Man City 5-0 Norwich City LIVE – Maresca’s side cruise through despite ten changes

McAidoo gets in on the act.

O’Reilly plays the ball into the middle and a brilliant dummy from Lewis allows it to roll through for McAidoo, who fires home.

Clements makes Norwich’s final change of the day.

Kvistgaarden is replaced by Schwartau.

Norwich do have the ball in the back of the net.

However, celebrations are quickly cut short as the flag goes up for offside.

Toure and McConville are sent on.

Slimane and Alves make way.

Allan is withdrawn after a goal and an assist on his City debut.

Braithwaite comes on.

Samba pokes it through for McAidoo, who is in one on one.

However, he cannot find the finish to beat the goalkeeper.

Crnac is replaced by Musaba.

The result is certainly already decided at this point, but Norwich still search for a goal that would cheer up the away fans.

Samba has his second of the night.

Ait-Nouri slips inside the Norwich box, but recovers to play it back to Samba and the youngster curls into the bottom corner.

Norwich have nothing to lose now and send men forward.

They work a good opportunity but it is blasted wide.

Allan adds a debut goal to his earlier assist.

The Brazilian drives into the box, twists inside and then out, before finding the bottom corner with his left foot.

We are back underway in the second half.

City have a commanding lead as it stands, but there is still 45 minutes to play.

Clement also makes a half-time substitution.

Maghoma replaces Diallo for the visitors.

Cherki is withdrawn at half-time and will be rested for the weekend.

McAidoo comes on in his place.

The half-time whistle goes with City in a very strong position. They improved as the time went on.

Maresca should not need to rely on his bench in the second half, and can offer full rest to those who need it.

Samba has looked really sharp and goes close again, after being played through by Cherki.

City’s superiority has begun to show in the past few minutes.

City quickly double their lead courtesy of Cherki.

Bouaddi plays the Frenchman in behind with bags of time, and he holds his nerve to slot it past the goalkeeper.

City open the scoring and it is Samba on his debut.

The cross from O’Reilly goes over everybody, but is played back in by Allan and Samba flicks a smart header into the net.

City continue to have the lion’s share of possession, but Maresca’s side are struggling to create any chances.

At the same time, Norwich have barely left their own half in the past ten minutes, and look even less like scoring.

It has been a sloppy start from the hosts, who have been careless in possession.

A slow start should perhaps be expected after ten changes, but it is also clear that many of these players have not played together before.

Samba flicks a brilliant ball through for Lewis.

He is through on goal and it is City’s best chance so far, but he fires just wide.

The visitors get forward for the first time.

However, Bouaddi and Khusanov work together to end the attack.

We are underway here!

The teams are out and ready to go.

We will be underway shortly here.

We are ten minutes away from kick-off here.

It will be Maresca’s first cup game in charge of City.