Fourth-Round Highlights - Sunday The FA Cup

They have booked their place in the

fifth round.

No banana skin for this

team.

Plenty of FA Cup dreams still alive

and today brought the final two

matches of fourth round.

In South Wales, Championship side

Cardiff City were hoping to spring

a huge upset when they took

on Pep Guardiola's Manchester City -

who already have a Wembley date

booked in the EFL Cup final.

And in West London,

it was an all Premier League affair

as Chelsea took on Newcastle,

managed by former Blues

boss Rafa Benitez.

We'll bring you highlights

from Stamford Bridge a little later,

but let's start with the action

here at the Cardiff City Stadium,

where your commentators

were Mark Lawrenson and Guy Mowbray.

Cardiff have Neil Etheridge in goal

as per usual. Injury for the

experienced Sol Bamba made a switch

to a back four and there is width

from Junior Hoilett and Nathaniel

Mendez-Laing supporting Denmark's

Kenneth Zohore. The Premier League

leaders have Claudio Bravo, the

domestic cup keep it this season,

Vincent Kompany in the latest of his

many comebacks. And in front of

Fernandinho it is five who will all

go forward. They have 44 goals

between them this season. Throughout

this Cardiff team, you look at the

names on the squad list from no

disrespect, they are third in the

Championship and you realise what a

job Neil Warnock is doing.

He seems

to like ugly ducklings.

Nicely

collected by Gundogan. Smartly saved

by Neil Etheridge. Gundogan again.

Down under the challenge of Joe

Ralls and it will be a Manchester

City free kick on the edge of the

box.

It was a poor tackle. He kicked

the Cardiff player's foot as much as

anything.

When a player has had a

serious injury like those suffered

by Gundogan, it is no surprise that

he takes things very carefully.

What

a fantastic position this is.

And

what a fantastic player to have

available in Kevin De Bruyne. A few

bodies to get it through and he has

done! How clever was that! Trillion

cleat thought out. Kevin De Bruyne

scores for Manchester City in the

eighth minute -- brilliantly thought

out. Nobody in the Cardiff City wall

or the goal or the stadium was

expecting him to do that.

No, and I

would have thought that before the

game the Manchester City players

would have had information about the

Cardiff war, that they all jumped

together and he has taken it on

board and it is so clever, it looks

so simple -- Cardiff wall.

They

don't always up to bend into the top

corner. Neil Warnock's team will

have to come onto Manchester City a

bit more now.

Not straightaway, you

don't want to go two down.

Something, distance and did that

cross the line? Cardiff City fans

thought it had, the assistant

referee was not exactly on the line,

Simon Long kept his flag down.

I

don't think it crossed.

It was

fortunate.

Look at this on the right,

Manchester City have an overload,

Bernardo Silva. And his shot is not

going to count. The flag is up.

Manchester City celebrations will be

cut short here.

Interesting to see

what it is for.

Pep Guardiola is

absolutely apoplectic. Bernardo

Silva with a free run to the edge of

the box and he shoots and was Leroy

Sane offside?

No.

He is ruled to

have been off and upset Neil

Etheridge in his attempts to save it

pulls up you could maybe see that

but it is a big maybe. I don't think

he was offside anyway.

Absolutely

not.

We don't have VAR today.

The

date you want it, we don't have it!

Quelle surprise!

Bernardo Silva, the great ball in at

it is 2-0. Raheem Sterling has

headed it in. What a cross from

Silva onto the head of the smallest

player on the field.

They make it

look so simple. It is a footballing

lesson. No disrespect to Cardiff but

teams have struggled to cope with

this. A quick look, in it goes,

thank you. Isn't football supposed

to be simple?

Manchester City are

making it look that way and Raheem

Sterling and a run of four games

without a goal with his 19th of the

season. He does not score many that

way but rarely does he get that sort

of freedom in the penalty area.

Bluebirds 0- 2 Blue Moons.

You could

see how quick Sterling was getting

the ball back when he gave it away.

Let's see if the throw in from

Callum Paterson can bring some

reward. They managed to clear and

now Sane could run past them all if

he wanted and doing that! He has

been taken out just as he was about

to get into the box by Joe Bennett.

Yellow card for Joe Bennett. Has he

just saved a goal. It was the most

cynical of challenges and I tell you

what, that is a read.

It is, looking

at it now.

