Manchester City and Everton have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of tonight’s Premier League fixture at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The situation is simple for Pep Guardiola’s side tonight. They simply must pick up three points to keep pace with Arsenal. Mikel Arteta’s side has moved six points clear of City at the top of the Premier League table. They also have a four-goal better goal difference than City. No matter how tonight’s game unfolds, City must win in their first game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
You do sense that if City drop points tonight, Arsenal may have an advantage that they won’t surrender in the title race. City take on an Everton side that are tough to beat under David Moyes. Tonight’s match will be no walk in the park for Manchester City.
Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias will miss tonight’s match for Manchester City due to injury. Pep Guardiola shared on Friday that the pair are making progress in their recovery from injury. However, neither player is available for tonight’s match.
The biggest injury issue for Manchester City entering tonight’s match surrounds Rodri. Manchester City’s midfield general has missed his team’s past two matches due to the calf injury he sustained against Arsenal over a fortnight ago. It also wasn’t immediately clear if Rodri trained with his teammates over the weekend which means he is in doubt for tonight’s match.
Here are both teams starting lineups for tonight’s match.
Manchester City
Pep Guardiola has made a raft of changes to the starting lineup that beat Southampton in the FA Cup semi-final last weekend. In comes Gianluigi Donnarumma, Abdukodir Khusanov, Marc Guehi, Nico O’Reilly, Bernardo Silva, Antoine Semenyo, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland. James Trafford, Nathan Ake, John Stones, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Tijjani Reijnders, Mateo Kovacic, Phil Foden, and Omar Marmoush drop to the bench for tonight’s match.
Rodri isn’t included in the Manchester City matchday squad. It remains to be seen when Rodri will return to action.
Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Abdukodir Khusanov, Marc Guehi, Nico O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo Silva, Rayan Cherki, Antoine Semenyo, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Kovacic, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Foden.
