Pep Guardiola has made eight modifications to his Metropolis aspect for this afternoon’s Premier League conflict with Bournemouth.
Nico, Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki, man of the match in Wales, are the one gamers to begin at Swansea Metropolis in midweek and hold their place for this one.
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Andoni Iraola’s Cherries presently sit second within the Premier League with 18 factors from 9 video games, whereas Metropolis can leapfrog them with a win on this one.
Groups
CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Foden, Cherki, Doku, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Rodri, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Lewis
BOURNEMOUTH XI: Petrovic, Jimenez, Diakite, Senesi, Truffert, Scott, Adams, Tavernier, Brooks (C), Semenyo, Kroupi
Subs: Dennis, Cook dinner, Evanilson, Christie, Gannon-Doak, Smith, Kluivert, Adli, Milosavljevic
Techniques
Gianluigi Donnarumma can be protected by a again 4, with Matheus Nunes and Nico O’Reilly at full-back and Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias by the center.
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It seems Nico and Bernardo Silva can be tasked with holding the midfield collectively.
Jeremy Doku, Phil Foden and Rayan Cherki may have freedom to roam forward of them in help of Erling Haaland.
Formidable type
We’ve got received all eight of our Premier League house video games towards Bournemouth in top-flight historical past, solely Manchester United (16/16 v Luton) and Metropolis ourselves (9/9 v Swansea) have a greater 100% house win charge towards an opponent.
In these eight video games, we’ve scored 31 objectives and conceded simply 5.
Final season’s go to noticed our Objective of the Season winner, with Omar Marmoush discovering the highest nook from lengthy vary.
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The 2023/24 version was maybe Jeremy Doku’s most interesting day in a Metropolis shirt thus far, scoring as soon as and laying on 4 assists in a 6-1 rout.
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Phil Foden’s place within the beginning XI means he’ll make his two hundredth Premier League look.
Doing so at simply 25 years and 158 days, he’s the youngest participant ever to achieve that determine for Metropolis.
This can be his 330th sport in complete for his boyhood Blues.
Having already received an astonishing 18 main honours and grow to be one among simply 20 males to web 100 occasions for Metropolis, there’s little question our Academy graduate is already a membership legend.
Match stats
Bournemouth have misplaced 15 of their 16 Premier League video games towards Manchester Metropolis, with the exception a 2-1 win on the Vitality Stadium final season.
We’ve got misplaced three Premier League video games this season. It’s the primary time we’ve misplaced as many as three of their opening 9 video games in a marketing campaign since 2013/14, once we went on to win our second Premier League title.
Bournemouth are on the longest unbeaten run of any present Premier League aspect, going with out defeat in eight video games since their opening day loss at Liverpool. Their 18 factors from 9 video games is their finest begin to a top-flight marketing campaign.
We’re averaging 13.7 pictures per sport within the Premier League this season, our lowest common throughout a single marketing campaign since 2007/08 (11.1).
Bournemouth have scored extra objectives from outdoors the field than every other aspect within the Premier League this season (6), with Marcus Tavernier scoring straight from a nook towards Nottingham Forest final day out.
We’re the one aspect within the Premier League this season to spend greater than half of our sport time in a profitable place (51.3%). Nonetheless, Bournemouth have spent the fewest time trailing each general (98m 13s) and as a share of sport time (10.9%) this season.
19-year-old Eli Kroupi has scored in every of his final three Premier League appearances for Bournemouth. Solely three youngsters have ever scored in 4+ consecutive video games within the competitors Robbie Fowler (3 occasions in 1994-95), Nicolas Anelka (twice in 1998-99) and Francis Jeffers (August/September 2000).