-- that is a red. De

Bruyne was caught by Grujic and the

free kick has taken quickly and

Sterling will be Neil Etheridge to

it but he was beaten in the end by a

great challenge. Sean Morrison

stopped Sterling from making it

three and completely killing the

tie.

In fairness to the goalkeeper,

he did well because he made Sterling

have a touch which gave Morrison the

chance to pinch it away from him.

It

just ran a bit too far away from him

which allowed Morris and the chance

and he took it well. Strange to see

him as the calmer of the two men in

the technical areas! This is Kenneth

Zohore and he went for it. He did

not have any alternative but to go

for it when he did.

His touch was

not great, he flicked it up and had

to wait for it to drop. In the end

Otamendi did enough.

This is Hoilett and he has gone for

it! What an effort! Tremendous drive

from Junior Hoilett. So close.

A lot

of ambition about it as well. We are

stored right behind it and for a

split second I was thinking goal and

so was Bravo.

There was a groan as Mendez-Laing

lost possession. What a ball that is

and Sterling denied by Etheridge.

Read it to Morrison as well.

What an

absolutely fantastic pass it is, the

vision is marvellous.

De Bruyne. That is through to

Bernardo Silva and here they come.

Bernardo Silva! Straight at Neil

Etheridge.

Just a little bit too

easy for him, the gap opened and he

needed to curl it around the

goalkeeper, it was too close to him.

Sterling. Gundogan. Through to

Danilo and a good saved by Etheridge

and it was booted away in the end by

Jazz Richards.

It was a lovely

little pass into the path Danilo.

I think Neil Warnock will be happy

with what he has seen from his team

in the second half for sure, they

have been disciplined and they have

not been brushed aside and they have

created one or two openings for

themselves as well. Joe Bennett is

going to go. It is a dreadful tackle

in the first of which he might have

gone for and the second yellow is

inevitable. Joe Bennett is finally

going to be sent off.

The kid had

just come on as well.

He is quite

fortunate that he has played the

second half at all.

He is. People

would say it is just as but it isn't

common should have been gone.

How difficult it is to come in the

Championship, what they do they do

really well. We have played a lot of

games in our lives and a lot of

competitions and no rest and still

fighting every game, so proud.

I

thought we did very well, pleased

with one or two aspects. We are back

where we were before Christmas now.

The quality just showed through,

didn't it? The free kick like that.

They tell us before the game, we

know all the details. It was a

guess, I think the walk was not on

nine metres for me and they were

very close so it was easier to put

it under than over.

You were unhappy

with the referee following a tackle

on Leroy Sane.

I have to protect the

players. I don't understand the goal

we did not concede but it is OK, we

can accept that but they had to

protect the players.

Pep felt it

might have wanted more than a

yellow, how did you see it?

I would

not complain, he honestly doesn't

want to go to lead next week! He

will be training morning, afternoon

and night next week, make no

mistake.

Mark has come down to join

me and Nathan Blake, a hero in this

fixed it when these teams met in the

FA Cup in 1994. It was not to be in

the end, none of the magic of Ninian

Park.

It was pretty straightforward

for Manchester City. Cardiff got

caught between two stools, they went

man for man but it did not work out.

And the midfield, players like Joe

Ralls and that did not want to push

on and they did feel confident

because ultimately that is what Man

City wanted to do. They are

fantastic at just popping it around,

their movement and rotation is

unbelievable. A difficult night for

Cardiff.

I think the neutral was

hoping for a goal for the home team

to make it interesting but it is an

early strike that at the mooted

atmosphere here. What a free kick

from Kevin De Bruyne.

He admitted

afterwards, they had that

information that the Cardiff wall

would jump but the problem, when

you're coming up to take it, do you

have the cahones to pass it into the

net which happened. In fairness to

Cardiff, they will never play

against teams like that. They did

not really plate with a striker as

well in the first half, Manchester

City, and it is so difficult. And if

you go man for man, whatever you do,

they always have a player free. Some

of the football in the first half

from them was sublime.

There was a

moment of confusion when City

thought they had got their second

goal from Bernardo Silva, it looked

like a matter of inches in it.

I

would be very disappointed if that

was disallowed for me. I would have

been chasing the referee!

You would

not have caught him but you would be

chasing him!

I think the strike was

fantastic. They say there was

interference but I don't think the

keeper would have saved it had

anyone been nowhere near him. By the

letter of the law it was offside but

very harsh for me and I would be

devastated.

It did play a part in

the second, a collectors item for

Raheem Sterling on his first headed

goal in two years.

