FA Cup fourth round: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

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It was a good weekend for Amad Diallo and Son Heung-min – but a bad one for shocks and a rough one for referees

Photograph: Tony Marsh/TGS Photo/ShutterstockWho can solve the mystery of Pep Guardiola’s dropping of João Cancelo? The Portuguese’s adeptness at floating inside from full-back to give the champions an extra creative dimension made him the Manchester City manager’s Philipp Lahm. Not any more. That role has gone to Rico Lewis, 18, and Cancelo’s current fate is to watch from the bench as he has in the past three games: the Premier League wins over Tottenham and Wolves and.

If it wasn’t Jack Harrison or Luis Sinisterra marauding down the left, it was Patrick Bamford doing a Harry Kane in the middle, creating as well as shooting . Next to him the French striker Georginio Rutter, just signed from Hoffenheim for a club-record £32m, exuded confidence and kept getting into good positions, taking five shots. Leeds barely needed Rodrigo, who came on at 3-0, and didn’t miss Crysencio Summerville, who is injured.

 

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