigns, doing so between 2020 and 2022.
The Blues are no strangers to this stage either – this will be Chelsea’s 17th FA Cup final, the third most after Man Utd (22) and Arsenal (21). They have won eight and lost eight of their such appearances.
But Chelsea have not enjoyed playing finals at Wembley recently. They have failed to score in each of their last four finals at the national stadium since a fifth-minute Christian Pulisic goal against Arsenal in the 2020 FA Cup showpiece, which they still lost 2-1.
The pair do seem to have an appetite for this competition. Since the 2016-17 season, the two teams to win the most games in the FA Cup are Man City (45) and Chelsea (37).
They have also scored the most goals (City 159, Chelsea 111) and kept the most clean sheets (City 28, Chelsea 26) in that time, though Calum McFarlane may feel his side are slightly undercooked against higher-quality opposition in this season’s edition.
Four of Chelsea’s five wins in this campaign have been against sides from below the Premier League, with the other coming against Leeds United in the semi-final. They have not beaten two top-flight sides in the competition in a single season since 2020-21, one of which was Man City in the semi-final after overcoming Sheffield United in the last eight.
City, by contrast, will fancy their chances. They have won 21 of their last 23 matches in the FA Cup, with their only defeats in that period coming in the last two finals.
Central to any Blues hope may be Jérémy Doku (3 goals, 5 assists) across the last two seasons, while the Belgian’s five assists and 40 dribbles are the most of any Premier League player in that time.
Doku may have to pick up more of the attacking burden as well, given
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