This was announced by Pep Guardiola, the team’s technical director Manchester City The Englishman, and Manchester United coach Eric Ten Hag, are the starting lineup that will play the awaited derby match, which will be hosted by “Etihad Stadium,” City’s stronghold, at five-thirty in the evening today, Sunday, in the twenty-seventh round of the English Premier League.
Manchester City’s lineup was as follows:
Ederson, Walker, Stones, Diaz, Ake, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, Doku, and Haaland.
Manchester City formation
The Manchester United formation included:
Onana, Dalot, Evans, Varane, Lindelof, Casemiro, Maino, McTominay, Bruno Fernandes, Garnacho, Rashford.
Manchester United formation
Man City vs Man United
Manchester City enters tonight’s match in second place in the English Premier League table, with 59 points, behind Liverpool, the leaders, while Manchester United occupies sixth place with 44 points.
City had succeeded in achieving victory during the first round match of the current season in the Premier League, against United’s stronghold, “Old Trafford”, by three clean goals, in the tenth round of the competition.
Premier League
The companions of Norwegian star Erling Haaland will play tonight’s match in high spirits after the crushing victory he achieved over Luton Town with six goals to two, in the fifth round of the FA Cup, of which the Norwegian striker scored 5 goals, and United also succeeded in overcoming Nottingham Forest in the same round. With difficulty, with a clean goal.
City coach Pep Guardiola is armed with a large group of his stars ready for tonight’s match, led by duo Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne, while winger Jack Grealish will be absent. On the other hand, United is suffering from a long list of injuries, most notably Danish top scorer Rasmus Hoylund, Luke Shaw, Wan-Bissaka and Lisandro Martinez.
Manchester United has historically excelled in its confrontations against Manchester City, with the Red Devils winning 61 times compared to City’s 49 wins, and 36 matches being tied. United scored 210 goals compared to 213 goals for the Citizens.
Manchester City succeeded in achieving victory over United in 4 of the last 5 matches between the two teams in various competitions, compared to one victory for the Red Devils.