Article by Mihai Șovei – Published Saturday, May 16, 2026, 10:01 am / Updated Saturday, May 16, 2026 10:11 am
Chelsea and Manchester City meet today at 17:00 in the FA Cup final. The match at Wembley will be broadcast in liveTEXT format on GSP.ro and on the Voyo platform.
The two teams will meet in the 145th FA Cup final. The “Citizens” are favorites to win the trophy, but the Londoners will try to cause a surprise.
LIVE 17:00 » Chelsea – Manchester City
Probable teams at Chelsea – Manchester City
Chelsea: Sanchez – Gusto, Fofana, Colwill, Hato – James, Caicedo – Palmer, Fernandez, Cucurella – Pedro
Coach: Calum McFarlane
Manchester United: Trafford – Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O'Reilly – Gonzalez, Bernardo Silva – Semenyo, Cherki, Doku – Haaland
Coach: Pep Guardiola
Chelsea and Manchester City are fighting for the FA Cup
Manchester City became the first team to reach four consecutive finals after a hard-fought semi-final victory over Southampton, but have won just one of their last three. Manchester United and Crystal Palace have both beaten Pep Guardiola's side in the final in the last two seasons and revenge is sought this weekend.
Chelsea will carry the 'outsider' label in today's match. The Londoners had a poor run of form towards the end of Liam Rosenior's tenure and things have not improved at all under Calum McFarlane, whose talented but under-performing side have proved alarmingly disorganized in recent months.
Chelsea and Manchester City have dominated this competition in recent years. Since 2016/17, they have won the most games (Chelsea 37, City 45), scored the most goals (Chelsea 111, City 159) and kept the most clean sheets (Chelsea 26, City 28).
In the two matches played in the Premier League, Manchester City did not lose to Chelsea. He achieved a win (3-0) and a draw (1-1).
The two coaches prefaced today's duel.
Manchester City are an exceptional team with an exceptional manager and exceptional players, so it will be a challenge. But we also have very good players, and these players have shown that if they are at the highest level, they can beat anyone.
The players have the belief that they can beat anyone. We just know that we have to be the best version of ourselves.
– Calum McFarlane, Chelsea manager
The message to the players is that we have to move, run, play well against Chelsea to beat them.
It's the FA Cup final at Wembley with two prestigious clubs, with our fans making an incredible effort to come to London, which is not cheap these days, and try to play as well as possible to win.
– Pep Guardiola, Manchester City manager
