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FA Cup win won't save Man City, but it can spark rebuild

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For Pep Guardiola and Manchester City, a year they hope will be quickly forgotten comes full circle at Wembley on Saturday.

It was in north London 12 months ago, in a 2-1 defeat to Manchester United in the FA Cup final, that Guardiola saw the first small signs of potential trouble ahead. At the time, he put the surprise result down to his own tactical mistakes; since then, though, what looked like an isolated incident has grown into City's worst season for nearly a decade.

Guardiola and his players will return to Wembley to face Crystal Palace in another FA Cup final (stream LIVE on Saturday, 11:20 a.