Italian goalkeeper Vito Mannone said: “It will be a test at Manchester City, but a good one for us, even if they are really strong at home.
“They are scoring goals for fun and we will need to be at our best to defend really well.
"It’s going to be a tough game, but it will put something in our minds of what we’re going to do in the final.
"The defeat by Hull was the first in five league games.
“We came back from a situation where everybody was thinking we were relegated and dead, and we’ve put ourselves in a situation where we’ve got a fighting chance.”