Manchester City and Manchester United have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of the 198th Manchester derby at Old Trafford today. All derbies are crucial and massive matches, but today’s feels ...
Manchester City and Manchester United have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of the 198th Manchester derby at Old Trafford today. All derbies are crucial and massive matches, but today’s feels especially important for Pep Guardiola’s side. City need to break a run of three consecutive draws in the Premier League to keep in touch with Arsenal, who sit top of the Premier League. Mikel Arteta’s side are six points clear of City ahead of this weekend’s Premier League fixtures.
Pep Guardiola’s side will take on a Manchester United side who will be managed by Michael Carrick. After Ruben Amorim’s dismissal, Carrick has been appointed caretaker manager of Manchester United for the remainder of this season. Darren Fletcher took charge of United’s past two matches. Manchester City will have to prepare for the unexpected today as Pep Guardiola mentioned yesterday.
Here are the starting lineups and Manchester City team news for today’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford.
Manchester City
There are a host of players unavailable for today’s match for Manchester City due to injury. Josko Gvardiol, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Mateo Kovacic, Oscar Bobb, and Savinho are all out of today’s match due to injury. Omar Marmoush remains unavailable due to international duty with Egypt at the African Cup of Nations.
Pep Guardiola has made three changes to the starting lineup that secured a vital 2-0 win over Newcastle United in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final tie at St. James’ Park. In come Rodri, Rico Lewis, and Gianluigi Donnarumma. James Trafford and Nico O’Reilly drop to the bench.
Matheus Nunes isn’t included in the Manchester City matchday squad for today’s match. He is the third player to not take his place in the City starting lineup from Manchester City’s win over Newcastle. Neither is Nico who hasn’t been deemed fit enough to feature in today’s Manchester derby.
Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Rico Lewis, Abdukodir Khusanov, Max Alleyne, Nathan Ake, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Antoine Semenyo, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Bettinelli, Reijnders, Cherki, Ait-Nouri, O’Reilly, McAidoo, Mukasa, Mfuni.
Manchester United
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