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Guardiola: “We started in Paris (these games), then Chelsea afterwards, so we are already there in difficult games. The schedule is what it is.

“It always happens in the Premier League, always the hardest (games) – they are always kind with the calendar. It happens like this for many years. We had amazing success with this calendar. It was always like that, we accept it, I don’t complain because we won the heights. “

Team messages

David Raya missed the win of the Champions League in the meantime in Girona with a muscle injury with Neto-Depertizing, and the Brazilian is again in the standby standby.

The England duo Ben White and Bukayo Saka remain outside after knee and knee heights, while Takehiro Tomiyasu and the former city man Gabriel Jesus are also missed with their own knee injuries.

Rodri’s ACL injury, which was picked up in the reverse device, hindered the city all season, but it could be back before the end of the season. Rubens Dias, Jeremy Doku and Nathan Ake have given the last games and Guardiola admitted that they are not fit for this game in time.

Oscar Bobb is back in training after a broken leg, while January Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis can reappear after they were not approved in the Champions League. Kyle Walker switched to AC Milan at the beginning of this week.

Tactics

Adrian Clarke, writes in The official matchday program: The city has shifted between 4-1 and 4-2-3-1, whereby Kevin de Bruyne was using the Guardiola. If he leans into a possession -based attack approach, the Belgian will usually play as No. 10, but if not, it becomes a midfielder in a gaming plan that is more suitable for speed at rapid transitions.

The city, which is an average of 61% of the property in the league, wants to monopolize the ball. It is an obvious trick to avoid our press by going to Erling Haaland for a long time when he is left 1V1 with a marker, but the left -back Josko Gvardiol also likes to take dangerous runs beyond the line of defense. It can be professionally selected by keeper Ederson or a central defender.

City had more shots than any other team and has achieved a division height nine times from outside the box. The Egyptian Star Omar Marmoush was added to their ranks this month, which scored 15 goals in 17 starts for Eintracht Frankfurt before the move, so that his termination must be excited.

Rodri’s absence, however, means that the city was also more susceptible to counterattacks in the middle, and only three partners of the Premier League have exposed more shots from the fast break, and her unusually porous defense has limited it to just five clean leaves in 23 games.

Facts and statistics

We are unbeaten in 13 Premier League games and have won the most points from the MD11 (29). We have never had a longer unbeaten run under Mikel Arteta, which was last reached without defeat between August and December 2018.

City has only lost one of her last 40 league games played from January to the end of the season (W33 D6). In their last 23 of these games, they are unbeaten in the last two campaigns.

In the Premier League we scored the most goals about set pieces (12, excl. Pens) this season, while City admitted the common wind of these goals (2, level with Brentford). One of them was Gabriel’s destination in the 2-2 draw in September, and five of the last 10 goals that we scored against City have come across corners.

39.6% of the minutes of Manchester City players played in the Premier League this season
were given to players aged 30 and over.

Phil Foden scored for the first time in four games of the Premier League in a row, while in 2025 he has scored more goals from the Premier League than any other player (6).

Kevin de Bruyne has participation of 12 goals in 14 Premier League starts against us, while his eight goals are more than he is managed against any other side of the competition.

In her last nine Premier League games in London, City has been unbeaten since her defeat in the Emirates stage in October 2023.

Manchester City has won more points this season (17) when they lost in the Premier League in the Premier League, with five of their 12 victories after the first goal.

Match official

Peter Bankes will be the man in the middle, for the third time that after our New Year victory in Brentford he received one of our games this season and the success of the League Cup at Preston North End. We only lost twice in 10 games under his watch, which both came in Southampton in Southampton in 2021 and 2022.

He completed two games in Manchester City this season, the last of which lost 2-1 against Aston Villa in December. While he has never booked more than two players or gave a penalty in a Gunner’s game, he pointed out five times this season in 14 Premier League games.

Referee: Peter Bankes
Assistant: Eddie Smart, Nick Greenhalgh
Fourth official: Anthony Taylor
VAR: Paul Tierey
Assistant var: Craig Taylor

The latest visits from the city

Last season we ended a 1-0 win in October 2023 with a 1-0 victory by Gabriel Martinelli, who went home against the city against the city in October 2023. This means that we could win consecutive home games against City for the first time since 2009.

In the last February, City jumped us at the top of the table with the kind permission of a 3-1 win, whereby Kevin de Bruyne opened the rating before Saka ran out of the penalty point. In the second half, however, Jack Grialish and Erling Haaland won the game.

The Guardiola team previously met in N5 on New Year’s Day 2022 when a Rodri goal achieved victory for the visitors at the last minute. Saka had given us the lead, but a Riyad Mahrez penalty and a red card for Gabriel changed the game.