MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City don’t do cup upsets. Not recently, anyway.
And so, while Manchester United were dumped out of the FA Cup by Middlesbrough and both Chelsea and West Ham were made to struggle past Plymouth Argyle and Kidderminster Harriers, Pep Guardiola’s team allowed Fulham to dream for all of 92 seconds.
That was the time it took for Ilkay Gundogan to equalise after Fabio Carvalho, so close to joining Liverpool on deadline day, had put the Championship leaders ahead in the fourth minute at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. John Stones scored with a header soon afterwards before a double from Riyad Mahrez in the second half, one a penalty, completed a comfortable 4-1 victory.
“If you don’t want to believe me, don’t believe me, but I know which team we faced and which team we beat,” Guardiola said after the match. “They are one of…
