Manchester City and Bournemouth have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s Premier League fixture at the Etihad Stadium. Pep Guardiola’s side enters today’s match in eighth place on the Premier League table after yesterday’s results. They will be eager to pick up three points to keep pace with league leaders Arsenal. They will face a Bournemouth side who have made a flying start to the season and sit second on the league table. A fascinating match awaits at the Etihad today.
Pep Guardiola confirmed on Friday that Rodri and Erling Haaland are available for today’s match. Rodri has been out due to injury since Manchester City’s 1-nil win over Brentford at the GTech Community Stadium at the beginning of October. Erling Haaland was rested for Manchester City’s midweek Carabao Cup fourth-round tie win over Swansea. It seems that Mateo Kovacic is the only City player who is in doubt for today’s match, as per Pep Guardiola’s update on Friday.
Here are the starting lineups ahead of today’s match at the Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City
Pep Guardiola has made eight changes to starting lineup that beat Swansea at the Swansea.com Stadium. Nico, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku are the only three players who start today’s match who started Manchester City’s win over Swansea.
Mateo Kovacic is not in the Manchester City matchday squad for today’s match.
Starting lineup: Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Silva, Foden, Cherki, Doku, Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Rodri, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Lewis.
Bournemouth
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