Pep Guardiola welcomes showdown with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Man Utd in FA Cup fifth round

Pep Guardiola insists he’d welcome an FA Cup fifth round clash with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s resurgent Manchester United.

Manchester City’s 5-0 win against Burnley made it 29 goals without reply since they last conceded.

It is also eight straight wins for the Premier League champions – equalling Solskjaer’s record since taking over at Old Trafford last month.

Guardiola made it clear he will continue his pursuit of an unprecedented quadruple and is ready to take on all-comers – including fierce rivals United.

“What is important is to be in there,” said the City manager. “I know with United, they’ve won eight in a row and are doing so good. But we are going to face a team and try to do better than we did last season.

“We went out against Wigan last year, so hopefully this time we can get into the quarters and then Wembley again.”

City look unstoppable at the moment and have gone on a scoring spree since Roberto Firmino’s goal in the 2-1 win against Liverpool at the start of the month.

Gabriel Jesus, Bernardo Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, Sergio Aguero and a Kevin Long own goal secured their latest rout.

Guardiola’s thoughts are now back on catching leaders Liverpool.

“It’s our eighth game in a row of winning,” said the Catalan. “We played against a League One and Championship teams, but even in that position you have to score and it’s not easy.

“The results before Liverpool were incredible - now we are a little bit there. We’ll see what happens in the next four, five, six games to see if we can catch them, but we analyse game by game.

“We create chances - everybody’s commitment is there. We are always they are there and that’s the point.”