Manchester City are on the brink of a historic victory in their semi\u2013final of the Carabao Cup against Burton Albion.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola\u2019s side need to win by three goals in the second leg to set a new record for the biggest aggregate win in the League Cup\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The reigning Premier League champions showed no mercy against their League One opponents in the first leg after thrashing them 9-0 at the Etihad.<\/p>\n
The second leg on Wednesday, live on talkSPORT 2, will all but certainly see City progress to the final but is a case of how many Burton can limit them to.<\/p>\n
The Cityzens came in for criticism for not letting up in their assault on their opponents.<\/p>\n
The current aggregate win record stands at 11 \u2013 here are the five times that feat has been achieved.<\/p>\n
The previous record was ‘just’ 8-0 on aggregate, by Southampton against Wrexham two years earlier. The Reds blew that out of the water with the first double-figure margin, winning 5-0 at home and 6-0 at St James Park with Ian Rush scoring twice in each leg.<\/p>\n
There seemed little prospect of such a rout when the Hammers won just 2-1 in the first leg but a 10-0 second leg, with four goals from a 19-year-old Tony Cottee, changed the complexion of the tie.<\/p>\n
That 12-1 aggregate was a record high until surpassed by Liverpool against Fulham in 1986. Steve McMahon scored four and missed a penalty in a 10-0 win at Anfield, with Rush and John Wark also scoring twice apiece, and a 3-2 second leg – with McMahon again on target – set a new highest aggregate.<\/p>\n
Watford got in on the act the following year with an 11-0 aggregate win over Darlington, winning 3-0 in the north-east and then 8-0 back at Vicarage Road with seven different scorers including a Peter Hetherston double.<\/p>\n
Cottee was at it again as his new employers ran riot, scoring a hat-trick in a 5-0 first-leg win in north Wales and opening the scoring in a 6-0 win at Goodison Park before strike partner Graeme Sharp took centre stage with a treble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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