Manchester City and Crystal Palace Announce Starting Lineups Ahead of Premier League Clash

Manchester City and Crystal Palace have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of yet another must-win Premier League fixture at the Etihad Stadium for Pep Guardiola’s side. City must secure three points tonight to maintain any hope of winning this season’s Premier League title. Arsenal currently leads by five points, but a victory could bring City within two points of Mikel Arteta’s squad. To clinch that, City needs to overcome a Crystal Palace team that can be a formidable rival under manager Oliver Glasner.

Manchester City enters tonight’s match with two players in doubt due to injuries: Rodri and Abdukodir Khusanov. Rodri has missed the last four games because of a groin injury, but Pep Guardiola mentioned yesterday that Rodri has trained and may participate tonight. Abdukodir Khusanov missed the recent win over Brentford after suffering a significant knock against Everton, but he has trained as well and could play provided he experiences no adverse effects.

Here are both teams’ starting lineups for tonight’s match.

Manchester City

Pep Guardiola has made six changes to the starting lineup that triumphed over Brentford. Abdukodir Khusanov, Josko Gvardiol, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Phil Foden, Savinho, and Omar Marmoush come in, while Nathan Ake, Tijjani Reijnders, Nico O’Reilly, Rayan Cherki, Jeremy Doku, and Erling Haaland move to the bench for this fixture.

Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Abdukodir Khusanov, Marc Guehi, Josko Gvardiol, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, Antoine Semenyo, Savinho, Omar Marmoush.

Substitutes: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Kovacic, Haaland, Cherki, Doku.

Crystal Palace