Manchester City and Salford City have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s FA Cup tie | OneFootball

Manchester City and Salford City have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s FA Cup fourth-round tie at the Etihad Stadium. Pep Guardiola’s side will be eager to continue their momentum after three consecutive wins against Newcastle, Liverpool, and Fulham in all competitions. They’ll face a Salford City team managed by Karl Robinson, who will be eager to put in a better display than their 8-0 defeat to City in last season’s FA Cup third-round tie.

Manchester City enter today’s match with several players unavailable due to injury. Josko Gvardiol, Mateo Kovacic, Jeremy Doku, and Savinho are all ruled out of today’s match. Mateo Kovacic has returned to training, Pep Guardiola told the media yesterday. Simon Bajkowski of the Manchester Evening News has reported on X that Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva aren’t in Manchester City’s matchday squad for today’s match. Haaland was taken off at halftime of Manchester City’s 3-nil win over Fulham due to fitness concerns. Bernardo Silva looks to have been rested for today’s match.

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Pep Guardiola has made nine changes to the starting lineup that beat Fulham on Wednesday evening. In comes James Trafford, Abdukodir Khusanov, John Stones, Max Alleyne, Nico, Rico Lewis, Tijjani Reijnders, Rayan Cherki and Omar Marmoush. Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva aren’t on the bench for today’s match as mentioned above. Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Marc Guehi, Ruben Dias, Rodri, Antoine Semenyo and Nico O’Reilly and all drop the bench for today’s match.

Starting lineup: James Trafford, Abdukodir Khusanov, John  Stones, Max Alleyne, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Nico, Rico Lewis, Tijjani Reijnders, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Omar Marmoush.

Substitutes: Donnarumma, Dias, Guéhi, Rodri, Nunes, O’Reilly, Semenyo, McAidoo, F. Samba.

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