MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester City powered forward with ease into the FA Cup
quarterfinals on Saturday, overcoming Premier League title rival Chelsea 2-0 to
maintain its quadruple chase.
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and Samir Nasri provided the goals to avenge a 1-0 league loss this month, with
a formidable City in complete control and preventing Chelsea from hitting the
target once. "We can beat everyone," Jovetic said. "We learnt something (from
losing to Chelsea), you could see that on the pitch." Although Chelsea leads the
league, City is only three points behind in third with a game in hand after its
midweek game was postponed due to bad weather. City also remains in Champions
League contention, facing Barcelona at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, and meets
Sunderland in the League Cup final next month. Sunderland also advanced in the
FA Cup, with Craig Gardner clinching a 1-0 victory over Southampton. Wigan
maintained its cup defence by winning 2-1 at Cardiff, with Ben Watson, whose
goal clinched the cup before the team was relegated from the topflight last May,
netting the winner in south Wales. In Sundays headline fixture in the fifth
round, Arsenal hosts Liverpool in another meeting of Premier League title
rivals. With City hosting Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday, beating
Chelsea showed the enviable depth of resources available at Manuel Pellegrinis
disposal. Jovetic, who is only Citys fourth-choice striker despite being signed
last year at a cost of 24 million pounds ($40 million), first came close when he
struck the crossbar from the rebound after goalkeeper Petr Cech fumbled Yaya
Toures strike. Jovetic hit the woodwork again in the 16th minute but this time
the ball went over the line as City ripped through a Chelsea defence missing
captain John Terry. David Silva played in Edin Dzeko, who sent the ball out for
Jovetic to strike off the post into the bottom left. It was just Jovetics sixth
goal of an injury-hit start to his City career. City was far more assertive and
cohesive than the side that was beaten here by Chelsea less than two weeks ago,
with Dzeko also testing Cech with a curling shot. "We wanted revenge today,"
City captain Vincent Kompany said. "Twelve days ago we had a really bad game, we
gave them a lot of chances." How different this game was. After failing to get a
sight of goal in the first half, Chelsea striker Samuel Etoo was replaced at
halftime, with Mohamed Salah coming on. The January signing didnt help to
transform Chelseas fortunes, and forward Fernando Torres was brought off the
bench on the hour to replace Ramires, taking a central position as Salah shifted
to the right. But it was a City substitution that made a bigger impact as Nasri,
in his first appearance in a month, completed an incisive move to score six
minutes after coming on. After receiving the ball from Nasri, Silva squared it
back to the Frenchman, who continued his run to dart into space between
defenders David Luiz and Gary Cahill, and slot the ball in from close range. It
was Citys 117th goal of a season that should end with a trophy unlike last year
under Roberto Mancini. "I had a lot of questions after Chelsea, if were going to
change our way of playing," Pellegrini said, referring to the 1-0 loss. "But I
repeat: We will not change the way we play. Today was important to show why we
continue to play in the same way." Chelsea can only win on two fronts -- the
Premier League and Champions League -- and Jose Mourinhos side has the edge over
City domestically having won both league encounters. "We were never close to
scoring or being dominant, or bringing a scare to the game," Mourinho said.
"Today there was a different freshness between the teams ... and one team had a
week without professional football," he added.
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lot of work to do on this team and the sooner that I can get back to my office
and start that work, itll be better," he said straight-faced as the rest of the
room erupted in laughter.
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