The starting lineups are in for Manchester City’s clash with Salford City | OneFootball

Manchester City and Salford City have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of today’s FA Cup third-round tie at the Etihad. For Pep Guardiola’s side, they’ll be looking to make it three consecutive wins in all competitions. They enter today’s match after back-to-back wins over Leicester City and West Ham. Salford City will be aiming to cause a famous FA Cup upset. The scene is set for what could be a fascinating match at the Etihad.

For Manchester City, Rodri, Oscar Bobb, Ruben Dias and John Stones are all ruled out of today’s match as per Pep Guardiola’s update yesterday. Ederson is available for today’s match Guardiola also told the media yesterday.

Oscar Bobb and Ruben Dias have both returned to training earlier this week. But today’s match has come too soon for either of them to feature. The concern continues to be the fitness of John Stones. Pep Guardiola didn’t provide a further update on his condition. His injury issues continue and it is unknown when he will return to action.

Here are the starting lineups ahead of today’s match at the Etihad.

Manchester City

Pep Guardiola has made nine changes to the team that best West Ham. That is to be expected especially with a tricky Premier League fixture against Brentford following today’s match.

Divin Mubama will make his senior debut for Manchester City and it well fascinating to see how he performs.

Starting lineup: Ederson, Simpson-Pusey, Ake, Nunes, Gundogan (C), O’Reilly, McAtee, Doku, Grealish, Savinho, Mubama.

Substitutes: Ortega Moreno, Kovacic, Haaland, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Gvardiol, Akanji, Foden, Lewis.

Salford City