Manchester City Survive and Advance, Win 3-1 v Cheltenham Town: Reaction & Tweets

Manchester City needed to give it everything they had in the last 10 minutes to see off an exceptionally disciplined Cheltenham Town.

The League Two side, 72 places below City in the football pyramid, looked set to pull off one of the biggest modern-day FA Cup shocks after taking a second-half lead.

Phil Foden and Ferran Torres stole the show and City get their win and advance to the fifth round. A win, progression and we move.

On to the reaction-

Pep Guardiola Reaction

“We have the players - Phil has to be Phil and not be Kevin De Bruyne because there is only one Kevin De Bruyne,”

“He needs to keep doing what he has being doing in terms of when we are in a bad moment or when we are losing in terms of what he gave to the game.

“Phil is in a great moment and with great confidence. he is clinical in front of goal.

“He can play winger, in the middle or in four or five positions up front. He is playing really well, has the physicality and in the right moment he scored a goal.”

“Of course (I was worried). But like the Newport game two years ago, we worked, suffered, tried different systems and were there at the end and our quality was the difference,” the City boss added.

“But a big complement to our opponents and I said that to Michael (Duff). They have a fantastic team who defend so compact and they fight as one.

“We are happy to win this type of games, in this competition – we know what can happen all around the world and in Europe when smaller teams can knock bigger ones out and we knew it.

“I know from my experience when we played Newport two years ago and we won in the last minutes of the second half were tough and against Wigan knocked us out so we know the FA Cup and that’s why it is nice that every team can beat anyone.

“But it is about our response in 90 minutes - at 1-0, I didn’t have any regrets about the way we were playing or behaving.

“And fortunately the talent from the cross from Joao the exceptional finish from Gabriel and Phil – the goals were excellent.

“I was very happy with the reaction of the players.”

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