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Class of 92 owners will be dreaming of a famous win over Pep Guardiola’s side

Manchester City vs Salford - LIVE!

Salford are playing in the third round of the FA Cup for the first time and come into this tie in confident mood, having won their last six matches without conceding a goal to rise up to third in League Two. Ryan Giggs is expected to be in the dugout, with Gary Neville and Paul Scholes among those watching from the stands. Follow all the action from the Etihad with Standard Sport’s LIVE blog below!

Live updates

5 minutes ago

What system will it be?

Just the two defenders named in the starting lineup by Pep Guardiola.

Anyone’s guess what that means for the Man City formation, but could be some sort of back three, with Simpson-Pusey, Ake, and Nunes.

Gundogan in front of them... and then everyone else having fun in attack.

15 minutes ago

One shock already...

Hasn’t been a huge amount in the way of upsets so far in the FA Cup today.

There was one at Brentford though, as Plymouth, who sit bottom of the Championship and hadn’t won away from home all season, stunned the Bees.

Salford knocking out Man City would be on a whole different level to that...

23 minutes ago

No Walker for Man City

Kyle Walker has been left out of the Manchester City squad.

Pep Guardiola has confirmed that’s not due to injury or illness, but rather a “tactical” decision.

Walker has been linked with a move to Saudi Arabia this month.

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31 minutes ago

Salford team news

Starting XI: Young, Berkoe, Mnoga, Tilt, Garbutt, Lund, Ashley, Fornah, Adelakun, Kouassi, Shephard

Subs: Jones, Watson, Stockton, Taylor, Chester, McAleny, Malcolm, Heys, Wright

36 minutes ago

Guardiola shuffles pack

Plenty of changes for Man City... and not a lot of defenders.

Big chance for Mubama as he leads the line this evening, while Simpson-Pusey starts at right-back and both O’Reilly and McAtee start.

Feel like Grealish needs a big match too - has to to show he deserves more Premier League minutes.

Haaland, Foden and De Bruyne among those on a very, very, very strong bench.

45 minutes ago

Man City team news

Starting XI: Ederson, Simpson-Pusey, Ake, Nunes, Gundogan, O'Reilly, McAtee, Doku, Grealish, Savinho, Mubama

Subs: Ortega, Kovacic, Haaland, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Gvardiol, Akanji, Foden, Lewis

53 minutes ago

Stand by...

All the team news from the Etihad coming up in just over five minutes.

Just how strong will Pep Guardiola go?

1 hour ago

Robinson: Important we don't let ourselves down

Karl Robinson will not be judging his Salford players only on the result, as he admitted that could be “taken out of your hands” by Man City’s quality.

"There's only one important aspect and that's the result but when you go against a team that's so strong and they've got so much quality, there is another side of winning, and that's that we don't let ourselves down," Robinson added.

"If we do all of the controllables at the weekend then in my mind my players will have won.

“The result will be a by-product of that, granted, but the result is always taken out of your hands by the quality of the opposition."

1 hour ago

Guardiola taking on 'neighbours'

Pep Guardiola has insisted Man City will have “huge respect” for Salford, who come into this match on a run of six straight wins without conceding a goal.

“I’ve lived in Salford for the last eight years so I will be playing against my neighbourhood, my home town,” Guardiola said.

“I have a lot of respect for the manager [Karl Robinson], we played years ago at Oxford and when he was assistant to Sam Allardyce at Leeds.

“The last six games, six clean sheets and six victories so I have huge respect for them and what they do, the intensity and we will take it seriously like we always have done.

“Hopefully we can do a good game and make it three wins in a row – it’s a long time since it happened.”

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1 hour ago

Huge afternoon for Class of 92

Gary Neville joined Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville, along with Singapore businessman Peter Lim, in completing a takeover at Salford in 2014.

David Beckham joined five years later by taking a 10% stake at the club. The Class of 92 own 60% of the club between them, with Lim holding the other 40%.

Under the ownership, Salford achieved four promotions in five seasons to rise from the eighth tier to the English Football League, and have been in League Two since 2019.

Giggs is director of football at Salford and has been in the dugout alongside manager Robinson for matches this season. Scholes, who was appointed caretaker manager after Graham Alexander’s departure in 2020, is the head of recruitment.

Speaking about the Class of 92’s influence at the club, Robinson recently said: "It's funny when you're speaking to players, at half-time you're trying to say to one of your wide players, maybe if you do this.

“Then you look across the room and see Ryan and think 'you might be better to explain this one than me'.

“Then you're speaking to players at the training ground, about trying to find passes through lines and you've got Paul (Scholes) sat there."

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