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Welcome, one and all, to Eurosport's LIVE coverage of the FA Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Manchester City? Which of these teams will progress to face Chelsea in the final? Which manager's last chance to salvage some silverware for the season will disappear today? All will become clear in three hours or so. Team news up next...

The Emirates FA Cup / Semi-final
Wembley / 23.04.2017
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Updated 23/04/2017 at 17:35 GMT+1


6'
Nice work from Bravo to stop a deflected Oxlade-Chamberlain cross going behind for a corner. Arsenal will surely be looking to test him early on, although they haven't seen much of the ball thus far.
4'
Some nice interplay down Man City's left results in De Bruyne putting in a low cross which Koscielney hacks clear.
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De Bruyne has the first shot of the game, one he drags wide from 20 yards.
1st Half
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Arsenal get the game underway. Craig Pawson is our referee.
14:57
'Hey Jude' currently be belting out at an electric Wembley where the two sides are about to enter the pitch.
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Ten minutes to go. Here's a reminder of the teams in full. ARSENAL: Cech, Gabriel, Koscielny, Holding, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Xhaka, Ramsey, Monreal, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud. Subs: Martinez, Bellerin, Gibbs, Coquelin, Walcott, Iwobi, Welbeck. /// MANCHESTER CITY: Bravo, Navas, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy, Fernandinho, Toure, De Bruyne, Silva, Sane, Aguero. Subs: Caballero, Zabaleta, Fernando, Sterling, Kolarov, Delph, Iheanacho.
14:46
"To achieve the final we need to give a good performance," Guardiola tells the TV cameras pre-game, not giving much away. He also says that he's picked the team he has to give himself the best chance of winning the game.
14:43
14:40
The Citizens' strikeforce looks pretty dangerous today but it could even more so next year, if today's newspapers are to be believed.
14:35
Chelsea await in the final, of course, after their 4-2 win over Spurs in the other semi-final yesterday. Here are some truths that game, as well as some of the Premier League fixtures yesterday, taught us.
14:32
Another good omen for Pep.
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As for Pep Guardiola this is not his first game at Wembley, as he beat another Manchester side, United, here in 2011 to win the Champions League.
14:24
In 2014 and 2015 Arsenal played Championship sides in the semis, so toady represents quite a different challenge according to Arsene Wenger. “It is a match between two Premier League teams who are very close to each other in the table, so that means it’s very open and certainly you will be a bit more on your toes mentally,” he said. "In this situation we know that City are a very offensive team so we will need to defend well as a unit. We need to take every single chance to go forward and put them under pressure."
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This is Arsenal's 29th FA Cup semi-final, meaning they've appeared in more than any other club.
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These two sides have only met in the FA Cup on three previous occasions. Arsenal won twice, with one of those games being a 1932 semi-final, and City once way back in 1904.
14:10
Man City too are unchanged from their last game, a 3-0 triumph at Southampton, so th headline news in Vincent Kompany's place in central defence. Leroy Sane will be on the left against Oxlade-Chamberlain, so good luck with that, Arsenal, while there's no Gabriel Jesus on the bench.
14:05
Arsene Wenger names an unchanged side to the one that beat Middlesbrough on Monday, which means it's three at the back again with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain asked to fill in at right wing-back. Danny Welbeck, who it had been suggested would miss out altogether today, is on the bench.