Guardiola has an impressive FA cup record with two title wins, 45 games won, one drawn and only seven lost.

He has the best win percentage of any top division manager, winning 85% of his 53 total games. The next closest contender, Thomas Tuchel, has only been in 12 FA Cup games with 80% of those games won.

Callum McFarlane has been in charge of a total of 5 games in his managerial career.

Guardiola has won more trophies than McFarlane has managed games - but if he can pull of what will be an upset against one of the greatest managers of all time, it will be the biggest day of his career.

Only Manchester City (16) have won more games at the new Wembley Stadium as a neutral venue than Chelsea (15) since it opened in 2007.

Chelsea will be hoping to level that score today.

In another era, Calum McFarlane’s appearance at Wembley would be viewed as a vintage piece of FA Cup lore. Here he is on English football’s national day, with the chance to be the first English manager to win the competition since Harry Redknapp in 2008, and in just his sixth game as a coach.

Donning the suit for the final was an image that so many managers long dreamed of. Brian Clough famously only got to do it two years from retirement, and never won the FA Cup. A novice like McFarlane now stands 90 minutes from glory, with the challenge of having to out-coach a great like Pep Guardiola only adding to the story.

Chelsea wins: 79

Man City wins: 69

The pair of Premier League legends identified that Chelsea will have to be patient and wait for their opportunities to go back at City and be clinical in the final third.

Gerrard said: “Those are going to be Chelsea’s moments to go and hurt city the other way because city attack with so many numbers.”

Cole agreed: “For me, that’s the only way Chelsea can win”

Pep and his men have already won the Carabao cup this season, beating their prem title rivals Arsenal 1-0.

They return to Wembley to try and collect their second domestic trophy this season and third FA cup in what could be Guardiola’s final season with the club.

A treble is still not out of the question, but two points behind with two games left in the Premier League, a focus on lifting every available trophy to end the season as successfully as possible, will be paramount for City.

The Blues have not won a domestic trophy since their FA Cup Triumph in 2018, beating Manchester United 1-0.

Strangely, however, they have won three European trophies in that time - the Europa League in 2019, the Champions League in 2021 and the Conference League last year.

Since the 2020-21 Champions League final, when Chelsea beat City 1-0 courtesy of a Kai Havertz goal, they have not beaten their FA Cup final opponents in any of their 13 games in all competitions.

Marc Guehi stands on the brink of a rare double in the FA Cup. He has, however, already completed one. Few can testify more to the highs and lows the oldest competition of them all offers, the combination of ecstasy and ignominy.

In consecutive appearances in the competition, the England defender helped inflict one of the greatest shocks in an FA Cup final and then suffered one of the biggest in any round. Guehi’s return to Wembley on Saturday is complicated, and not merely because he faces his former club Chelsea.