Pep: Seventh FA Cup semi-final is an incredible achievement | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola described reaching a seven FA Cup semi-final as an “incredible achievement” following City’s 2-1 sixth-round victory over Bournemouth.

Goals from Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush saw his side overturn a deficit at the Vitality Stadium against dangerous opponents desperate to reach the last-four for the first time in their history.

City set the record for most semi-final appearances in a row with six last season and extended it by securing another place at Wembley.

We will face Nottingham Forest in the capital next month, with Guardiola proud to see his side secure our place yet again.

“It's an incredible achievement because it's every year, every year, every year,” the boss said following our win on the south coast.

“You know how difficult it is in the league to win a championship, but you can drop, you can lose.

“We play semi-finals coming two or three days before most of the times, playing away Champions League quarter-finals with a big disappointment being out or big success and no recovery, playing against Liverpool and Chelsea and so on.

“So it's not easy to, you know, to cope sometimes for that. Even with that, all the time we were there, so we break our own record we had last season six in a row, so now seven.

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“So it’s not easy, I'm sorry because this is what this club or this team, these legendary players have shown during a lot of time.

“This consistency, we were a machine, but this season we play more games like we play against Bournemouth the Premier League like today and that's why we don't deserve much more than we have now.

“But still we have this amazing competition ahead of us and we have, of course qualification for the Champions League. That is incredible success its really, really important.”

Guardiola added that as well as reaching the last-four, the players can take a lot of confidence from our performance.

Bournemouth are enjoying a superb season and were the first team to beat City in the Premier League in November.

But City also missed a penalty and hit the post in a strong performance against a dangerous side.

“The most important thing is that players could realise the lesson that when we are like today, wht we are like against one of the most physical teams, the players, the team with more transitions and quick and second balls,” he added.

“We coped with them. We were there and hopefully they can feel it. That is the way until the end of the season and the future of this club.”