Pre-match reading

Sergio Aguero has not recovered from injury, so Gabriel Jesus starts in attack for City. Glenn Murray starts for Brighton.

Manchester City (4-3-3) Ederson; Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Mendy; De Bruyne, Gundogan, D Silva; B Silva, Jesus, Sterling.
Substitutes: Muric, Danilo, Stones, Fernandinho, Sane, Foden, Mahrez.

Brighton (4-3-3) Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo; Stephens, Propper, Bissouma; Knockaert, Murray, Jahanbakhsh.
Substitutes: Button, Bruno, Bong, Burn, Izquierdo, Locadia, Andone.

Referee Anthony Taylor.

One last push. One last push to achieve something unique in the history of football. Yep, Brighton are two games away from doing the Single, and becoming the first Brighton team to win a major cup competition. (No, the Sussex Royal Ulster Charity Cup wins of 1960 and 1961 doesn’t count.)

That’s the good news. The bad news is that we’re all going to die eventually. Oh, and that the first of those two games is against Pep Guardiola’s remarkable Manchester City, a team that have scored 61 goals in cup competitions alone this season.

From afar, it looks like Mission: Nah. But Swansea might have beaten City had VAR been used in the quarter-final, while Chelsea took them to penalties in the Carabao Cup final in February. If Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy defend like never before; if Mat Ryan reminds us why he’s one of the most underrated players in the Premier League; and if Glenn Murray is as Glenn Murray does, then they might just pull it off.

If not, City will move one game closer to the quadruple and nobody will bat an eyelid. Where’s the fun in that?

Kick off is at 5.30pm. The winners will play Watford or Wolves in the final.