The move was so

long anyway and it involved Sterling

and it came to De Bruyne. The great

thing from the ball from Silva,

first time, did not even look, he

knew where to stick it. You might

ask where was Morrison and manga but

Sterling made the run and did well

with the header because it was a bit

awkward but he headed it down. The

class and the time and the

finishing, everything about it was

brilliant.

Unfortunately for Cardiff

Bay ended with ten men, Joe Bennett

given his marching orders. Pep

Guardiola said to me that he felt

players need more protection in

England because he thought there

were a couple of challenges that

went unpunished.

I felt Bennett's first tackle...

On

Leroy Sane.

It was a shocker. From a

player's perspective you don't want

to see that, the ankle going the

wrong way. It's sickening, a player

of that quality, you can end

someone's career, it's as simple as

that. I know he was trying to stop

the play, slow him down, but so

dangerous. In the end the second

challenge was pretty poor as well,

so fair play.

I have to say once we

saw it live myself and Guy Mowbray

who was commentating, you couldn't

actually tell out first. We had to

have another look. Fortunately for

the referee he had the same kind of

view, but it was an horrendous

tackle.

There were a few today.

There are Championship team, it's

like that every single week. I know

it's difficult for the Premier

League teams and audio lad, he wants

to protect its players, but that is

the norm. -- and Pep Guardiola, he

was to protect his players. But it's

the norm.

You want to win every

challenge and you will miss time of

view, let's be fair, some of their

players, all of their players, their

mind is quicker than most other

players, so they are ahead, whether

its pace, or pace in the mind, they

are one step ahead, so it's always

difficult.

On the plus side for

Cardiff Bay can take positives from

the second half particularly and

continues this game on game

improvement since that horrid

December.

Yeah, it was a shocking

December. I don't think anyone has

seen it coming but they've picked

since. The game today, had Neil

Warnock have the option, he would

have changed 11 players today but

it's the magnitude of it, you are

playing one of Europe's best teams,

you want to show what you have got,

David and Goliath situation, but he

was forcing that situation, the

history of the game, everything, it

was fantastic.

Can City win all four

trophies?

No.

.

There was an all

Premier League affair between

Chelsea and Newcastle. Your

commentator, Steve Wilson.

Chelsea and Newcastle. Your

commentator, Steve Wilson.

The FA Cup is now Chelsea's best

route to a trophy, and it seems to

be Antonio Conte's last season in

charge at Stamford Bridge. He makes

four changes to the team that played

Arsenal. Moses drops to the bench.

Income Cahill, Zappacosta,

Drinkwater and Batshuayi. Newcastle

signed Kenedy on loan from Chelsea

this week but the Brazilian is not

ineligible today. -- he's ineligible

today. Haidara, Ritchie and Gayle

replacing Dummett, Murphy, Atsu and

Joselu. Kevin Friend blows his

whistle and its Chelsea in blue,

with the White Sox, who gets this FA

Cup fourth-round tie under way. This

is the tenth time these two clubs

have been drawn together in the FA

Cup. Six wins, Chelsea three -- six

wins for Chelsea, three for

Newcastle.

Newcastle. Haidara looking to see if

he can get past Zappacosta. He did

well. Shelvey. Needed saving.

Caballero down quickly to the post.

Shelvey had to improvise a little

bit, not easy at hip height.

Caballero was not going to take the

risk. Here's Pedro. It's a much

better ball. Here's Hazard,

Batshuayi Michy Batshuayi, 1-0.

Well, it's all about the quality of

the pass, which started the move,

from Pedro to Hazard. It's a

majestic ball. Batshuayi finding

himself in the right place at the

right time to finish it. What a

brilliant pass this is. A little

touch on there from Marcos Alonso to

Michy Batshuayi, who simply couldn't

miss. And Chelsea have taken the

lead.

lead. Rudiger. Urged to shoot. It's

a great effort, it's not far wide.

Well, he responded to the urgent

demand of the Stamford Bridge crowd

that he had a go and he meant it

beautifully with his left foot.

That's a really good effort -- he

bent it beautifully with his left

foot. Pedro's tome took it to

Batshuayi. Pedro now to Eden Hazard.

Batshuayi is in a good position.

