This was the first ever meeting between the Blues and the Grecians and it featured a debut for both new signing Antoine Semenyo and academy graduate Ryan McAidoo with fellow homegrown ace Max Alleyne also starting at the Etihad.
The reward for victory was a place in the hat for the fourth round of the world’s oldest cup competition which we have won seven times in our history.
City’s record in the FA Cup on home soil over the last decade is quite remarkable heading into this one - having won all 15 games we’ve played, scoring 65 goals.
The last side to have a longer home winning run were Liverpool between 1939 and 1955 with 16 in a row which is a record for a League club in the FA Cup while the all-time record is 17 in a row by Clapham Rovers between 1873 and 1881 before the League was formed.
How would this one play out against the League One side managed by Gary Caldwell?
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