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We will take City kids seriously: Hiddink

The future format and scheduling of the FA Cup has come under intense scrutiny of late, with calls for replays to be scrapped or ties to be played in midweek – which would have helped City this week because their advancement to the Capital One Cup final against Liverpool next Sunday has cost them another league fixture.

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City has not lost an away game in the FA Cup for six years, but that record might just be broken due to absence of a number of senior players.

The Burkina Faso global opened his Premier League account in their 5-1 victory over Newcastle United last weekend, and Hiddink is expected to use the FA Cup as an opportunity to field a number of young players. If you see kids or young players playing, they don’t worry about what’s going to happen in one hour, they play in the moment, and then they play as they should play. “I am here in the interim period and the people who are not responsible for the every day, every week stuff and games, they have the longer vision of what is the need of this club, they are in charge to do that”, he said.

“There’ll be some boys involved and I’m looking forward to seeing how they pitch themselves against top Premier League players”.

Guus Hiddink has certainly steadied the ship since coming in to replace Jose Mourinho as interim coach and he’s vowed to take the FA Cup seriously as it’s a realistic target to salvage something from what’s been a hugely disappointing season for the Blues.

“When you feel that naturally, the performance is unconditional”, he said while he described the blues” FA Cup tie with City as an “early final”.

‘They defended well but I think they were having chances Manchester City.

“You must respect every competition”. The Champions League and Premier League will take precidence for Manchester City and I think because of this Chelsea are deserved favourites.

“But you must also be intelligent and you must make the best decision for the team. It was a hard week but a useful week and I hope in the next game we’ll correct a lot of mistakes”. “We have two cups and we have supported those cups”.

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“But all the other countries in Europe have just one cup”. “This week we have worked to return to the team we normally are”. In big games, big players have to step up.

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