Gianluigi Donnarumma will make his Manchester Metropolis debut in at present’s derby on the Etihad Stadium.
The Italian goalkeeper, who joined from Paris Saint-Germain on the finish of the switch window, is certainly one of 5 adjustments for the sport towards Manchester United.
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Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku all come into the facet that misplaced at Brighton earlier than the worldwide break.
Children Stephen Mfuni and Divine Mukasa are on the bench with seven former Academy gamers a part of the matchday squad.
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CITY XI: Donnarumma, Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodrigo, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Foden, Doku, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni
UNITED XI: Bayindir, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Yoro, Shaw, Dorgu, Ugarte, Fernandes, Mbeumo, Amad, Seso.
Subs: Heaton, Lammens, Fredricson, Heaven, Leon, Maguire, Casemiro, Mainoo, Zirkzee.
Gianluigi Donnarumma will change into the eighth Metropolis participant to make his Premier League bow in a Manchester derby and the third goalkeeper after Andreas Isaksson in 2006 and Claudio Bravo in 2016.
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5 of the earlier seven debutants ended up on the successful facet, though it might be a giant ask to change into the primary to attain since present former striker a Georgia president Mikhail Kavelashvili in 1996!
Goalkeepers have been the speaking level forward of kick-off with Senne Lammens becoming a member of United throughout the summer time switch window.
It might have been the primary time in 18 years that two goalkeepers each made their debuts in a Premier League, excluding opening weekend video games, however Lammens is on the bench for the guests.
Neither facet have been in nice form within the opening weeks of the marketing campaign with Metropolis dropping two of our first three Premier League matches for the primary time since 2004/05.
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It’s some time since United have gone right into a derby forward of us within the desk, though they’ve misplaced two of their opening 4 matches, together with a Carabao Cup defeat to League Two facet Grimsby City.
So it is perhaps higher to have a look at people and, after all, Erling Haaland could be very hardly ever out of shape.
The Norwegian has three in three Premier League video games and throughout the worldwide break he scored 5 within the win over Moldova, in addition to claiming two assists.
With six targets in eight appearances towards United, together with a hat-trick, Haaland might hopefully be our talisman once more.
Metropolis have received 5 of our final eight Premier League matches towards United, although we didn’t win final season for the primary time since 2020/21.
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United have inflicted 1 / 4 of Pep Guardiola’s whole residence Premier League defeats as Metropolis supervisor, with the guests successful 4 occasions on the Etihad towards the Catalan. They’re in search of consecutive wins on the Etihad for the primary time since March 2021.
Since 2015/16, the house workforce has ended on the successful facet in simply six out of 20 Premier League conferences within the Manchester derby. Certainly, since then, the one Premier League fixture to see extra away wins is Crystal Palace vs Liverpool.
United registered their eighth win in 30 Premier League matches below Ruben Amorim due to their 3-2 win over newly-promoted Burnley of their final sport. Half of Amorim’s wins have been towards promoted sides, with the Portuguese supervisor holding only a 16% win ratio towards sides not promoted to the division that marketing campaign.
Pep Guardiola has misplaced 49 of his 345 Premier League matches, with 22% of these coming because the begin of final November. A defeat on this sport would see him take the second largest variety of video games to lose 50, behind Sir Alex Ferguson, whose fiftieth defeat wasn’t till his 367th match.
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United have had 58 photographs within the Premier League this season, 14 greater than some other facet. It’s their most photographs within the first three video games of a season since 2017/18.
United have made probably the most off-ball runs in behind their opponent’s defensive position within the Premier League this season (131), with ahead Bryan Mbeumo answerable for 54 of these – probably the most of any participant. Three of the 5 most in-behind runs by a participant in a match thus far in 2025/26 have been Mbeumo, with a excessive of twenty-two towards Burnley final trip.
Bruno Fernandes has created probably the most probabilities within the Premier League this season thus far each total (12) and in open play (8). Fernandes has additionally scored in every of United’s final three wins towards Metropolis within the competitors (March 2021, January 2023, December 2024).