FA Cup Sixth round
Venue: City of Manchester Stadium Date: Sunday, 13 March Kick-off: 1645 GMT
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live, full match commentary on BBC Radio Manchester on 95.1FM and DAB, BBC local radio, Live on ESPN
MANCHESTER CITY
Current form
• Won four of five.
• Undefeated in six league and cup games, conceding just one goal in the process.
• The defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford on 12 February, is their only loss in 10.
• Not lost in 10 home games, since Everton's visit to Eastlands on 20 December.
FA Cup form
• Appearing in the quarter-finals for the third time in six seasons.
• The four-times winners, who have not lifted the trophy since 1969, are hoping to reach the last four for the 11th time and first since 1981, when they finished runners-up to Tottenham.
• Needed replays to knock out Leicester and Notts County in the third and fourth rounds.
• Nottingham Forest were the last Championship club to knock them out, when they were defeated 3-0 at Eastlands in the third round in January 2009.
• Their 15 goals in this cup run have been shared between 10 different scorers; Carlos Tevez and Patrick Vieira have scored three each.
READING
Current form
• Won the last three, scoring a total of nine goals.
• Undefeated in seven (W4, D3).
• Shane Long has scored seven goals in eight games, two of them in the FA Cup.
• Bidding for a third successive away win.
FA Cup form
• Knocked out Everton in the fifth round to land a place in the quarter-finals for the second season running.
• Setting their sights on eliminating a fourth top-flight club in two seasons.
• Lost to Aston Villa at this stage a year ago.
• Chasing only their second appearance in the last four. The first was in 1927.
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