Swansea 1-3 Man City: Jesus, Sterling & co send City into FA Cup quarter-finals

Manchester City rewrote English football's record books as a comfortable 3-1 victory at Swansea City sent them into the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Match Report

Kyle Walker, Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus were on target as Pep Guardiola's team won a 15th game in a row in all competitions, with Swansea pulling one back late on through debutant Morgan Whittaker.

This triumph means Manchester City have set a new record for successive domestic wins by an English top-flight club, surpassing the previous best of 14 achieved by the Preston team of 1891-92 and the 1987-88 Arsenal side.

Having eased to their latest victory, Guardiola's men remain in contention for a quadruple while Swansea, who are third in the Championship, are left to focus on their bid to join Manchester City in the Premier League next season.

This was an early taste of the size of the task they will face should they secure promotion in May - even if not every opponent will be as formidable as the current Premier League leaders.

Manchester City have not lost since November and never looked like getting beaten here, as they took charge from the outset and went ahead on the half hour as Walker's cross missed everyone in a crowded penalty area and rolled into the net.

If the goal was a little soft, it was no more than the visitors deserved given their control.

A Swansea revival looked unlikely, and any slim home hopes were quickly extinguished in the second half.

First Sterling found time and space to roll a shot low into the bottom corner of the net, then Jesus turned and steered home from close range.

Swansea's application was rewarded late on when Whittaker, who had only been on the pitch 12 minutes, finished smartly from Ryan Manning's cross.

Match Events

0' KICK-OFF! Who can win this match?

8' Rodrigo denies Swansea's cross

15' Jesus' shot hits the side-nets

16' Laporte's header wide out

22' Woodman denies Torres' shot

29' GOAL! Swansea 0-1 Man City (Walker)

36' Yellow Card! Cabango booked

44' Sterling goes down in the box but ref says no penalty!

46' GOAL! Swansea 0-2 Man City (Sterling)

49' GOAL! Swansea 0-3 Man City (Jesus)

57' Subs! Sterling & Gundogan out, Mahrez & Doyle in

67' Subs! Foden replaces Bernardo

69' Yellow Card! Dhanda booked

72' Subs! Gomes in, Rodrigo out

76' GOAL! Swansea 1-3 Man City (Whittaker)

Line-ups

Swansea XI: J.Fulton, J. Lowe, F. Woodman, R. Manning, J. Morris, M. Grimes, C. Roberts, J. Latibeaudiere, Guehi, B. Cabango, Y. Dhanda

Subs: A.Ayew, Naughton, Bennett, Hourihane, J. Bidwell, Freeman, P. Arriola, M. Whittaker, L. Webb

Man City XI: Walker, Gundogan, Sterling, Mendy, Laporte, Z. Steffen, Bernardo, Jesus, Rodri, Ferran Torres, Eric Garcia

Subs: Mahrez, Cancelo, Stones, Ederson, Zinchenko, Foden, C. Gomes, Bernabe, Doyle