WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON — Manchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan made FA Cup history before keeping Pep Guardiola's side on track for the treble with a 2-1 win over Manchester United.
City take on Inter Milan in next weekend's Champions League final and sealed a fifth Premier League title in six seasons last month.
United are the only English team to have won the full set of league, cup and European Cup when Alex Ferguson's celebrated side completed that particular clean sweep in 1998/99.
Their ambitions to thwart their neighbours in the first cup final between the Manchester clubs got off to a nightmare start when Gundogan dispatched a sumptuous volley following Erling Haaland's knockdown after 16 seconds — the fastest goal in this showpiece, outstripping Roberto Di Matteo for Chelsea against Middlesbrough in 1997 and Louis Saha for Everton against Chelsea in 2009.
