Manchester City and West Ham have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s Premier League fixture at the Etihad. Today’s match is important for both teams but for different reasons. Pep Guardiola’s side has an opportunity to move to the top of the Premier League table ahead of Arsenal’s clash with Everton at the Hill Dickinson Stadium later this evening. An opportunity is there for City to put pressure on Mikel Arteta’s side. For West Ham, they need to start picking up points as soon as possible. Nuno Espirito Santo’s side sit 18th in the league table and are three points behind 17th-placed Leeds United.
Manchester City have a host of players unavailable for today’s match. Jeremy Doku, Rodri, Mateo Kovacic, John Stones and Oscar Bobb are ruled out of today’s match due to injury. Omar Marmoush and Rayan Ait-Nouri are unavailable due to international duty due to the African Cup of Nations.
Here are the starting lineups for today’s match.
Manchester City
Pep Guardiola has made seven changes to the team that beat Brentford in the Carabao Cup. In comes Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland. James Trafford, Nathan Ake, Abdukodir Khusanov, Divine Mukasa, Savinho and Rico Lewis drop to the bench while Oscar Bobb misses today’s match due to the hamstring injury he suffered against Brentford.
Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo Silva (C), Tijjani Reijnders, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Erling Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Ake, Savinho, Khusanov, Gray, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni, R. Heskey.
West Ham
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