Jesus hits four as City crush Burton 9-0 in semi final

Gabriel Jesus scored four as defending champions Manchester City destroyed Burton Albion's third tier 9- 0 in their first leg semi-final League Cup, a record margin of victory in the last four.


League One Burton, managed by Nigel Clough, son of former boss Brian of Nottingham Forest, must last another 90 minutes on Jan. 23 formally book their place in the finals before the city. Hundreds of Burton fans arrived late after their busses were stuck in delays on the motorway and after this mauling, they might have liked to have turned and left home.

The city, which beat Rotherham United Championship( second tier) on Sunday 7- 0, will face the winners of the other semi-final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, which Spurs leads 1- 0 from the first leg.

Burton was supposed to have reached the level in the 12th minute, but Marcus Myers-Harness wasted a glorious chance, shooting wide when left unmarked on the back. From that moment on, the Midlands team had a painful night of damage limitation. Jesus opened his account on the half hour, heading in from close range after Leroy Sane’s shot had been blocked by keeper Bradley Collins, with the ball popping up invitingly for the Brazilian. 

Four minutes later, Jesus made it 3-0 with a low drive off the post, and then Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko added the fourth, lobbing Collins with a lofted shot of almost 30 meters. Jesus finished his hat trick in the 57th minute with a Riyadh Mahrez cross header before it was replaced by Phil Foden in the 62nd-slotting home after Collins had blocked a Jesus shot. 

The seventh — and the fourth of Jesus — was a clever flick from close range after Sane burst into the area on the left flank again. Burton was unable to defend that part of the field and even with Sane submerged, Mahrez broke into that area and Kyle Walker turned his low cross in to make it 8- 0.

After good work by Bernardo Silva, Mahrez poked in the ninth, and that was all for City, despite the crowd urging them to push for a 10th goal. The record win of the city was a 12–0 FA Cup victory over Liverpool Stanley in 1890. In 1987, the Blues beat Huddersfield Town 10- 1 in the old second division.