{"id":660786,"date":"2025-10-26T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660786"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:49:13","slug":"aston-villa-vs-manchester-city-confirmed-lineps-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/26\/aston-villa-vs-manchester-city-confirmed-lineps-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa vs Manchester City Confirmed Lineps for October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Aston Villa vs Manchester City confirmed lineups for their Premier League clash as part of the Sunday block at 2 pm. After an inconsistent start to the campaign both teams are on the up as they&#8217;re each undefeated in their past few league matches. The Citizens will be aiming to win to keep pace with Arsenal and Sunderland atop the table while their opponents seek to break into the ridiculous bottleneck emerging around the European spots. This is sure to be an interesting clash that will have big ramifications for whoever loses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/25\/liverpool-vs-brentford-confirmed-lineups-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool vs Brentford Confirmed Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Aston Villa vs Manchester City Confirmed Lineups for Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Aston Villa Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Emi Martinez is in goal with a back line of Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, and Lucas Digne. Amadou Onana is in midfield with Boubacar Kamara. John McGinn is up front with Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins, and Emi Buendia as the attacking four.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Only one change from last weekend&#8217;s win as Evann Guessand drops out for Buendia. The formation can be a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-2-2-2 depending on the opposition and game state.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Gianluigi Donnarumma is in goal with a back line of Matheus Nunes, John Stones, Ruben Dias, and Josko Gvardiol. Tijjani Reijnders is in midfield with Bernardo Silva, Oscar Bobb, Phil Foden, and Savinho. Erling Haaland leads the line as usual.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>The lineup has some changes from midweek with Rico Lewis, Nico Gonzalez, and Jeremy Doku making way for what could be a shift to a 4-1-4-1 as Reijnders is tasked with sweeping up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Aston Villa vs Manchester City confirmed lineups. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who missed out, and what tactical switches we could see from either coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_650421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650421\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-650421 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Aston Villa vs Manchester City confirmed lineups\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/imago1057081617-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-650421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGO \/ Pro Sports Images, Aston Villa v Leicester City Premier League 04\/01\/2025. General view before the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Leicester City at Villa Park, Birmingham, England on 4 January 2025. Birmingham Villa Park West Midlands England Editorial use only DataCo restrictions apply See www.football-dataco.com , Copyright: xManjitxNarotrax PSI-21201-0001<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Aston Villa vs Manchester City confirmed lineups for their Premier League clash as part of the Sunday block at 2 pm. After an inconsistent start to the campaign both teams are on the up as they&#8217;re each undefeated in their past few league matches. The Citizens will be aiming to win to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":650421,"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":[1831,3838,17,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-aston-villa","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-premier-league"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660786","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=660786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660904,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660786\/revisions\/660904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}