{"id":516084,"date":"2026-04-06T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516084\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:04:11","slug":"womens-fa-cup-quarter-finals-live-chelsea-vs-tottenham-birmingham-city-vs-manchester-city-build-up-text-commentary-scores-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516084\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s FA Cup Quarter-Finals LIVE: Chelsea vs Tottenham &#038; Birmingham City vs Manchester City &#8211; build-up, text commentary, scores &#038; match stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team news &#8211; Six Birmingham changes, four for Man Citypublished at 16:46 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:46 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Birmingham City v Manchester City (17:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blues boss Amy Merricks makes six changes from the Birmingham City starting line-up that beat Bristol City 1-0 last time out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucy Thomas, Hannah Silcock, Shannon Cooke, Lee Geum-min, Shanade Hopcroft and Lotta Lindstrom come in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They replace Adrianna Franch, Rebecca Holloway, Martha Harris, Chelsea Cornet, Wilma Leidhammar and Veatriki Sarri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham City XI: Thomas, Silcock, Cooke, McKenna, Hurtre, Herron, Lee, Hopcroft, Crosthwaite, Lindstrom, Miyagawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Subs: Irvine, Harris, Kovacs, Leidhammar, Holloway, Quinn, Cornet, Sarri, Louis<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Birmingham City XI: Thomas, Silcock, Cooke, McKenna, Hurtre, Herron, Lee, Hopcroft, Crosthwaite, Lindstrom, Miyagawa.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/74f709f6-9a9b-4bff-a41f-1917fa5a8908.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"723\" height=\"685\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andree Jeglertz makes four changes to the Manchester City side who beat Manchester United 3-0 in their previous game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khiara Keating, Leila Ouahabi, Iman Beney and Laura Coombs come in for Ayaka Yamashita, Kerstin Casparij, Rebecca Knaak and Vivianne Miedema,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City XI: Keating, Rose, Greenwood, Ouahabi, Beney, Coffey, Hasegawa, Hemp, Fujino, Coombs, Shaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Subs: Cumings, Fowler, Kerolin, Casparij, Blindkilde Brown, Knaak, Prior, Oyama, Murphy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester City XI: Keating, Rose, Greenwood, Ouahabi, Beney, Coffey, Hasegawa, Hemp, Fujino, Coombs, Shaw.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/08f9074d-cd6e-49fb-b6ab-f65d1090d062.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"732\" height=\"682\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team news &#8211; Six Birmingham changes, four for Man Citypublished at 16:46 BST 16:46 BST Birmingham City v&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}