One moment in time: Yaya's rhapsody in Blue!

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Yaya Toure's memorable moments are celebrated ahead of Manchester City's FA Cup semi-final against Southampton at Wembley.

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Yaya Toure is celebrated ahead of the FA Cup semi-final.
Manchester City faces Southampton at Wembley.
The article revisits memorable moments from Toure's career.

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One moment in time: Yaya's rhapsody in Blue!

It’s FA Cup semi-final weekend at Wembley – and ahead of City’s huge clash with Southampton for our latest dip into archives we revisit a special final four moment that holds dear to every Blue.

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We rewind the clock back to April 2011 and a seismic and defining semi-final clash with Manchester United – and one which was settled by an unforgettable piece of Yaya Toure magic.

Fittingly for such a colossus of a player, Yaya’s decisive intervention came on the biggest stage and against our arch-rivals in what was the first ever FA Cup semi-final between the two Manchester sides.

As only to be expected, the clash proved an intense, hard-fought and at times nerve-jangling affair.

With the stakes so high, it was always destined to be settled by a piece of individual brilliance – and so it proved with Yaya breaking the deadlock seven minutes into the second half.