{"id":646902,"date":"2026-05-16T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:22:13","slug":"chelsea-vs-manchester-city-fa-cup-final-confirmed-lineups-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646902\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs. Manchester City, FA Cup Final: Confirmed lineups; how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to the 2025-26 FA Cup final! Chelsea are the clear underdogs, with City favored to win yet another game against the Blues. They have not lost to us since the 2021 Champions Leauge final: 13 matches and counting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Calum McFarlane may have a tactical surprise in mind, like three at the back? We\u2019ll see how this one shakes out. Neither Pedro Neto nor Alejandro Garnacho have been passed fit, but they\u2019re both on the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chelsea starting lineup (3-4-2-1?)<br \/>S\u00e1nchez | Hato, Colwill, Fofana | Cucurella, Caicedo, James (c), Gusto | Enzo, Palmer | Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Substitutes from: J\u00f6rgensen, Acheampong, Tosin, Chalobah, Essugo, Santos, Neto, Garnacho, Delap<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Manchester City starting XI:<br \/>Trafford | Nunes, Khusanov, Gu\u00e9hi, O\u2019Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo (c), Semenyo, Marmoush, Doku, Haaland<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Substitutes from: Donnarumma, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Ak\u00e9, Kova\u010di\u0107, Cherki, Savinho, Foden<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Date \/ Time: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 15.00 BST; 10am EDT; 7:30pm IST<br \/>Venue: Wembley Stadium, London<br \/>Referee: Darren England (on pitch); Peter Bankes (VAR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On TV: BBC One, TNT Sports 1 (UK); ESPN2 (USA); Sony TEN 2 (India); SuperSport MaXimo 2, Canal+ Sport 3 (NGA); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livesoccertv.com\/match\/chelsea-vs-manchester-city\/17q8a#5622686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere<\/a><br \/>Streaming: BBC iPlayer, discover+ (UK); ESPN Select (USA); Sony LIV (India); DStv Now (NGA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the 2025-26 FA Cup final! Chelsea are the clear underdogs, with City favored to win yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[218912,99],"class_list":["post-646902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea-fc-fa-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}