The starting lineups are in ahead of Manchester City's clash with Manchester United
Manchester City and Manchester United have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium. Today’s derby is a crucial Premier League fixture for both teams. Each side has begun the 25/26 season slowly, and victory today could be the catalyst for either team to kick on.
From a Manchester City point of view, Pep Guardiola’s side enters today’s match off the back of successive defeats to Tottenham and Brighton. There were positives for City to take from both games. But they didn’t pick up any points, so that tells the story of those two matches.
Manchester City enter today’s match with several players unavailable due to injury. Rayan Cherki is out with a thigh injury. The French international is expected to be out for two months. Omar Marmoush sustained a knee injury while playing for Egypt in their nil-all draw with Burkina Faso. He likely be out be out until the next international break. Rayan Ait-Nouri is expected to be out for five weeks due to the ankle/foot injury he sustained against Tottenham. Mateo Kovacic is recovering from Achilles surgery and his return isn’t far away. John Stones is also in doubt for today’s match due to an unspecified fitness issue.
Here are the starting lineups for today’s Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City
Pep Guardiola has made five changes to the team that lost 2-1 to Brighton. In comes Gianluigi Donnarumma, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku. Rayan Ait-Nouri, John Stones and Omar Marmoush are out due to injury. James Trafford and Oscar Bobb drop to the bench.
Starting lineup: Donnarumma, Khusanov, Ruben Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo Silva (C), Reijnders, Foden, Doku, Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni.
Manchester United