Whatever the rights and wrongs of Manchester Citys team choice – and Manuel Pellegrini will argue with anyone who accuses him of going too far with his protests – it was hard not to leave Stamford Bridge thinking that when the account comes to be written about this seasons FA Cup this mismatch will form an unsatisfactory fragment of the narrative.
This tie ought to have been a cracker. Instead there was an air of inevitability as soon as the teams were announced and it became clear Pellegrini was not making idle threats about fielding a scratch XI and,in effect, waving Chelsea into the quarter-finals.
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Source: theguardian.com