Manchester City vs Manchester United: Predicted City starting eleven and latest City injury news | OneFootball

Manchester City take on Manchester United today in the 198th Manchester derby at Old Trafford. Every meeting between the two teams is significant given the rivalry that exists and with bragging righst at stake. Today’s match is massive for Pep Guardiola’s side. They need to pick up three points to remain in touch with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League. Mikel Arteta’s side sits six points clear of City at the top of the Premier League table. City can cut that gap to three points ahead of Arsenal’s match against Nottingham Forest later today with a victory.

They will face a Manchester United side managed by Michael Carrick. Carrick has stepped into the manager role at United following Ruben Amorim’s dismissal. Once again, City will have to be prepared for the unexpected, taking on a team with a new manager. City faced Chelsea before their FA Cup and Carabao Cup duties, who were undergoing similar managerial turmoil ahead of the 1-1 draw between the two teams at the Etihad at the beginning of January. A similar set of circumstances awaits Pep Guardiola’s side today and they’ll need to be prepared for anything at Old Trafford.

Here is the latest City injury news and my predicted City starting eleven ahead of today’s match.

Latest Manchester City injury news.

Manchester City enters today’s match with six players unavailable due to injury and international duty. John Stones, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Mateo Kovacic, Oscar Bobb, and Savinho are all out of today’s match due to injury. Omar Marmoush remains unavailable due to international duty with Egypt at the African Cup of Nations.

Pep Guardiola told the media yesterday that he is unsure if Nico is available for today’s match. A decision on Nico’s availability for today’s match was to be made after the City squad trained yesterday, Guardiola informed the media during his pre-game press conference yesterday.

Predicted City starting eleven.

Gianluigi Donnarumma: James Trafford has started Manchester City’s past two matches, but Donnarumma seems certain to start at Old Trafford.

Matheus Nunes: I cannot see Pep Guardiola springing a surprise at right-back, so Nunes should start once again.

Max Alleyne: Alleyne deserves to start today’s derby at Old Trafford based on his recent form. He looks to be ready to deal with the pressure that comes from playing in a Manchester derby.

Abdukodir Khusanov: As with Alleyne, Khusanov deserves to start today and his pace and strength could be crucial.

Nico O’Reilly: Nathan Ake is playing through injury, and due to this I expect Nico O’Reilly to start at left-back.

Rodri: It would appear that Rodri is primed to start in midfield today.

Bernardo Silva: There is no doubt that Manchester City’s captain will start at Old Trafford.

Rayan Cherki: In my opinion, it’s a choice between Foden and Cherki to start against Manchester United today. I’ll give the nod to Cherki given his display against Newcastle.

Antoine Semenyo: Semenyo is my pick to start on the right wing.

Jeremy Doku: Doku was devastating against Newcastle and he is my pick to start on the left wing.

Erling Haaland: Manchester City’s top scorer is battling fatigue but he will start up front as usual. Haaland generally fires up on derby day and I’m expecting a big performance from the Norwegian international.