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Another Final for Man City

ESPN FC

ESPN

Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Manchester City's dominant victory over Newcastle and argue if Pep Guardiola's side can beat Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final. Plus, the guys debate who should start at striker for Arsenal going forward. Jurgen Klinsmann also breaks down Germany's chances at the World Cup this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Craig Berley and Shaka.

0:08.0

Hisslot. We'll kick things off at the Carrabelle Cup. We're at the semi-final stages, second leg.

0:12.0

Manchester City taking on Newcastle. City, of course, with a 2-0 lead going into this tie at the Airtiad,

0:18.0

and it was soon pretty much over as a contest as Mamouche

0:21.7

would make it 3-0, two more goals to City, Newcastle would get one back, great individual

0:25.9

goal actually from Alanga.

0:27.1

Eddie House teams had a lot of chances actually but in the end Manchester City Advance

0:31.3

convincingly 5-1 on aggregate.

0:34.3

Welcome in watching that for us as well, Frank Lebooth and Juergen Klinsman.

0:38.3

It's weird this you know because

0:40.3

comfortably sitting into the final and hopefully the finals better than the two semifinals.

0:46.3

The two semifinals weren't really much of a contest.

0:49.3

Yesterday was a bit of a bore, okay it tight, but it wasn't a great game.

0:58.9

This is a difficult one because I don't know what side of the fence I want to sit on here,

1:04.7

whether Citi switched off in the second half or Newcastle played really well in the second half because they did make changes, but they were chasing the game.

1:08.6

And they could have had, and Citi could have had a couple more as well.

1:13.2

But I'm not lying here if I said Newcastle could have had four or five easy.

1:17.9

Vessa had two.

1:19.4

When he came on at halftime, the first one he shanked very early in the second half.

1:23.5

There was a chance in the first half before you mentioned it.

1:27.0

There was two chances in the first half that were brilliant chances to make the game two ones.

1:31.2

So it was a strange one.

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