De Bruyne and Man City looking for a final flourish

Kevin De Bruyne is desperate to sign off Manchester City’s first season under Pep Guardiola in style – starting with this weekend’s FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal.

The Citizens head to Wembley on Sunday to take on Arsenal while De Bruyne and co are also involved in a nailbiting race for the top four in the Premier League.

The two sides met in the league last month, in a game that finished 2-2, and De Bruyne is adamant his side are raring to finish off the current campaign on a high.

They have found some fine form at the end of the season, downing Southampton 3-0 last weekend, with De Bruyne in particular impressing, and Guardiola’s side will head to Wembley full of confidence.

“It’s a semi-final and must be settled on the day, so it is do or die,” said De Bruyne. “We’ve played well away from home, scored goals, and hopefully we can play well, win this game, get to the final, and end the season with a trophy.

“Arsenal are a very tough team. We only played them a few weeks ago and of course, we ended up drawing 2-2 after leading twice, so we perhaps should have gone on and won.

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“They’ve had a difficult few weeks with results but they won at Middlesbrough on Monday and we know they will be up for this game as much as we are, and I’m certain it will be a really good game between two teams who play good football.

“They’ve had a very good FA Cup record over the past few years but that doesn’t count for anything on Sunday.

“We’re going into the game on the back of a really good performance at Southampton and we feel in good shape.

“We just want to end the season as strongly as we can in the FA Cup and in the Premier League because we still have a lot of work to do to secure a top-four finish.”