The starting lineups are in ahead of Manchester City’s clash with Wydad AC | OneFootball

Manchester City and Wydad AC have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of their FIFA Club World Cup Group G opener at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. For Pep Guardiola’s side, their goal is to win the tournament in the United States. They’ll be looking to pick up three points to get themselves into the tournament and kick off their campaign in style. Wydad AC will be looking to cause a famous upset against Manchester City today.

In terms of team news, there is plenty to look forward to from a Manchester City point of view. Whether or not any of Rayan Ait-Nouri, Rayan Cherki, Tijjani Reijnders or Marcus Bettinelli get their first start today is one such topic to monitor. Although, it would seem to be unlikely that Bettinelli would start today’s match. Given that Manchester City are taking the Club World Cup seriously it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Pep Guardiola name a strong starting lineup today.

Here are the answers to the questions above and here are the Manchester City and Wydad AC starting lineups for today’s match.

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Manchester City

Pep Guardiola has named a strong starting lineup for today’s match. There are starts for Vitor Reis and Nico O’Reilly so there is youth in the City starting lineup. There are also debuts for Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders. Rayan Ait-Nouri starts on the bench. Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias are all on the bench after a busy period of internationals ahead of the Club World Cup. The Manchester City starting eleven is a strong one full of attacking quality. They’ll be hopinin g to put a quality performance to begin their Club World Cup campaign.

Starting lineup: Ederson (C), Lewis, Vitor Reis, Ake, O’Reilly, Reijnders, Foden, Cherki, Savinho, Doku, Marmoush.

Substitutes: Stefan Ortega, Ruben Dias, Stones, Haaland, Nico, Rodri, Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Ait-Nouri, Gvardiol, Akanji, Nunes, Echeverri, Khusanov, Bobb.

Wydad AC

Starting lineup: Benabid; Meijers, Moufid, Boutouil, Moufi, Ferreira; Moubarik, Zemraoui; Amrabat (C), Mailula, Lorch.

Substitutes: Aqzdaou, El Motie, Harkass, Wenderroscky, Benktib, Moutaraji, Malsa, Rayhi, Mahtou, Ki, Bennani, Pedrinho, Obeng, Mwalimu, Fatihi.