Man City 3-0 Birmingham: Bernardo & Foden score as City into FA Cup 4th round

Bernardo Silva scored twice and Phil Foden impressed as Manchester City comfortably avoided an FA Cup upset on Sunday.

Match Reports

Manchester City eased into the fourth round of the FA Cup thanks to a Bernardo Silva-inspired 3-0 win at home to Birmingham City on Sunday.

Pep Guardiola made the somewhat surprising decision to name what was essentially his strongest possible XI, and their superior quality was telling from the start as they quickly raced into a 2-0 lead.

Silva opened the scoring with a gorgeous volley and swiftly doubled City's advantage to cap off a fine move in the 15th minute, before Phil Foden effectively killed off any hopes of a Birmingham comeback before the interval.

City were less deadly in the second period as they failed to add to their lead, but it mattered little as they had no difficulty seeing out a comfortable victory.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

8' GOAL! Man City 1-0 Birmingham City (Bernardo)

15' GOAL! Man City 2-0 Birmingham City (Bernardo)

30' CHANCE! Jesus' shot denied

33' GOAL! Man City 3-0 Birmingham City (Foden)

36' CLOSE! Jesus' shot cleared off on goal-line

45' CLOSE! Mahrez's free-kick over the bar

61' OFFSIDE! Mahrez's goal disallowed

85' CLOSE! Bela's long shot over the bar

Line-ups

Man City XI: Walker, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Cancelo, Mendy, Z. Steffen, Ruben Dias, Bernardo, Jesus, Rodri, Foden

Subs: Fernandinho, Gundogan, Stones, Ederson, Zinchenko, Harwood-Bellis, F. Nmecha, Luke Mbete-Tabu, L. Delap

Birmingham City XI: San José, M. Kieftenbeld, G. Friend, S. Hogan, M. Colin, Iván Sánchez, Jon Toral, I. Šunjić, Prieto, J.C Salter, J. Leko

Subs: L. Jutkiewicz, A. Clayton, H. Dean, N. Etheridge, Jérémie Bela, M. Roberts, K. Pedersen, R. McGree, J. Cogley