Hazard picked him out as you would

expect. That's a really good block

until it bounces into the back of

the net. Lascelles made the block,

but it ballooned up into the corner

of the Newcastle net and Chelsea

lead by two. You knew Eden Hazard

would find Batshuayi with a perfect

pass, which is what happened. Huge

deflection, which completely

wrong-footed Darlow, and for me that

shot is on target and it will be I

think Batshuayi goal, his second of

the game. Its Chelsea two, Newcastle

nil.

nil. Shelvey, well hit, good save

Caballero. Shelvey thought that had

a real chance of reaching the corner

when he hit it. Deflection on that,

makes it a very good. Newcastle's

second corner of the game coming

almost in the last few seconds of

stoppage time. The goal now might

just give them a foothold. In it

goes, out by Batshuayi, helped on by

Kante, only as far as Henri Saivet.

That travelled a mighty long way and

Caballero that a shovel at around

the post. Mbemba frustrated. A bit

of a comedy of errors. Mbemba

stabbed it goalwards, deflected, and

excellent reactions from Cavaleiro,

Chelsea's 36-year-old stand-in

keeper. -- Caballero.

keeper. -- Caballero. Rudi Garcia,

only to Pedro. -- Rudy Gestede, only

to Pedro. Pedro deserves a gold,

he's been one of the brighter sparks

on show today.

Here's Zappacosta. N'Golo Kante,

Zappacosta. Marcos Alonso. Oh, good

save. Alonso has such great

technique. It's a magnificent

volley. The deflection off

Manquillo.

Well cut out. It was a lovely ball

by Ritchie, really well cut out by

Christians. Batshuayi finding Eden

Hazard. That must have been tight.

Good vision from Batshuayi here. I

think it's inside his own half. I

don't think that's correct at all.

Pedro, turning away from Mbemba.

Here's Zappacosta. Rudy Gestede has

made a run ahead of him. -- Rudiger

has made a run ahead of him. A

fairly industrial challenge by Henri

Saivet, and it's a Chelsea free

kick. Alonso is looking favourite at

the moment. It's Alonso. It's 3-0.

He's so good at that. Marcos Alonso

strokes in his seventh goal of the

season and secures Chelsea a place

in the fifth round of the FA Cup in

the process. Well, Darlow might

reflect that he was a pace too far

to the right, because it wasn't

really in the corner. But Darlow

couldn't reach it and Marcos Alonso

makes it three.

makes it three. And to great

applause Eden Hazard makes way. And

a home debut for Ross Barkley.

Good save. Karl Darlow, decent

effort from Zappacosta, decent save

as well by Darlow. Hudson-Odoi,

moving into two minutes of added

time. Michy Batshuayi, got the first

and second. Good turn, stayed on his

feet and is denied by Darlow again.

Good goalkeeping by the Newcastle

stopper. It's a really good turn.

Good save as well.

In

stopper. It's a really good turn.

Good save as well.

In the first-half

I saw a game in balance and then in

the

the second half, in the end we

decided to win. -- we deserved to

win.

We did well in the first half,

we had some chances, put them under

pressure. We were controlling and

were on top of them. We made a

mistake and counterattack and after

the second goal we were unlucky and

it's a big difference when you play

against Chelsea at home cover 2-0

down. It's even more difficult. You

have to be more open, you leave more

spaces. But I was pleased with the

performance of the team in the first

half and obviously disappointed

because we lost the game, but now we

have to concentrate on the league.

Remember watching Gianfranco Zola

train for practising free kicks,

again and again and again. Is that

the kind of thing you do?

Yeah, of

course, that's the key for

everything, training to play well,

training to put the free kicks in

and that's the way we have to keep

going.

People will say that you

can't catch Manchester City and that

you probably won't beat Barcelona,

so therefore the FA Cup becomes more

important. But I'm sure that you say

it's not true.

Yeah, Barcelona is

already in the next round but there

is two games and we want

is two games and we want to try to

go to the next round. It's not

important, we have to play against

Barcelona.

Barcelona. We will play two

fantastic games, that's the FA Cup

competition and it won't be easy to

win but we want to try to do our

best.

It's the seven time FA Cup

winners Chelsea who are through to

the fifth round of this year's

competition. Lauro, you had a beady

eye on this one. If ever there was a

contest that went down as a routine

win, that was it, wasn't it?

We see

the Championship team here today in

Cardiff and I have to say for a long

time today Newcastle looked like a

Championship team. We know

Championship team. We know they are

short of a striker, and short of a

striker you are lacking goals, but

honestly, defensively there was no

pressure on any of the Chelsea

players, certainly the first couple

of goals. It was far too easy for

Chelsea. Chelsea, if you look at it

as a supporter you would say at the

routine win, but it said more about

Newcastle than Chelsea.

