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90 min +3: Both sets of players wandering about now. Everyone knows this is over.
90 min +2: Semenyo slaloms into the Newcastle box from the left and plays an inviting ball through the six-yard box. Nobody in blue to poke home. Cherki collects at the far stick and pulls back for Reijnders, who skies a shot from 12 yards.
90 min: Tonali hits the free kick flat. Half cleared. Gordon returns the ball, but it’s easy pickings for Trafford. Then Wissa is booked for clipping the heel of Gonzalez. There will be five additional minutes.
89 min: Willock advances down the left and goes over Cherki’s carelessly hanging leg. A free kick just to the left of the City box. If Newcastle are to dramatically force extra time, they’ll need something from this, surely. Tonali prepares to take.
87 min: The resulting free kick is sent into the mixer, and Cherki attempts to dribble his way in the 1920s style through a crowded box. He nearly makes it through everyone as well. But he can’t get a shot away, and nothing comes from a corner that follows. Cherki and Ake nevertheless embrace, laughing, enjoying the moment. City having fun now.
86 min: Semenyo jinks down the left and leads Joelinton all the way to the corner flag, then draws a frustrated foul. Joelinton couldn’t complain if he saw a second yellow, but the referee shows mercy.
84 min: City move the ball around professionally, taking care of both it and the clock.
82 min: Newcastle do a lot of huffing and puffing, but not much advancing up the pitch.
80 min: Livramento comes on for Hall.
79 min: City make a double change, swapping out Doku and Savinho for Cherki and Foden. “This is a little too docile,” sighs Chris Paraskevas. “I wouldn’t say our season is on the line but surely we can muster something better at home against a heavily rotated City, in a competition we could conceivably win.”
77 min: Willock crosses deep from the left, and earns a corner on the right. From the set piece, City stream forward on the counter. Joelinton barges into the back of Savinho, and the referee has no choice but to flash yellow.
75 min: Now it’s Hall’s turn to throw a hissy fit, as he stumbles along the right touchline like Will Osula did for his winner against Manchester United … only he doesn’t stay on his feet. He thinks O’Reilly clipped him. The referee disagrees, and there goes the head. He calms down quickly enough, to be fair.
73 min: Marmoush won’t be taking home a hat-trick ball tonight. He’s replaced by Semenyo … and earns a huge hug from his delighted manager. Pep all sweetness and light now. That full-blown tanty, thrown a mere 18 minutes ago, suddenly seems an age away.
72 min: Thiaw sends a simple pass, intended for Burn, the pair unmarked, out of play for a throw. That just about sums it up for Newcastle in this second half. But if nothing else, it allows the hosts to make another change, as Gordon comes on for Woltemade.
70 min: The City fans, up in the heavens in the Leazes, entertain themselves with the Poznan. They’re making all the noise right now. St James’ Park otherwise quite flat.
68 min: Hall advances down the right but can’t force his cross past Doku. Newcastle need something and quick, if that 71-year-long wait for their seventh FA Cup is to end this season.
67 min: This could get ugly for Newcastle. Doku sashays down the left and reaches the corner of the six-yard box. He rolls across for Savinho, but the pass isn’t quite there. Newcastle hack clear in a panic. For the sake of an inch here and there, City could have scored three in the last four minutes. They’re ripping Newcastle apart at will.
GOAL! Newcastle United 1-3 Manchester City (Marmoush 65)
Marmoush gets his goal! Nunes advances down the right channel. He chops a pass inside for Marmoush, who rips a rising rasper into the top left from the edge of the D. Unstoppable! Pep now in the throes of glee as he celebrates that screamer!
64 min: Stones, quarterbacking from deep, splits Newcastle’s defence open with a glorious reverse ball down the inside-right channel. Savinho is free! He tries to find Marmoush in the middle when he really should have shot. The pass doesn’t find its target. But no matter, because …
63 min: Newcastle make a triple change. Elanga, Trippier and Osula are replaced by Burn, Joelinton and Wissa. Hall moves over to right-back, which means Burn will be tasked with keeping Savinho quiet. Good luck with that.
62 min: … Newcastle clear their lines.
61 min: … one corner leads to another …. which leads to another … and then …
60 min: Marmoush has a whack at goal. Ramsdale parries. Reijnders tries to steer the rebound into the bottom right. Hall, unsure as to whether the ball’s going in or sailing wide, hooks backwards. He couldn’t take the risk. Thiaw slams out for a corner. From which …
59 min: In the meantime, Newcastle do a bit of probing, Willock hacking over the bar from the edge of the box.
57 min: It takes a while, but Pep eventually cools down and sits back in the dugout, laughing and joking at the absurdity of it all.
