This is also a sweet victory for Roberto Mancini. Cityas boss awakes to day-to-day headlines about his job prospects but he's on course for carpet for a third consecutive year, Cityas service adore him and his team worked well to his instructions, truly for two-thirds with this unique game. The target was also on the other dug-out. Intriguingly, Benitez has started on a offensive recently, also inviting reporters to view teaching at Cobham and then talking them through his methods a while later. Coupled with improved type in the Premier League, Chelseaas goes in the knock-out awards stilled some of the patio dissent towards Benitez so yesterdayas relinquishing of the FA Cup will hurt. On being appointed in November, the former Liverpool director called on Chelsea fans not to decide him until May. aWe have five trophies to fight for and at the end we will see what happens,aa he said in those days. Chelsea have only one to fight for now, bringing back into focus the wisdom of dismissing Roberto di Matteo, who had led the team to the Champions League and the FA Cup. The newest Wembley is a second home for Chelsea, winners of the Cup here in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Of recently those forming the spine supporting those advantages, just Petr Cech was engaged. Didier Drogba has left. David Terry was on the seat. So was Frank Lampard, barring a long warm-up where he was saluted mentally by a Chelsea support.The long farewell continues. As Lampard stretched and watched, City dominated for an hour. Cech saved from Aguero and Carlos Tevez. Chelsea answered only occasionally in the very first half. Hazardas picture was cleared off the point by Vincent Kompany, nevertheless they were found out by an instant City spike after 35 minutes. Toure stormed down the right, cutting in and playing the ball through to Aguero. He set the ball off to Samir Nasri, who got a privileged reversal off Cesar Azpilicueta, and stroked a go past Cech. Nasri generally seems to just take more responsibility when David Silva is missing. Two minutes to the second half, City doubled their cause when Barry dinked in a combination, Branislav Ivanovic did not stick with Aguero and the striker looped a over Cech and. Benitez then made a significant move, calling for Torres after 64 minutes. Chelseaas temporary first-team instructor would have eliminated Ba, maintaining the 4-2-3-1 system but instead he went 4-4-2 and was quickly rewarded. A long ball was swept by david Luiz ahead and Ba, using unusual anxiety in Cityas protection, connected Chelsea back into the overall game. The others of the half was so strong. Pantilimon jumped at Juan Mataas feet and then preserved well from Ba. City had a rare break but Toure had his heel trimmed when firing. Good dilemmas littered Wembley by the conclusion. Aguero taken care of immediately being kept off aggressively by Luiz with a two-footed stamp, catching the collapsing Brazilian on the left buttock. A furious Luiz did not look in the mood to show the other cheek. Chelsea undoubtedly didnat. Some retribution was exacted by Torres, a friend of Luiz, fleetingly afterwards by raked Agueroas Achilles. The controversies continued when Kompany plainly impeded Torres, clutching the strikeras top, when he was through on goal. Joe Foy, who had an undesirable 2nd half, waved play on when he should have pointed to the location. As Foy saw the earlier Aguero problem, the FA is impossible to punish the Argentine. The sulphur of dispute can remain until the final due to the kick-off time. It will either start at either 5.15pm or 5.30pm, complicating life for anyone going on the train. The last train to Manchester departs Euston at 9.00pm and the final one to Wigan at 10.08pm. These is going to be heaving, putting stress on earlier trains and that does not take into consideration the possibility of extra time and fines. The M6 might be much more choked than normal. Good news for M6 Toll path professionals. Clearly, fans of City and Wigan have voiced their displeasure while traditionalists required a to the old 3pm kick-off. The FA says it'll pay attention to representations from both groups when it finalises the kick-off time during this weekas meeting with broadcasters and the Met police. The expectation is that it will perhaps not be a 3pm kick-off since broadcasters get more than 1m more audiences at a later slot. As ever at the costly new Wembley, money talks.
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