2016-17 FA Cup SF Arsenal Vs Manchester City Sunday April 23,2017

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• This will be the fourth FA Cup tie between the clubs, and the first since 1971 when Arsenal won in the fifth round en route to lifting the trophy.
• The sides drew 2-2 for the third time in six meetings earlier this month, with Manchester City twice relinquishing the lead in a Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium.
• Their most recent encounter at Wembley Stadium was a 3-0 win for Arsenal in the 2014 Community Shield.

Arsenal

• Arsenal's only defeat in their last 21 FA Cup matches came against Watford in last season's quarter-final.
• They could equal the club FA Cup record of four consecutive clean sheets, most recently achieved in 2005.
• The Gunners have reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the 29th time, a competition record.
• They have also won the trophy 12 times, a joint-record alongside Manchester United.
• Arsene Wenger's side are unbeaten in their last six games at Wembley, winning five of them and also knocking Wigan out of the FA Cup on penalties in a semi-final three years ago.
• However, Arsenal have lost seven of their last 13 games in all competitions, with two of their five victories coming against non-league Sutton United and Lincoln City.
• Wenger has won the FA Cup six times as a manager, a joint-tournament record with George Ramsay of Aston Villa.
• Alexis Sanchez has scored five times in his four appearances at Wembley: three goals for Arsenal, and two for Chile against England.

Manchester City

• Manchester City have progressed from each of their last eight FA Cup semi-finals, most recently in 2013 against Chelsea. Their last defeat at this stage was in 1932 against Arsenal.
• City have won the competition five times, latterly in 2011. They were runners-up for the fifth time in 2013.
• They have alternated between victory and defeat in their last seven appearances at Wembley, beating Liverpool in a penalty shootout last time out in the 2016 League Cup final.
• City have won a club record 11 top-flight away matches this season, as well as three wins out of three on the road against Premier League opposition in the FA Cup.
• Pep Guardiola won his only previous game as a manager at Wembley, when his Barcelona side beat Manchester United 3-1 in the 2011 Champions League final.
• Sergio Aguero has scored 13 goals in 14 FA Cup appearances, with four of those goals coming this season.

Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-1

Goal Scorers

For Arsenal - Nacho Monreal(71) and Alexis Sanchez(101)

For Manchester City - Sergio Aguero(62)

Alexis Sanchez's scrambled extra-time winner secured Arsenal an FA Cup final date with Chelsea - and ensured Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will end a season without a trophy for the first time in his coaching career.

Arsenal showed great resilience to come from behind - and eased the pressure on manager Arsene Wenger - after Sergio Aguero raced clear of Nacho Monreal to put City ahead in the 62nd minute.

Monreal made amends with the equaliser 11 minutes later as he drilled in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross at the far post - but City were left nursing a serious sense of injustice after this disappointing defeat.

They had a goal wrongly ruled out in the first half when Leroy Sane's cross was adjudged to have gone out before Aguero and Raheem Sterling combined to turn it into the net, while Yaya Toure and Fernandinho hit the woodwork after the break.

It left Arsenal victorious and Wenger aiming for a record seventh FA Cup triumph.

• Arsenal have reached their 20th FA Cup final, a competition record.
• This was Manchester City's first FA Cup semi-final defeat since 1932, also against Arsenal - the Citizens had won eight consecutively before this defeat.
• Alexis Sanchez is Arsenal's top scorer in games at Wembley, with four goals - he overtook Marc Overmars and Ian Wright on three.
• Sanchez has now been involved in more goals than any other Premier League player in all competitions this season (38, 24 goals and 14 assists).
• Sergio Aguero has scored 12 goals in his past 12 matches for Manchester City in all competitions.
• It was Aguero's second goal at Wembley, having netted for City against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final in April 2013.
• Nacho Monreal's last two goals for Arsenal have come in the FA Cup, both against Manchester clubs (having scored against Manchester United in March 2015).
• Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has six assists in his past 10 FA Cup starts for Arsenal. In all competitions this season, only Mesut Ozil (10) and Alexis Sanchez (14) have more assists than Oxlade-Chamberlain (nine).