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Hello and welcome to Eurosport's coverage of Manchester City's trip to Cheltenham in the FA Cup fourth round. I'm Ciaran Baynes and I'll be following the match with you.

The Emirates FA Cup / 4th Round
Completely-Suzuki Stadium / 23.01.2021
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Pete Sharland

Updated 23/01/2021 at 19:28 GMT


31'
They are very well organised Cheltenham, making things very hard for City to break them down.
29'
Clements puts a high ball from a free kick on the right flank into the box but Steffen claims under pressure on the edge of his six-yard box.
27'
Mendy is in the game a lot. This time a first time cross behind the Cheltenham defence that gets a deflection off Blair but goes beyond the far post to safety.
24'
May shoots into the side-netting. It as a lovely lob from Azaz over the City defence to set him up. Steffen tips the ball away but was probably going wide.
22'
Giood inswinging cross from Mahrez but Jesus misses an attempted header, as the ball deflects off his shoulder and out for a goal kick.
19'
Mendy pulls back from the by-line to Torres who shoots low but not too hard and Griffiths blocks the effort.
15'
Mendy sends a long ball into the box that Tozer clears but Torres goes down clutching his chest. Caught on the follow through it seems. No danger of a spot kick and no VAR at League Two grounds.
12'
Great clearance off the line by Tozer. The ball fell to Mendy on the edge of the box and he struck it like a rocket towards the top corner by the Town skipper.
12'
Good cross from Doyle across the six-yard box but Raglan cleared well.
10'
A good start from Cheltennham. Pushing up high up the field and not afraid to push players forward into the attack.
7'
A free kick from an errant tackle from Jesus 25 yards from goal. Clements clipped it into the area and Thomas tried to clip it back across goal but City cleared. The hosts appealed for a penalty but nothing doing.
6'
Cheltenham look to have a bit of quality in midfield with Azaz and Thomas.
3'
Cheltenham's top scorer May has flown into the advertising hoardings under his own steam hurting his elbow but will carry on.
2'
Almost a goal straight away from City lovely lofted ball from Mahrez and Jesus gets behind the Town defence but Griffiths spread himself and jumped high to just avoid being lobbed.
1'
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City get us underway...
17:27
The players are on the field now. Almost ready to go.
17:26
Nice this from City. Will they stumble over today's hurdle....
17:20
As you'd expect, very skinny odds for Man City, at best you might get 1/10, while Cheltenham can be backed at 25/1. A draw at 12/1 has some appeal.
17:03
City of course are on a great run which has taken them to the top of the Premier League. Nine wins on the bounce and 13 and three draws from 16.
16:57
As for City, academy duo defender Taylor Harwood-Bellis and midfielder Tommy Doyle play their third games of the season (the previous two also in cup competition), while American Zack Steffen gets another game between the sticks.
16:51
Cheltenham haven't won in the league for six weeks but remain in contention for promotion from Division Two. One thing they have got is highly-rated goalkeeper in Josh Griffiths, on loan from West Brom.