After only a miracle can take the title away from Manchester United in the Premier League, for Chelsea and Manchester City remains the possibility of trophy of the FA Cup. However, Chelsea will play a semi-final in the Europa League, while for Manchester City FA Cup provides the only opportunity to gain any valuable trophy this season. This means that most likely symbolic guests will aggressively seek qualification for the finals of the tournament where they can face Millwall or Everton.
Manchester City team has won three of their last four games against Chelsea and this match comes in quite a nice time for the "citizens". Chelsea had a long trip to Kazan for the quarterfinal match of the Europa League against Rubin Kazan, lost by the blues 3-2. Chelsea, however, is the team that dominates in the FA Cup in recent years, winning 23 of their last 28 games in this tournament. From 2007 up to now, Chelsea has all four trophies from the oldest football tournament in the world - FA Cup.
Many of Benitez's key player got a rest this week - Ivanovic, Hazard, Oscar Mata. Demba Ba got a slight injury in the match against Sunderland but is expected to be ready to play against Manchesar City. David Silva is a big concern for Roberto Mancini after receiving an injury in the last minutes of the match with Manchester United and his participation in this game is in question. This clash is definitely a final before the final, and no doubt we can expect a great battle in which all football fans will be hoping to see a lot of goals.