Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City LIVE: FA Cup semi-final team live scores and updates – UK Times

14 mins: Marmoush sends in a free-kick on the right but can’t beat the first man. Poor.

It feels like City have got one or two extra men on the pitch at the moment. Any time Forest try to counter, there’s a blue shirt or three in the way to dispossess and press forward again.

12 mins: Kovacic has been a handful so far and darts into the box again. City win a corner but Sels gets to the delivery.

Nunes gives the ball away cheaply and Forest try to counter, but they struggle to get out of their half and Kovacic robs Danilo at the half-way line to tee up another City move. Toffolo heads it away eventually.

9 mins: This could be a long old afternoon for Nottingham Forest. Their fans were making all the noise before kick-off but have been thoroughly dampened now, and Nuno’s side have barely ventured out of their own half.

Bernardo Silva travels with the ball but Danilo hooks it clear on the edge of the six-yard box. VAR check it for handball by Danilo, but nothing doing.

5 mins: Savinho is released down the right but Murillo gets there in time to clear.

2 mins: The perfect start for Manchester City!

City work the ball forward, Forest look way too tentative, and Kovacic finds Lewis on the edge of the box. He takes a touch before firing a right-footed strike into the bottom left corner. Simple as.

2 mins: As you’d expect, City are having a lot of possession in these very early stages, with Grealish making his presence felt.

The teams head down the tunnel… minutes to go at Wembley.

Quick reminder of the team news for this afternoon:

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Abbott, Milenkovic, Murillo, Dominguez, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Danilo, Toffolo, Hudson-Odoi, Wood.

Substitutes: Miguel, Morato, Sangare, Awoniyi, Moreno, Jota, Elanga, Sosa, Boly.

Manchester City XI: Ortega, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Lewis, Kovacic, Bernardo, Savinho, Grealish, Marmoush

Substitutes: Ederson, Doku, Nico, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Reis, Akanji, Khusanov, Foden

Forest have won the FA Cup twice, but this is their first semi-final appearance for more than 30 years.

Their last major trophy came in the League Cup in 1990, some 34 years ago, with their last appearance in the FA Cup final the following year.

Manchester City on the other hand are in their seventh consecutive FA Cup semi-final, having lifted the trophy three times in the last 15 years and seven times overall.