Despite the

white noise around Stamford Bridge

and Antonio Conte, Batshuayi was

given the nod to lead the line

today. Two goals for him. You have

to give him credit despite this talk

of getting another striker to give

Chelsea a plan B, Nathan?

It's

difficult in that situation. His

movement has been questioned. He

does well when he plays, when he

gets the opportunity, he does score

goals. Yes, they want a bit more

from a striker, but he does and it's

difficult when there's so many

people against you and writing stuff

about you, so I was pleased to see

him get two goals today.

Did he give

his manager something to think about

today?

I don't think his manager

rates him, but he's scored a couple

of goals and it's one of those where

he will go to pastures new, but all

he can do is come in and play and

score the goals. He cannot do

anything else. It also I think he

knows as well deep down that he's

not the manager's favourite player.

He's not going to play on a regular

basis.

Talking of an uncertain

future, Antonio Conte is clearly up

in the air despite having another

season after this one. What do you

think, Nathan? Luis Enrique is the

main -- latest name to be touted for

his position at Stamford Bridge. It

seems week by week it is almost

certainly won't be here.

The rumour

gets stronger, it's an interesting

one and it seems to be some sort of

power struggle. I don't really

understand it because it's fantastic

club and really all you have to do

is manage the players. There's so

much else set in place, they've got

a fantastic youth structure, under

23 structure, some of the best in

Europe, so I think most people would

agree if you have that job at the

helm, life should be pretty easy.

I

think what's interesting, under

Abramovich every time they win the

league, Chelsea, they don't click on

again and I don't understand the

logic of that. They've got a good

manager, a good side, you've got to

improve your team from a position of

strength. If you are to have any

chance of winning the league,

because to win it consecutively is

very, very difficult, the Premier

League.

The fans will want

silverware and the FA Cup is

becoming increasingly important. Is

it the one realistic trophy for them

in this campaign?

Absolutely, in

terms of the Champions League that's

going to be tough for them but at

the FA Cup, 12-macro of the other

big sides have gone out, Liverpool

and Arsenal so they probably think

they have a chance. -- warlord two

of the other big sides have gone

out.

They are strong defensively,

they've got some special players,

Pedro, Hazard, Willian, they can do

something special. They play and

counterattack mode if you like. They

have the right tools to win, whether

they will not I don't know but

they've got it.

For Rafa at

Newcastle his eyes are on the bigger

prize, Burnley on Wednesday.

He will

not lose much sleep but it's a mess

and you wonder how they got

themselves in this position. It so

late in the day that are going to be

taking over, I wouldn't have thought

so, are they going to get more

players in, it doesn't look like

they particularly can. Is he still

going to stay or will he spit his

dummy out? They've actually got

themselves in a position now where

they looked like relegation fodder.

They've had such, such a bad run as

well.

Despite what they can do in

the remaining days of this transfer

window. No more signings is what

they are talking about.

They need

players, even in the first transfer

window he said they need more player

and nothing has happened.

It is

difficult to work out with

Newcastle, such a fantastic club and

huge support. Clubs like Arsenal and

Spurs are trying to get to where

they are and they have been there

for many years. I have never worked

it out because the fans are

fantastic. They need to start

winning and put owners in place that

are willing to build over the course

of five or ten years. It seems to be

a yo-yo situation also they had the

season in the Championship and have

come up, they know how difficult it

is.

The last thing you want to do is

put your club in a position to go

back down because it almost

impossible to come straight back up.

In terms of the Emirates FA Cup,

with 20 teams still left in the

competition, the fifth round draw

will take place tomorrow evening

live on The One Show at 7pm on BBC

One.

Gary will bring you the best

of the action on Wednesday night.

There's a full programme of

Premier League matches in midweek.

And on Friday afternoon there's live

coverage from Marbella

as Great Britain's Davis Cup tie

against Spain gets under way.

Aussie Open star Kyle Edmund amongst

those on the GB team.

And should you fancy your own shot

at sporting glory...

Marussia Kaepernick macro teeth

against Cameron Diaz. The FA

the FA People's Cup is open to all

shapes and sizes. To register your

team visit the get inspired website.

That's about all for now

from here in Cardiff.

Our thanks to Nathan Blake

and Mark Lawrenson.

The two heavyweights are through,

not these two! Manchester City and

Chelsea are through to the fifth

round and as the stakes get higher,

I am off to get myself a cap.

Goodbye for now.