Man City 1-0 Chelsea LIVE RESULT: Bernardo Silva’s late strike secures City’s spot in FA Cup final – reaction

Sitters

Two of the three sitters from Nicolas Jackson this afternoon...

Pep fury

Pep Guardiola was livid in his post-match words to the BBC, slamming the decision for his team to play today.

He pointed to the Coventry vs Man Utd game tomorrow where neither side played in midweek - neither did Chelsea.

He ranted to the BBC panel: "It's unacceptable to let us play today.

"It's impossible, for the health of the players. It's not normal. It's unacceptable. 120 minutes, the emotions of Madrid, the way we lose, honestly.

"I know this country is special [with the FA Cup] but it's for the health of the players. I don't understand how we survived today.

Do you think demanding will change something? The only power I have I say here. Why don't we play tomorrow. Chelsea, Manchester United, Coventry didn't play midweek.

"I thought a lot. I remember two seasons ago we had Dortmund on Wednesday - and Liverpool on Saturday [in the FA Cup semi]. They were 3-0 up at half-time. They destroyed us.

"Mentally so tough to recover. Rodri, the way he played today, Kyle, who was injured for a few weeks, I don't understand how they survived.

"We want to play football. We love to play football but it's too much.

"We defend our trophy. We'll be here."

Match report

ZERO-TO-HERO Bernardo Silva roared “make mine a Double instead” with a late winner for jaded Manchester City.

Silva’s embarrassing penalty had set City on the road to the agonising Champions League defeat on spot-kicks by Real Madrid that ended their dreams of back-to-back Trebles.

But the Portugal international put himself on the road to redemption by delivering the decisive moment for Pep Guardiola’s ragged-looking team.

Despite looking physically and emotionally drained by their midweek exertions, City found a way to win and may well lift the Premier League trophy again before being back here next month for the final.

Chelsea suffered yet more Wembley agony after losing the Carabao Cup final to Liverpool in February in the dying minutes of extra-time.

That makes it ten defeats in their last 13 since the reopening of the national stadium.

MAN CITY 1 CHELSEA 0

Silva goes from villain to FA Cup hero as he makes up for penalty miss

Bounced back

Bernardo Silva was delighted to 'put things right' after a tough week.

Speaking after the game, he told BBC: "Very happy after a very frustrating week for all of us, for me personally. The good thing is in football at Man City, you play every three days.

"Every three days you have the chance to put things right and now we have a chance to win another trophy.

"Throughout the years, we've done it may times and today, the team showed a lot of character."

Unbeaten run

Man City now 29 games unbeaten in all competitions.

No, the midweek penalty shootout loss doesn't count - they drew the game itself.

The 23 wins and six draws makes it the longest unbeaten run in the club's history.

Match stats

The numbers behind the game, with not too much happening in front of goal.

City's three shots on target all coming in the second half.

Wasteful Chelsea

As mentioned before, Chelsea's undoing was in front of goal and their lack of a competent striker.

Nicolas Jackson had THREE unbelievable chances with the score at 0-0 and fluffed every single one of them.

City look tired, jaded and out of ideas and Chelsea still stuttered and couldn't get past.

FT: Man City 1-0 Chelsea

Bernardo Silva goes from Champions League zero to FA Cup hero as Manchester City reached another FA Cup final.

Silva's stupid penalty was the catalyst to City losing out to Real Madrid in midweek.

And in truth he was anonymous for 82 minutes here too.

But he popped up with seven minutes left to smash City into the showpiece at the end of the season.