{"id":660273,"date":"2025-10-05T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660273"},"modified":"2025-10-05T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:20:10","slug":"brentford-vs-man-city-confirmed-lineups-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/05\/brentford-vs-man-city-confirmed-lineups-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford vs Man City Confirmed Lineups for October 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Brentford vs Man City confirmed lineups for the last Premier League clash before the international break. The Bees are playing a very specific style of football, aiming to defend the box and directly counter with the physicality of Igor Thiago coming in handy for knockdowns. This mindset will meet the godfather of modern possession football as the Cityzens will aim to grind their opponents down no matter how many bodies they pack around the box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/04\/manchester-united-vs-sunderland-confirmed-lineups-for-october-4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United vs Sunderland Confirmed Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Brentford vs Man City Confirmed Lineups for Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Brentford Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Caomhin Kelleher starts in goal with Aaron Hickey, Sapp Van Den Berg, Nathan Collins, Kris Ajer, and Michael Kayode in the back five. Jordan Henderson plays with Yahor Yaromliuk and Mikkel Damsgaard in midfield while the fearsome duo of Kevin Schade and Igor Thiago lead the line.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>After going slightly more attacking against United last week with a back four and three attackers it is back to the containment back five with the duo of Schade and Thiago up front. The only change sees a defender in Ajer come in for Ouattara.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Gigio Donarumma starts in goal with a back line of Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, and Nico O&#8217;Reilly. Rodri is in midfield with Tijjani Reijnders as Oscar Bobb, Phil Foden, and Savinho support Erling Haaland up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>A similar lineup to the midweek draw with Monaco. John Stones is out for Nunes and there&#8217;s a start for Bobb and Savinho as the wide duo instead of Bernardo Silva and Jeremy Doku. Setup appears to be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Brentford vs Man City confirmed lineups. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who missed out, and what formation changes we could see from the managers. Be sure to keep your eyes on the GTech for this clash of philosophies as a win for either side could propel them up the table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_659799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659799\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-659799 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brentford vs Man City confirmed lineups\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/imago1066373212-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-659799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGO \/ Action Plus<br \/>13th September 2025 Gtech Community Stadium, Brentford, London, England Premier League Football, Brentford versus Chelsea Kevin Schade of Brentford celebrates with his team after scoring in the 35th minute for 1-0 PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxUK GodfreyxPitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Brentford vs Man City confirmed lineups for the last Premier League clash before the international break. The Bees are playing a very specific style of football, aiming to defend the box and directly counter with the physicality of Igor Thiago coming in handy for knockdowns. This mindset will meet the godfather of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":659799,"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":[1831,8684,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-brentford","category-manchester-city"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660273","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=660273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660276,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660273\/revisions\/660276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}