Brighton V Manchester City: Premier League Updates – Live

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Brighton (probable 4-2-3-1) Verbruggen; Veltman, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper; Baleba, Hinshelwood; Minteh, Gomez, Mitoma; Welbeck.
Subs: Steele, Coppola, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gruda, Milner, Ayari, O’Riley, Rutter.

Manchester City (possible 4-1-4-1) Trafford; Nunes, Stones, Khusanov, Ait-Nouri; Rodri; Silva, Bobb, Reijnders, Marmoush; Haaland.
Subs: Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Gonzalez, Gundogan, O’Reilly, Doku.

Referee Darren England. VAR Paul Tierney.

Teams successful brief: Rodri starts, Trafford retained

Rodri, who came connected arsenic a sub past weekend, makes his first commencement for astir a year. That will beryllium euphony to nan ears of City fans, aliases anyone who admires a spot of midfield mastery.

Pep Guardiola makes 3 much changes from nan XI beaten by Spurs, bringing successful Matheus Nunes and Abdukodir Khusanov astatine nan back, positive nan captain, Bernardo Silva, successful midfield. Rico Lewis and Ruben Dias driblet to nan bench, while Rayan Cherki is injured. In goal, nan communicative is location isn’t a change: James Trafford retains Pep’s religion aft his jitters against Spurs, truthful Ederson has to bide his clip connected nan bench.

For Brighton, Fabian Hürzeler makes 3 changes from nan XI that mislaid to Everton. Joel Veltman replaces Mats Wieffer astatine right-back, and location are 2 changes successful midfield, pinch Jack Hinshelwood and Diego Gomez coming successful for Yasin Ayari and Matt O’Riley.

Preamble

Afternoon everyone and invited to what should beryllium an intriguing battle. Two visionary managers, 2 elegant styles of play, 2 teams successful modulation … and only 1 bully consequence apiece this season.

Man City walloped Wolves, only to suffer astatine location to Spurs. Brighton fto 2 points gaffe precocious connected astatine location to Fulham, past mislaid astatine Everton’s shiny caller stadium, and needed a sojourn to Oxford successful nan League Cup to find immoderate shape (and six goals). This is technically a bottom-half-of-the-table clash, pinch City 11th and Brighton 18th – but either tin return nan escalator to their accustomed level today. A triumph by 2 goals will put City successful nan apical four, if only for a mates of hours, while a triumph of immoderate benignant will assistance Brighton to 10th.

Pep Guardiola utilized to for illustration to beryllium beside nan seaside, but past November he went to Bournemouth and Brighton connected successive Saturdays and near City’s aura connected nan beach. After going 2-1 down astatine nan Vitality Stadium, they led astatine nan Amex for astir an hr earlier Joao Pedro and Matt O’Riley put them into their misery.

City’s galling play had a unusual quirk to it. They were invincible successful British Summer Time (P18 W14 D4), but mediocre from November to March (P20 W7 D4 L9). This twelvemonth it’s still Summer Time and already nan surviving is uneasy. After seeing Thomas Frank expose City’s inexperience past weekend, Fabian Hürzeler will surely fancy this. He has yet to suffer to Pep: nan crippled astatine nan Etihad, conscionable earlier nan clocks went forward, vanished 2-2.

Kick-off is astatine 2pm (BST, obviously) and I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch nan teams.