City make eight changes for Bournemouth clash

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·2 novembre 2025

City make eight changes for Bournemouth clash

Pep Guardiola has made eight changes to his City side for this afternoon's Premier League clash with Bournemouth.

Nico, Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki, man of the match in Wales, are the only players to start at Swansea City in midweek and keep their place for this one.

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Andoni Iraola's Cherries currently sit second in the Premier League with 18 points from nine games, while City can leapfrog them with a win in this one.

Teams

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

Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Rodri, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Lewis

BOURNEMOUTH XI: Petrovic, Jimenez, Diakite, Senesi, Truffert, Scott, Adams, Tavernier, Brooks (C), Semenyo, Kroupi

Subs: Dennis, Cook, Evanilson, Christie, Gannon-Doak, Smith, Kluivert, Adli, Milosavljevic

Tactics

Gianluigi Donnarumma will be protected by a back four, with Matheus Nunes and Nico O'Reilly at full-back and Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias through the middle.

It appears Nico and Bernardo Silva will be tasked with holding the midfield together.

Jeremy Doku, Phil Foden and Rayan Cherki will have freedom to roam ahead of them in support of Erling Haaland.

Formidable form

We have won all eight of our Premier League home games against Bournemouth in top-flight history, only Manchester United (16/16 v Luton) and City ourselves (9/9 v Swansea) have a better 100% home win rate against an opponent.

In those eight games, we’ve scored 31 goals and conceded just five.

Last season’s visit saw our Goal of the Season winner, with Omar Marmoush finding the top corner from long range.

The 2023/24 edition was perhaps Jeremy Doku’s finest day in a City shirt so far, scoring once and laying on four assists in a 6-1 rout.

WATCH: City 3-1 Bournemouth: Short highlights

Foden 200

Phil Foden’s place in the starting XI means he’ll make his 200th Premier League appearance.

Doing so at just 25 years and 158 days, he’s the youngest player ever to reach that figure for City.

This will be his 330th game in total for his boyhood Blues.

Having already won an astonishing 18 major honours and become one of just 20 men to net 100 times for City, there’s no doubt our Academy graduate is already a club legend.

Match stats

Bournemouth have lost 15 of their 16 Premier League games against Manchester City, with the exception a 2-1 win at the Vitality Stadium last season.
We have lost three Premier League games this season. It’s the first time we’ve lost as many as three of their opening nine games in a campaign since 2013/14, when we went on to win our second Premier League title.
Bournemouth are on the longest unbeaten run of any current Premier League side, going without defeat in eight games since their opening day loss at Liverpool. Their 18 points from nine games is their best start to a top-flight campaign.
We are averaging 13.7 shots per game in the Premier League this season, our lowest average across a single campaign since 2007/08 (11.1).
Bournemouth have scored more goals from outside the box than any other side in the Premier League this season (6), with Marcus Tavernier scoring directly from a corner against Nottingham Forest last time out.
We are the only side in the Premier League this season to spend more than half of our game time in a winning position (51.3%). However, Bournemouth have spent the fewest time trailing both overall (98m 13s) and as a percentage of game time (10.9%) this season.
19-year-old Eli Kroupi has scored in each of his last three Premier League appearances for Bournemouth. Only three teenagers have ever scored in 4+ consecutive games in the competition Robbie Fowler (3 times in 1994-95), Nicolas Anelka (twice in 1998-99) and Francis Jeffers (August/September 2000).