Pep Guardiola has made three modifications to his beginning line-up forward of what’s going to be his 1,000th sport in administration as Metropolis host Liverpool.
Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva and Rayan Cherki are available in whereas John Stones, Tijjani Reijnders and Savinho, who all began towards Borussia Dortmund, drop to the bench for this afternoon’s 16:30 (UK) kick-off on the Etihad.
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It is the identical XI that confronted Bournemouth in our final Premier League sport.
Bernardo is captain for in the present day’s conflict.
The Blues are third within the Premier League desk however victory would see us leapfrog Chelsea and transfer into second 4 factors behind leaders Arsenal.
TEAMS
CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Foden, Cherki, Doku, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Bobb, Lewis
TACTICS
Gianluigi Donnarumma is between the sticks and guarded by a again 4 of Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol and Nico O’Reilly.
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Nico will proceed within the anchoring position after impressing enormously of late alongside Bernardo Silva.
Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku will interchange within the areas behind talisman Haaland.
PEP LANDMARK
Pep Guardiola in the present day hits a landmark 1,000 video games as a supervisor.
It means the boss might be getting into the LMA Corridor of Fame.
To mark the achievement, within the build-up to in the present day’s Liverpool sport, Guardiola was proven video messages from fellow managers who’ve reached that tally, together with the likes of Arsene Wenger, Roy Hodgson, David Moyes, Rafa Benitez, Steve Bruce and Tony Pulis.
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Among the many commendations, Moyes praised Pep for his ‘outstanding profession’, Bruce hailed the boss as ‘the actual deal’ whereas Wenger burdened that the supervisor had introduced ‘quite a lot of pleasure’ to soccer supporters.
His biggest rival, Jurgen Klopp, additionally despatched heartfelt congratulations, saying: “They have been essentially the most troublesome video games however the video games I loved essentially the most since you are an inspiration to all of us.”
Beautiful phrases for a vastly spectacular achievement.
100 up for Haaland?
Erling Haaland is on the verge of getting into the Premier League 100 Membership.
The 100 Membership is an unique and iconic group of gamers who’ve scored a century of targets within the Premier League.
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There are 34 inductees at current – with Haaland near changing into the thirty fifth having netted 98 targets in 107 Premier League appearances up to now.
If he scores a brace in the present day towards Liverpool, he’ll turn into the quickest participant to 100 targets in Premier League historical past, with Alan Shearer the present quickest to 100 in 124 matches.
It’s by no means a simple problem dealing with or scoring towards Liverpool, who’re reigning Premier League champions.
However Haaland has netted in every of his two appearances towards the Reds on the Etihad, scoring within the League Cup again in December 2022 and within the Premier League in November 2023.
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We’d love a pair extra this afternoon – and we’re positive Erling would too.
Our Remembrance activations will happen in the present day for the go to of Liverpool to the Etihad Stadium on Remembrance Sunday.
Previous to the match, a service will happen within the Membership’s Memorial Backyard, the place Mike Summerbee will lay a wreath alongside members of the Former Gamers Affiliation and the Membership’s Chaplain.
Then, forward of kick-off, supervisor Pep Guardiola will lay a wreath pitch facet adopted by a efficiency of the Final Publish and a minute’s silence, noticed by all in attendance.
All our Males’s First Group will put on a poppy on their shirts, and people worn by Metropolis gamers throughout the sport might be donated and auctioned through Match Worn Shirt, with proceeds going to the Royal British Legion to boost cash for the charity, as will the shirts worn by Metropolis gamers throughout the earlier weekend’s residence fixture towards Bournemouth.
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MATCH STATS
Metropolis have received 10 of our final 12 Premier League video games towards reigning champions (D1 L1), most just lately a 4-1 victory towards Liverpool at Anfield in February 2021.
Because the begin of April, Metropolis have received essentially the most factors within the Premier League (42), profitable 13 of 19 video games (D3 L3), whereas we’ve received 9 of our ten on the Etihad in that point (L1).
Liverpool put an finish to their 4 sport dropping run within the Premier League by beating Aston Villa 2-0. Nevertheless, the Reds have misplaced their final three away from residence and haven’t misplaced 4 on the bounce on their travels since April 2012 beneath Kenny Dalglish.
Going into MD11, two of the 5 gamers to have created 20+ probabilities within the Premier League this season are Man Metropolis duo Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku (each 20). It’s each Doku’s (3.3) and Foden’s (2.9) finest seasons for likelihood creation per 90 minutes within the competitors (minimal 250 minutes performed).
Metropolis have received 9 of our final ten Premier League residence video games (L1), together with every of our final 4 since a 0-2 loss to Spurs.
Metropolis are unbeaten in our final 12 residence Premier League video games having additionally performed at residence in Europe in midweek (W8 D4) since a 1-2 loss to Chelsea in Could 2021 (beat PSG 2-0 at residence in midweek).
Liverpool have misplaced 5 of their final seven Premier League away video games (W2) and will undergo 4 consecutive defeats on the highway for the primary time since April 2012.
Liverpool have misplaced every of their final two Premier League video games which have come after taking part in in Europe in midweek, final dropping three successive such fixtures in a season again in 2006/07.