Pep Guardiola has made three tweaks to the City side that drew with Chelsea on Saturday, inserting John Stones, Bernardo Silva and Oscar Bobb in place of Kevin De Bruyne, Nathan Ake and Jeremy Doku. Thomas Frank also makes three change to his team following Saturday’s defeat to Liverpool: Yoane Wissa, Mathias Jorgensen and Frank Onyeka are in, while Neal Maupay, Nathan Collins and Mathias Jensen drop to the bench.
Hello and welcome the Etihad for tonight’s Premier League meeting between Manchester City and Brentford. After dropping points at home against Chelsea on Saturday, the hosts are currently third in the table at 53 points behind Liverpool (57) and Arsenal (55) with a game in hand. A win today would go a long way toward keeping pressure on the leaders.
The Bees, who are 14th with 25 points, are coming off a 4-1 defeat to Liverpool at home where Ivan Toney’s lone goal was canceled out by Darwin Núñez, Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Mo Salah on his return from injury.
The team sheets will be with us any moment and we’ll have them over to you directly.
Good evening. Welcome to coverage of the rescheduled Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, where the defending champions will hope to recover from their minor stumble against Chelsea at the weekend to move above Arsenal to within one point of leaders Liverpool, who host Luton tomorrow. Bryan will be here with full coverage shortly but in the meantime Pep Guardiola felt like he had some apologising to do before this evening’s match. Read all about it here.
And Jonathan Wilson analysed Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea and came to the conclusion that it highlighted a glaring weakness in Pep Guardiola’s team.