Man City 2-3 Liverpool: Luis Diaz showed off his skills in FA Cup win

Liverpool avoided a dramatic Manchester City comeback to book themselves a place in the 2022 FA Cup final with a 3-2 victory at Wembley Stadium.

The Red had raced into a stunning 3-0 lead at half-time with Ibrahima Konate continuing his rich vein of goalscoring form – having found the net home and away against Benfica – to get the party started in London.

Then, Liverpool doubled their advantage in truly bizarre circumstances when Sadio Mane essentially scored a tackle, nipping the ball out of Zack Steffen’s feet in his own six-yard box.

And by the time that the half-time whistle blew, Jurgen Klopp was truly purring because the 2020 Premier League champions strung together a delicious team move that Mane capped off with a stinging volley.

However, whatever Pep Guardiola told the Citizens in the dressing room during the 15-minute interval clearly worked a treat because the current English champions really flew out of the blocks.

In fact, they pulled themselves back into the game within minutes of the restart when Jack Grealish provided exactly the type of quick-fire goal that City needed to keep their treble hopes alive.

But Liverpool managed to stop the bleeding in the immediate aftermath and it wasn’t until the dying embers of the game that City found the net for a second time.

This time, the strike came from Bernardo Silva with 88 minutes on the clock, setting up a nerve-jangling few moments in which Fernandinho and Raheem Sterling threatened to complete an epic comeback.

But in the end, it wasn’t to be with Liverpool profiting from their early quality to reach a first FA Cup final in a decade, keeping their hopes of a historic quadruple alive as they prepare to face either Chelsea or Crystal Palace.

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