55 min: Pep is booked for a proper toddler’s tanty, screaming and spinning and removing his coat in impotent rage. It’s an over-reaction to a perceived tug back on Doku by Botman. There wasn’t much in it, so it’s all very odd.
53 min: Some loose play up the other end now. Ramsdale, Elanga and Thiaw make a meal of playing out from the back, and are very lucky that Marmoush slips when an opportunity presents itself down the inside-left channel.
52 min: O’Reilly takes a poor touch 25 yards from his own goal, gifting possession to Woltemade, who aims a shot towards the top right. But there’s not enough pace, not enough whip. Easy for Trafford.
50 min: … so having said that, Savinho romps past Hall again, cuts in from the right, and tries a curler that goes out for a throw on the other side. That’s showbiz.
49 min: Well, that didn’t take long. Savinho is almost unplayable tonight. Marmoush, you’ll have noted, didn’t try to replicate his no-shoot shot.
GOAL! Newcastle United 1-2 Manchester City (Marmoush 47)
Nope, they don’t fancy extra time all right. Savinho dribbles down the right. He’s got the beating of Hall but finds Nunes on the overlap. Nunes crosses low. Marmoush, a couple of yards out, can’t miss. He traps and slams home.
46 min: City are on the front foot again immediately. Within a minute, O’Reilly fires a low cross in from the left. Marmoush traps on the penalty spot but can’t get a shot in because Woltemade tracks back and stops him. A very early sign that City don’t fancy extra time.
Manchester City get the second half started. No changes. A reminder that this fifth-round tie will go to extra time and penalties if required.
Half-time postbag. “For some reason we dropped very deep after a high octane start. For me the midfield is lacking a bit of bite, and maybe Joelinton can help us get up the park. Apparently he’s already squared off with Kolo Toure on the bench. Actually, I hope the cameras just focus on that during the 2nd half” – Chris Paraskevas
“I reckon that Savinho goal is absolutely peak Pep: ‘I want you to score without taking a shot’ ” – Martin Gamage
Half-time ad break. The Guardian has kicked off a new chapter in puzzles with the launch of its first daily football game, On the ball. It is now live in the app for both iOS and Android … so what are you waiting for?
HALF TIME: Newcastle United 1-1 Manchester City
That flew by. Great entertainment. A half of two halves, with Newcastle dominant for a while, before City decided the best form of defence is attack, and piled forward accordingly. More please!
45 min: Some dugout action, as City assistant manager Kolo Toure is booked for his part in a philosophical back-and-forth with Newcastle sub Joelinton. There will be one additional first-half minute.
44 min: Hall slide-tackles to whip the ball away from Savinho. The ball gets stuck under his arms as he falls on all fours. City claim a penalty but they’re not getting one. Then Reijnders meets a ball dropping over his shoulder and slices it wide right. Newcastle really need this half-time whistle.
43 min: Newcastle are punch-drunk. They’re desperate to hear the half-time whistle and regroup.
41 min: Ramsdale, stunned at this sudden turnaround in momentum, dithers with the ball at his feet. He’s stripped by Marmoush, who cuts back for O’Reilly. Ramsdale is extremely fortunate that O’Reilly doesn’t go direct for the unguarded net, pausing and winning a corner, which is wasted. But Newcastle are suddenly all over the show!
40 min: Savinho, now an artist in motion. He glides down the right and cuts back for Reijnders, who steams into the box and sends a low shot across Ramsdale and inches wide of the left-hand post.
GOAL! Newcastle United 1-1 Manchester City (Savinho 39)
This is an absurd goal. Doku drops a shoulder to dribble past Trippier down the left. He fires a low ball through the six-yard box. Ramsdale misses it. Savinho, rooted to the spot six yards out, at 45 degrees towards the goal, computes the angles, remains stock still, lets the ball hit him, and doesn’t move an inch as it bobbles slowly towards the line and over it. Mere mortals would have made a panicked lunge towards the ball to ensure it went in. Not this cool dude, the artist simply admiring his work. Can you showboat without moving a muscle? If so, Savinho’s just done it!
38 min: Still no space in that final third for City, but Newcastle are being forced to punt clear again and again, and the visitors keep coming back. And then …
36 min: Manchester City are dominating possession now, but they can’t find any space in Newcastle’s final third.
34 min: Doku, plying his trade up the other end now, slips a ball down the channel for Reijnders to race onto. The midfielder extends a leg and pokes the ball goalwards, but he’s stretching at his limit, and can’t get any power behind the poke. Ramsdale deals with it.
33 min: Elanga’s delivery is flat and hopeless. The ball’s half-cleared towards Hall on the left. Hall swings in a dangerous-looking diagonal, but it flies out of play for a goal kick, and it might have been the case that Newcastle had half of their team offside anyway.
