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Manchester City Fan View: City head to Wigan with Wembley on their mind
Manchester City will have Wembley on their mind in a big way when they head to Wigan on Monday night for their FA Cup fifth round fixture.
The Premier League leaders and cup favourites will visit the home of the League One leaders knowing that if they get the win they expect, they will play host to Southampton in the quarter-final. Though one never takes anything for granted, Wigan and Southampton represent highly-winnable games for Pep Guardiola’s side; if they were succeed in both, then they would confirm a place at Wembley in the semi-final.
Remarkably, the quarter-final draw kept the four remaining Premier League heavyweights apart. If Guardiola does guide his side safely into the last four, they would be likely to face Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham. Not guaranteed, of course – the cup does throw up plenty of shock results. But that is what City must be prepared for.
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It’s hard not to think ahead. The reality is that City are not even assured to be in the cup beyond Monday night. Paul Cook’s Wigan side have already dumped two top flight sides out of this competition in the shape of Bournemouth and West Ham. It goes without saying that the Blues are a completely different proposition for The Latics, but the odds are so heavily stacked against them that they have nothing to fear. That said, Cook did joke that he’d asked the FA for special dispensation to field 14 players.
The tantalising prospect of an FA Cup semi-final and final is not the only reason the Blues are looking ahead to Wembley. The week might start with a fairly unglamorous journey to Wigan, but it ends on Sunday with a League Cup final. That game pits them against Arsenal in the race to win the first piece of silverware this season. Win it, and the first part of a still-unlikely quadruple is in the bag and would assure City of winning at least two trophies this term, with the Premier League title also destined to head to the Etihad Stadium imminently.
Defeat in that final would be cruel for a City side that has proven itself to be a long, long way ahead of any domestic rival this season. City must reward their quality and consistency with tangible success; they are one step away from turning great results into real honours.
There is one other reason why Wembley will be firmly in the minds of City supporters on Monday; we still carry with us the unhappy memory on the 2013 FA Cup final. That day, Roberto Mancini’s City suffered a shock, last-minute defeat to a dismal Wigan side that would be relegated from the Premier League just days later. The Latics are forever etched into City’s history with one of the great cup final shocks and it’s a memory that we can never erase.
The following year, as a Championship team, Wigan put City out of the FA Cup again. That was at the Etihad Stadium in a season when the Blues would win the League Cup and Premier League double.
City will not need to be reminded that there is no room for complacency in cup competitions; just the name of Wigan Athletic is enough to send a shudder down the spine of any City fan. Things have changed for both clubs since that final, but the cup can still throw up surprises. Wembley is on the horizon for Manchester City, but first they need to make the somewhat less-fashionable DW Stadium another step in the incredible journey of this season.
