After a rousing fightback - aided by a questionable penalty - Leicester flopped to a tame exit, with Vardy and Mahrez’s missing in the shootout. Guardiola is ecstatic, especially with his rookies, most of whom performed very well - especially Zinchenko and, because of a very composed penalty in the shootout on his senior debut, Nmecha. Man City were beatable today, yet remain invincible in England this season.

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Mahrez, with a stuttering run up, sends a weak shot down the middle ... and Bravo saves! Leicester 3-4 Man City

Vardy, who scored at the end of normal time, blasts wide! Leicester 3-4 Man City

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Jesus, who misses against Spurs at the weekend, gets it right here. Leicester 3-4 Man City

Nmecha, a 19-year-old on his debut, sends the keeper the wrong and scores masterfully! Leicester 3-3 Man City

Iborra nets neatly despite a good attempted save by Bravo. Leicester 3-2 Man City

Maguire bangs it low into the corner. Leicester 2-2 Man City

Toure makes no mistake! Leicester 1-2 Man City

Gundogan dinks one into the bottom corner as Hamer goes the other way. Leicester 1-1 Man City

Fuchs fires high into the top corner! 1-0 to Leicester

Leicester will go first ....

I would be very interested to hear Pep Guardiola’s take on the theory that shootouts are a lottery. I suspect and hope that he finds it offensive.

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A penalty shootout looms! Will Guardiola ask any of the youngsters to step up?

ET 30 min: Man City threaten to snatch qualifiation at the death, but Toure’s curler from 25 yards is easily saved by Hamer. There will be at least one more minute, that’s all.

ET 29 min: Maguire strides forward from half-way and then tries to drop a pass on to the boot of Vardy, who had peeled wide to the right. Vardy tries to volley home from nine yards. But he mis-hits his shot. Leicester are well on top now. Can they find a later winner? And how much time will the ref add on this time, bearing in mind he found eight minutes at the end of normal time?

ET 26 min: Mahrez threads a nice low pass into the path of Vardy, who goes down in the box under pressure from Danilo. Penalty!? No, the ref waves away the appeals. It seemed to be the correct decision at first look, as Danilo didn’t appear to be make any contact despite an ungainly lunge.

ET 25 min: Mahrez wriggles away from Zinchenko down the right and then fizzes in a curling shot from the corner of the box. Bravo bats it away...

ET 24 min: Both managers are standing on the sidelines, gesticulating in ways that their players may or may not understand.

ET 22: Walker gives the ball away deep in his own half. Gray plays a snappy one-two with Vardy and closes in on a shot ... but Walkers whizzes back and pokes the ball out for a corner!

Leicester substitution: Benalouane on, Dragovic off. That is, er, presumably for the penalty shootout.

Et 20 min: Nmecha makes a strong run into the Leicester box and then tries to pick out Jesus. But Iborra makes a timely intervention. Man City regain the ball and recycle it to Zinchenko, who tries a shot from 25 yards. It’s a powerful, swirling effort and flies only inches over the bar!

ET 18 min: Excellent tackle by Nmecha on Okazaki.

ET 17 min: A scrappy, low-fi start to the second period.

Leicester were the more dangerous in the first half; but this could be headed for a shootout, just like Man City’s tie against Wolves in the last round.

ET 15+1 min: Toure curls the ball over the wall. Its a good effort, but Hamer flies across goal to save quite comfortably.

ET 15 min: Maguire booked for clattering into Dele-Bashiru. Freekick to Man City about 25 yards out. A perfect opportunity for Toure to remind everyone that he’s still on the pitch ...

ET 13 min: I’ve just remembered Yaya Toure is on the pitch.

ET 12 min: Bravo takes a touch to control a pass back right in front of his goal ... and before he knows it, Vardy is on top of him! The ball ricochets off the striker ... and trickles just wide!

ET 10 min: Zinchenko, who has taken his opportunity to impress today, wins a freekick down the left, about 18 yards shy of the corner flag. Gundogan floats over a in-swinger. Iborra nods it back out.

ET 9 min: Mahrez curls a freekick to the back post. Maguire sends a downward header several yards wide.

ET 7 min: Mahrez is having a party. He’s jinking and teasing his way into the box, looking for an opening while also daring Man City players to try tackling him, at the risk of bringing him down. Eventually, and under much duress, Man City players manage to shoo him away.

ET 5 min: Walker is shown a yellow card after going down in the box under a tackle by Dragovic. And it was the right decision, even if you can understand Walker trying it on after the penalty that was given against him earlier. Two wrongs just make one wrong bigger.

ET 4 min: Walker shows his speed and alertness to reach the ball before Okazaki after a slip by Adarabioyo hinted at an opening for Leicester. Meanwhile, Arsenal are the first team into the semi-final of this season’s League Cup: they’ve beaten West Ham 1-0 today.

ET 2 min: Walker flies down the right and chips in a lovely cross to the near post. Jesus, leaning back, gets a nice header on it, but Hamer makes a comfortable save.

ET 1: Man City do the honours. Danilo, by the way, was booked for protesting against the award of that late penalty.

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