O'Reilly birthday brace spells doom for Arsenal at Wembley 🥳 | OneFootball

Manchester City have thrown a one-two haymaker on the Wembley pitch in the Carabao Cup final against rivals Arsenal.

Across what has been a season of contrasting fortunes between the two English giants, the pressure was on for both Mikel Arteta and his former teacher, Pep Guardiola.

After an opening 45 minutes of action that tilted the scales in favour of the Gunners, it has been a tale of two halves in the capital, with City coming out swinging since the interval.

Two goals in the space of just four minutes has shifted City into the driving seat, but the source of their goalscoring celebrations wasn't Haaland, or Semenyo, but Manchester-born and bred hero Nico O'Reilly.

In doing so, the 21-year-old England international has become the first player since Zlatan Ibrahimović (2018) to bag a brace in the League Cup final.

What a way to ring in your birthday.

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