{"id":621097,"date":"2023-01-14T02:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621097"},"modified":"2023-01-14T02:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:36:49","slug":"manchester-city-predicted-lineup-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/14\/manchester-city-predicted-lineup-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland Returns &#8211; Manchester City Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for the Manchester derby as two of the Premier League&#8217;s finest go head to head. Ahead of such a big game, it&#8217;s time to take a look at the Manchester City predicted lineup to see how they shape up against their local rivals.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Predicted Lineup for Manchester Derby<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Training for the derby! \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Uuh1jvTJS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8Uuh1jvTJS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1614031561179140096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>How Manchester City Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>The Citizens are coming off the back of two straight cup games, which means they&#8217;ve experimented with the lineup recently. However, they&#8217;ve been pretty steadfast in league matches with a defensive setup of Ederson, Nathan Ake, John Stones, Manuel Akanji, and Rico Lewis or Kyle Walker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/17\/erling-haaland-impressing-in-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Really Insane&#8217; Erling Haaland Keeps Impressing in the Premier League<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of them, the preferred setout in midfield is Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri pulling the strings with a front three of Jack Grealish, Erling Haaland and Riyad Mahrez.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Recent Form &amp; Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has stuck with a 4-3-3 formation in recent times, even when rotating for cup competitions. He briefly tinkered with a 3-2-4-1 against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/11\/potential-chelsea-lineup-january-transfer-window\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>\u00a0but reverted back to his old reliable right after.<\/p>\n<p>They are still going strong although doubts are starting to creep in after the failure to beat Everton and being eliminated from the Carabao Cup by Southampton.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>The only worrisome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierinjuries.com\/teams\/manchester-city\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injuries for Guardiola<\/a> are in defence. Both John Stones and Ruben Dias are out, which means the centre-back pairing of Aymeric Laporte and Akanji is the likely set-up for this derby.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>For this clash with the Red Devils, the side probably sticks with the 4-3-3 formation with the following starting eleven:<\/p>\n<p>GK &#8211; Ederson<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Nathan Ake<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Manuel Akanji<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Aymeric Laporte<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Kyle Walker<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Ilkay Gundogan<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Rodri<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Kevin De Bruyne<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Jack Grealish<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Erling Haaland<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Riyad Mahrez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for the Manchester derby as two of the Premier League&#8217;s finest go head to head. Ahead of such a big game, it&#8217;s time to take a look at the Manchester City predicted lineup to see how they shape up against their local rivals. Manchester City Predicted Lineup for Manchester Derby Training for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":621112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9367,2,17,18,3],"tags":[9670,209],"class_list":["post-621097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-featured","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-city-predicted-lineup","tag-manchester-derby"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}