Manchester City 5 Huddersfield 1: Sergio Aguero’s double and strikes from Leroy Sane, Pablo Zabaleta and Kelechi Iheanacho fire Citizens into quarters

MANCHESTER CITY survived an early scare to secure a spot in the FA Cup quarter finals after a 5-1 replay victory over Huddersfield.

A brace from from Sergio Aguero, Leroy Sane, Pablo Zabaleta and Kelechi Iheanacho grabbed the all-important goals to fire Pep Guardiola's side into the last eight at the expense of the brave Terriers.

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The clash began in explosive fashion as the Etihad was stunned into silence. Former City academy graduate Harry Bunn finished off a Terriers counter-attack to fire the Championship side into the lead.

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Huddersfield's joy, however, was to be short-lived. After surviving some strong home pressure, they were eventually undone when Raheem Sterling drilled a low cross across the centre into the path of Sane to tap home.

It got even worse for Dave Wagner's men just five minutes later.

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Aguero was bundled over inside the area, and the Argentine dusted himself off to fire home the spot-kick.

And the first half drama was not done there. After Aguero had been denied a second by the woodwork, he turned provider for Zabaleta to finish from close-range.
City's dominance continued after the restart, but they almost allowed their opponents back into it on 56 minutes.

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A Huddersfield corner was swung into the area, but Joe Lolley could only manage to head over the bar when in space.

That miss was to prove costly later on as Aguero added gloss to the scoreline and hammered another final nail into coffin with just over 15 to play.

The hitman timed his run to perfection at the near post to to convert Sterling's low cross past the keeper before Kelechi Iheanacho cooly finished in added time to book their tie at Boro.

FACTS, STATS, GOALS AND LOLS

• Pep Guaridola has never lost to a lower league side in domestic cup competitions in all his managerial career. Looking at the team he picked he had no intention of starting now.
• David Wagner's nine changes suggested his priority is the two league home games coming up in the next six days. Understandable - but a shame in many ways.
• Dean Whitehead has had his fair share of duels with City over the years so perhaps they were an appropriate opponent for the midfielder's 500th start of his career.

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• Harry Bunn joined City at the age of nine and spent 13 years there - never making a first-team appearance and left in 2014. What a sweet moment for him.
• Since City beat Huddersfield 10-1 in November 1987, they had failed to beat the Terriers in the four home games since going into this one.
• Leroy Sane held three fingers up at referee Paul Tierney after equalising. That was because he felt his team should have had three penalties for handball.
• Aguero was back on penalties in the absence of Yaya Toure and the Argentine - who missed two against Everton in October - made no mistake.

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• He had missed three already this season - two against Everton and two at Steaua Bucharest.
• After Zabaleta scored the third, some home fans sang 'We want 10' - perhaps some of them were here on that day 30 years ago.
• The sarcastic applause when Claudio Bravo saved from Jack Payne did not go down too well with Pep Guardiola - who turned round and glared into the stands.
• How can City even consider selling Aguero? That's four goals in two home matches in eight days now. Who needs Gabriel Jesus?

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BIG PICTURE

SOCIAL SAYS

DREAM TEAM RATINGS

MANCHESTER CITY: Bravo 5, Zabaleta 7, Stones 6, Otamendi 8, Clichy 7, Fernandinho 7, Sterling 7, De Bruyne 8 (Delph 76, 6), Garcia 7, Sane 8 (Navas 81, 5), Aguero 10 (Iheanacho 79, 7)
Subs not used: Sagna, Fernando, Caballero, Silva

Goals: Sane (30), Aguero (35, 74), Zabaleta (38), Iheanacho (90)

HUDDERSFIELD: Coleman 5, Cranie 5, Hudson 5, Stankovic 4, Holmes-Dennis 5, Whitehead 6, Billing 7 (Hogg 67, 5), Lolley 5 (Smith 61, 5), Payne 5, Bunn 7 (van La Parra 6), Quaner 6

Subs not used: Ward, Kachunga, Wells, Hefele

Goal: Bunn (6)

WHAT THEY SAID

Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling, speaking to BBC Sport: "They went 1-0 up and we were disappointed to concede early. They played well and were at us. But credit to the boys, we dug in and showed spirit.

"We want to compete in as many trophies as we can and the FA Cup is something we want to go all the way in. We just need to keep going game by game and challenge in every one."

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero:  "I am very happy for the result and the two goal but especially for getting through to the next round.

"I always try to do my best and do what the manager wants me to do. I want to make my manager happy with my performances."