Manchester City playing the kids against Chelsea had Twitter in a complete tizzy

Is this Manuel Pellegrini's way of saying he doesn't care what happens in the rest of his Manchester City reign?

The Chilean manager will be replaced by Pep Guardiola in the summer, though the club are still fighting for honours on four fronts. In what many considered an attempt to reduce this number to three, Pellegrini gave full debuts to no fewer than six youngsters in the FA Cup fifth round trip to Chelsea. https://twitter.com/MCFC/status/701422102260350976

Some City fans were happy to see their youngsters given a chance

https://twitter.com/julianulian/status/701427956049125376

While others weren't quite so delighted.

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/701424408011939840

The upcoming game against Dynamo Kiev, followed by Sunday's League Cup final, seem to have played a part

https://twitter.com/OfficialDjDel/status/701433202636943364

Experts were doing some quick mental maths

https://twitter.com/jacklang/status/701421955510099969

We were told there were a few names to look out for

https://twitter.com/_PaulHayward/status/701446415772471296

And they were on to something

https://twitter.com/FootyAccums/status/701445492144787456

The youngsters might have run out of steam in the second half, but they gave a good account of themselves

https://twitter.com/Krap_Curl/status/701442548901027843 https://twitter.com/itsHarryWills/status/701457230806261760 https://twitter.com/City_Sean/status/701458445992595457

In fact, the biggest complaints were about the more experienced players

https://twitter.com/TheDaisyCutter1/status/701443047549173761 We surely haven't seen the last of plenty of these City players, even if Chelsea had too much for them in the end.