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The FA Cup Fourth Round
30th Jan 2011
KO 14:00
Ground: Meadow Lane Stadium
Live: ITV1[/center]
TEAM NEWS
Notts County midfielder Alan Judge has broken a bone in his foot and could be sidelined for eight weeks.
However, the home side are hopeful centre-half Mike Edwards will return after being ruled out at Hartlepool in midweek with a hamstring injury.
City will be without England winger Adam Johnson who injured an ankle in training and will not be risked.
Striker Edin Dzeko is set to make his FA Cup debut, while Micah Richards may feature after recent back trouble.
BIG-MATCH FACTS
The tie in context
• Notts County are one of three League One clubs paired with Premier League opposition in the fourth round.
Gulf in class
• The Meadow Lane club go into the weekend, 59 places lower than Manchester City in the pecking order.
Head-to-head
• Manchester City are unbeaten in nine league and cup meetings with Notts County.
• The clubs last clashed in the second round of the League Cup at Meadow lane in September 2001, when the visitors were taken into extra time and eventually won 4-2.
• The Magpies have conceded 28 goals in their last nine matches with City. But they kept a clean sheet in their most recent victory over them in 1991, when they knocked the Mancunians out of the FA Cup for the only time in their history.
• Gary Lund was on target in County's 1-0 fifth round victory on 16 February 1991. But they could not go on and make it a double over top-flight clubs, as Tottenham beat them in the quarter-finals.
• This is the fourth time the pair have been drawn together in the competition. City have twice progressed. They prevailed in third round clashes in 1962, and in 1995 when they won 5-2 on their own patch in a replay.
The clubs
NOTTS COUNTY
Current form
• Not won in three league games, since a three-match winning sequence at the outset of 2011.
• Under Paul Ince, County have won seven, drawn three and lost five.
FA Cup form
• The 1894 winners are chasing a place in the fifth round for the second year in a row.
• Reaching the last 16 last season was their best performance in 18 years.
• They are also vying for a second successive Premier League scalp, having eliminated Sunderland 2-1 at the Stadium of Light in the third round.
MANCHESTER CITY
Current form
• Last Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa ended a seven-match unbeaten sequence of five wins and two draws.
• Still going strong on three fronts; Premier League, Europa League and FA Cup.
FA Cup form
• The four-times winners, who have not lifted the trophy since 1969, are hoping to avoid an earlier than fifth round exit for the third time in four years.
• Oldham were the last third tier club to dismiss them. The Latics prevailed 1-0 at Boundary Park in the third round in January 2005.
Match officials
Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)
Assistant referees: Scott Ledger and Glenn Turner
Fourth official: Kevin Friend
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