Raheem Sterling's double sent Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals as they beat Oxford United 3-1 on Wednesday night.

With Mikel Arteta in the dugout alongside Pep Guardiola -A swift counter-attack saw Phil Foden - making his third successive start - spring Cancelo, who drove into the box then saw his shot take a hefty deflection Elliott Moore and beat the helpless Jordan Archer.

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Almost right from the restart, Oxford managed to haul themselves level - albeit in somewhat controversial circumstances. Shandon Baptiste took a free-kick quickly with the ball still rolling, but the officials did not spot it as he fed Taylor, who beat his marker before finishing low into the bottom corner.

Despite his reported talks to become Arsenal manager this week - City took the lead midway through the first half at the Kassam Stadium as Joao Cancelo struck, before Matty Taylor levelled proceedings for the League One side just after the break.

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City responded quickly, though, as Sterling struck twice to put the tie to bed, sending the defending back-to-back champions through to the last four, where they will face Manchester United over two legs in January.

Oxford gave a fine account of themselves in the first half and were slightly unfortunate in the way they fell behind.

Source: skysports.com