O'Reilly: City hungry to feed off Carabao Cup success | OneFootball

Carabao Cup final hero Nico O’Reilly says City are now ready to take the momentum from Sunday’s Wembley success to help fuel our push for more trophies across the season finale.

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The Academy graduate delivered a man of the match display in the weekend showpiece, capped by his second half brace of headers which sealed a superb and deserved 2-0 win against Arsenal.

As well as securing the first silverware of the season for Pep Guardiola’s squad, this latest League Cup success – the ninth in City history – also augurs well looking to the defining last two months of the campaign.

For his part, O’Reilly says City are determined to take the feel-good factor from Sunday’s triumph forward into the Premier League title race with Arsenal along with our quest for success in the FA Cup where we face a quarter-final with Liverpool.

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“It’s a blow for them obviously and we need to build on it and get some momentum from this game,” said O’Reilly.

“As soon as the international break is over, we need to kick on and fight hard.

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“We’ve got a game in hand in the Premier League.

“We’ve got to play them at our place, and we are still in the FA Cup.

“Liverpool [in the quarter-final] is a tough tie; we know that so now we need to do everything we can to keep going.

“This competition is huge in English football. In the semis we beat the reigning holders [Newcastle] and then we beat a great team like Arsenal in the final.

“To play at Wembley is always amazing and special and now we need to kick on.”

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O’Reilly is just one of a phalanx of outstanding young talent who have emerged at the Club over the past 12 months or so.

The 21-year-old he said the guidance he and his fellow youngsters have received from City’s more experienced players had proved vital both on Sunday and across the season as a whole.

“We’ve got some great leaders, players who have won a lot,” O’Reilly pointed out.

“So, they definitely help us young players who haven’t been in situations like this before in title races and won many trophies.

“It’s very important to have them around.”

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City lifted the Carabao Cup for a ninth time on Sunday afternoon when Pep Guardiola’s side beat Arsenal 2-0 at Wembley.

A four-minute Nico O’Reilly brace was the difference as the top two teams in the country went head to head for the first piece of silverware in 2025/26.

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