Metropolis make three adjustments for Sunday’s newest Premier League task away to Arsenal.
From the facet that started final Wednesday’s Champions League victory at residence to Membership Brugge, goalkeeper , and January signing all come into ‘s beginning line-up.
Ilkay and Kevin revert to the bench whereas misses out this afternoon as he’s not absolutely match.
It’s Ortega Moreno’s first begin since final month’s 2-2 league draw away at Brentford whereas Marmoush can be making his second Metropolis look following his current arrival from Eintracht Frankfurt.
stays near a comeback however hasn’t made right now’s matchday squad as he continues his drive to construct up match health after his lengthy lay-off.
In the meantime , Nathan , and Rodri are all sidelined via damage.
Groups
ARSENAL XI: Raya, Timber, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Martinelli, Trossard, Havertz
Subs: Neto, Kiwiro, Zinchenko, Tierney, Jorginho, Merino, Sterling, Nwaneri
CITY XI: Ortega Moreno, Nunes, , Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, (C), Savio, Marmoush, Foden, Haaland
Subs: Carson, Grealish, , , Reis, Khusanov, O’Reilly, Lewis, McAtee
Ways and formation
Ortega Moreno strains up between the sticks and can be protected by a again 4 of , John , and .
is about to offer the midfield protecting defend with skipper Silva and additionally within the engine room.
can be Metropolis’s acquainted hanging focus with Marmoush and anticipated to offer the attacking width.
Nonetheless, as all the time, such is Metropolis’s tactical fluency and suppleness that may very well be topic to vary.
Field workplace stuff
Over current years clashes between the Gunners and Metropolis have grow to be field workplace blockbuster materials and right now’s encounter guarantees to be no completely different.
Final September’s 2-2 Etihad draw was an action-packed, feisty and vibrant affair and there’s a eager sense of anticipation forward of right now’s newest assembly.
Going into Sunday’s match, the hosts lie second within the desk on 47 factors with Metropolis fourth on 41.
So, victory on the Emirates would see us transfer inside three factors of the hosts with 14 video games of the season nonetheless remaining and in addition prolong our unbeaten league run in 2025.
No lack of incentive then!
Fired up Foden
It’s honest to say that will step out brimming with confidence on the again of what was an outstanding January.
The Academy graduate scored extra Premier League objectives within the first month of 2025 than another participant, registering six from six pictures on course.
Within the course of he turned the fifth participant on report (from 2003-04 onwards) to attain as many as six objectives with each shot on course in a month.
The others to have achieved that notable feat are Jermain Defoe in March 2008, Dimitar Berbatov in December 2011, Sergio Agüero in August 2019 and Taiwo Awoniyi in Might 2023 (all six objectives).
One other strike right now would see Foden get what guarantees to be a vital and demanding February, that includes seven video games in 25 days, off to a flying begin.
Stats and details
• Arsenal gained this actual fixture 1-0 final season – they final gained consecutive residence league video games in opposition to Metropolis between 2005-06 and 2008-09 (a run of 4).
• Having gained 12 consecutive league video games in opposition to Arsenal between 2017 and 2023, Metropolis at the moment are winless in our final three in opposition to the Gunners (D2 L1).
• Arsenal are unbeaten in 13 Premier League matches (W8 D5) and have gained probably the most factors of any facet from MD11 onwards (29). The Gunners have by no means had an extended unbeaten run underneath Mikel Arteta, final going 14 with out defeat between August and December 2018 underneath Unai Emery.
• Metropolis are unbeaten in six Premier League video games (W4 D2) and solely Newcastle (15) have gained extra factors since Christmas than Metropolis (14), whereas now we have scored probably the most objectives in that point (18).
• Metropolis have misplaced simply certainly one of our final 40 Premier League matches performed from January till the top of the marketing campaign (W33 D6), shedding 1-0 to Brentford on the ultimate day of 2022-23. We’re unbeaten of their final 23 of those video games throughout the final two campaigns (W19 D4), scoring 66 objectives at a mean of two.9 per sport.
• Arsenal have scored probably the most objectives by way of set items (12, excl. pens) within the Premier League this season, whereas Metropolis have conceded the joint fewest of those objectives (2, stage with Brentford). A kind of was in opposition to the Gunners earlier within the season nonetheless, with 5 of the final 10 objectives that Arsenal have netted in opposition to Metropolis coming by way of corners.
• 39.6% of the minutes performed by Metropolis gamers within the Premier League this season have been given to gamers aged 30 or older, the second-highest proportion in a Premier League season for Metropolis behind the 2016-17 marketing campaign (54%).
• Since Mikel Arteta’s first Premier League sport answerable for Arsenal, the Gunners have acquired extra pink playing cards than another facet (19). Regardless of this, Arsenal rank twenty third out of the 27 groups to function in that point for fouls per sport (10.1).
• has scored 5 objectives in his final 5 Premier League appearances for Metropolis, two greater than he’d managed in his earlier 13 video games mixed (3). He’s exceeded his xG by 1.1 in his final 5 video games (5 objectives vs 3.9 xG).