City name unchanged side for trip to Fulham

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·2 December 2025

City name unchanged side for trip to Fulham

Pep Guardiola has selected an unchanged side for Tuesday night’s latest Premier League trip to Fulham.

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The City boss again goes with the eleven players who started last Saturday’s 3-2 home win over Leeds United.

Another victory this evening would see the Blues narrow the gap on leaders Arsenal to just two points with the Gunners not in action until tomorrow.

Rodri is still unavailable for selection with Mateo Kovacic also sidelined through an ankle injury.

TEAMS

FULHAM XI: To follow

Subs: To follow

CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Foden, Doku, Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Cherki, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis

Formation

Gianluigi Donnarumma will be the familiar figure in goal with the Italian goalkeeper shielded by a back four of Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol and Nico O’Reilly.

Nico is again set to don the mantle of holding midfielder with skipper Bernardo Silva and Tijjani Reijnders also in the Blues engine room.

Erling Haaland will form City’s attacking focal point with Jeremy Doku and Phil Foden providing further forward flair

However, as always, such is the tactical and positional flexibility within Pep’s squad those positions could be subject to change!

Capital gains?

City kick off this evening on the back of a quite remarkable record against the Londoners.

We have won our last 18 games against Fulham in all competitions - a sequence which marks the longest losing run one side has had against another in English history.

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Fingers crossed we can further extend that amazing statistic this evening.

Ton up Erling?

Erling Haaland will step out at Craven Cottage tonight just one goal shy of notching up 100 Premier League goals for City.

And after going three games without a goal, the Norwegian will be even more fired up to resume normal service and extend what has been an incredible first few months across the 2025/26 season.

The big man has already netted 32 times for club and country so far this season.

All told meanwhile, he has registered a quite astonishing 143 goals in 164 matches overall for the Blues and is racing up the Club’s all-time top 10 scorers’ chart.

If he does find the target tonight it will be another landmark achievement in what has already become an extraordinary career.

I wouldn’t bet against him!

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Stats and facts

City have scored all 10 of our Premier League penalties against Fulham, with only Everton having a better 100% penalty success rate against an opponent (11/11 vs Newcastle).
City have won 13 of our last 14 evening kick-offs in the Premier League (7pm or later). The exception in this run was a 2-2 draw at Brentford in January, while our last such defeat was at Aston Villa in December 2023.
Fulham have won four of their last five home Premier League matches (L1), their only defeat in this run coming against table topping Arsenal. The Cottagers are looking to win three in a row at Craven Cottage for the first time since December 2023, while they last did so with a clean sheet each time in January/February 2011 under Mark Hughes.
City have lost one of our last 14 Premier League games in London (W9 D4), a 5-1 reverse at Arsenal in February this year. Manager Pep Guardiola has won 36 of his 56 games in the capital (D9 L11), the best win ratio of any manager to take charge of 10+ away games in London (64%).
City have lost our last two away Premier League games, only twice previously losing three on the bounce under Pep Guardiola – between March and July 2020 and in November/December 2024. This season is our lowest points per game on the road (1.17) since 2008-09 (0.58).
Erling Haaland has scored six goals in six Premier League appearances against Fulham, the most of any player since the Cottagers returned to the top-flight in 2022-23. The only player to net more goals against Premier League sides managed by Marco Silva overall is Harry Kane (7 in 5 games).
Goalkeeper Bernd Leno has faced City on 12 occasions in the Premier League and lost all 12 games (6 with Arsenal, 6 with Fulham), conceding 34 goals. In Premier League history, the only players to face a team more often and lose every game are Jordan Ayew vs Chelsea (17) and Ashley Westwood vs City (14).

fulham v city app coverage

Our official Man City app allows you to follow all of the action in one place.

Minute-by-minute text updates will begin in our Matchday Centre two hours before kick-off, while our Matchday Live show will begin at around 18:10 (UK).

Natalie Pike will be joined by Kit Symons and Andy Morrison in the studio with FG and Michael Brown tuning in from Craven Cottage as they offer their expert insight before, during and after the action.

During the game you can also listen to live audio commentary from Alistair Mann and Michael Brown, while our text commentary continues.

Make sure to have push notifications turned on, so you can be alerted to key moments in the action, including goals, red cards and the team news.

A quick-hit 2-minute highlights package will be available from midnight (UK) while you can sign-in to watch a free 8-minute edit from midnight.

Meanwhile on CITY+, from midnight there’ll be our popular full-match replay as well as our new extended highlights reel showing the best 20 minutes of action from the game.

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