{"id":655829,"date":"2025-06-18T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655829"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:02:37","slug":"manchester-city-confirmed-lineup-wydad-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/18\/manchester-city-confirmed-lineup-wydad-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Confirmed Lineup vs Wydad for June 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Manchester City confirmed lineup for their Club World Cup opener. After going trophyless during the regular season a revamped Pep Guardiola has a chance to prove his side still stands tall amongst the big boys. Now boasting new names like Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders, they will hopefully shore up some of the issues that plagued them during the term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/17\/manchester-city-predicted-lineup-wydad-casablanca-june\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City Predicted Lineup vs Wydad Casablanca For June 18<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Confirmed Lineup vs Wydad in Club World Cup Opener<\/h2>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Ederson starts in goal with a back line of Nathan Ake, Vitor Reis, Rico Lewis, and Nico O&#8217;Reilly. Tijjani Reijnders makes his debut in midfield alongside Jeremy Doku, Savinho, Phil Foden, and new signing Rayan Cherki. Omar Marmoush leads the line.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s quite a new look in sky blue after a regular season full of ups and downs. Reis gets a rare chance to start in defence with Lewis also getting his chance to impress. More importantly new signings Reignders and Cherki get an immediate chance to show their worth in what could be a 4-1-4-1 with Foden and the former Lyon man central.<\/p>\n<h3>Wydad AC Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Benabid, Moufid, Boutouil, Moufi, Meijers, Ferreira, El Moubarik, Zemraoui, Lorch, Amrabat, Mailula<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City CWC Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Marcus Bettinelli<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Ortega Moreno<\/li>\n<li>Ederson<\/li>\n<li>Ruben Dias<\/li>\n<li>Rijjani Reijnders<\/li>\n<li>John Stones<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Ake<\/li>\n<li>Omar Marmoush<\/li>\n<li>Erling Haaland<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Doku<\/li>\n<li>Nico Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Rodri<\/li>\n<li>Ilkay Gundogan<\/li>\n<li>Bernardo Silva<\/li>\n<li>Rayan Ait-Nouri<\/li>\n<li>Vitor Reis<\/li>\n<li>Josko Gvardiol<\/li>\n<li>Manuel Akanji<\/li>\n<li>Savinho<\/li>\n<li>Matheus Nunes<\/li>\n<li>Rayan Cherki<\/li>\n<li>Claudio Echeberri<\/li>\n<li>Abdukodir Khusanov<\/li>\n<li>Phil Foden<\/li>\n<li>Oscar Bobb<\/li>\n<li>Nico O&#8217;Reilly<\/li>\n<li>Rico Lewis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mancity.com\/news\/fifa-club-world-cup\/fifa-club-world-cup-travelling-squad-man-city-63885245\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Manchester City confirmed lineup. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who missed out, and what changes Guardiola could make to his approach with some newcomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Manchester City confirmed lineup for their Club World Cup opener. After going trophyless during the regular season a revamped Pep Guardiola has a chance to prove his side still stands tall amongst the big boys. Now boasting new names like Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders, they will hopefully shore up some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":653277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[17,30,3],"tags":[1701],"class_list":["post-655829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-club-world-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655829","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=655829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655863,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655829\/revisions\/655863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}