Manchester City have capitalised on the sixth-minute sending-off of Fulham's US defender Tim Ream to sweep to a 4-0 win over the second-tier side and reach the last 16 of the FA Cup.
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Ream brought down Gabriel Jesus in the penalty area and was shown a straight red card, with City scoring from the resulting spot kick through Ilkay Gundogan and going on to dominate Sunday's game at Etihad Stadium.
However, despite monopolising possession and creating chance after chance, the defending champions only added one goal - in the 19th minute through Bernardo Silva - before a late double from Jesus.
Silva's strike from outside the area took City to 100 goals in all competitions this season - the first team in Europe's top five leagues to get to that milestone.
The Brazil striker headed in Joao Cancelo's right-wing cross in the 72nd minute, before nodding in from close range after Phil Foden's shot was saved by busy Fulham goalkeeper Marek Rodak.
Jesus, playing ahead of Sergio Aguero in a team missing many of City's first-choice players, took his tally to 16 goals for the season on an afternoon when he could easily have scored a hat-trick.
Later on Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool face potentially testing away games against lower-league opposition in the fourth round.
United takes on third-tier Tranmere on the hosts' heavily sanded field, before a likely second-string Liverpool line-up play Shrewsbury, also of League One.
Australian Associated Press