{"id":669492,"date":"2026-05-04T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669492"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:47:55","slug":"everton-vs-manchester-city-team-news-and-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/04\/everton-vs-manchester-city-team-news-and-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton vs Manchester City: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups ahead of the Everton vs Manchester City game tonight. Kickoff 8 pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>A victory for The Toffeees would see them move to within touching distance of a European place. However, they face a Manchester City side that they have not beaten in 17 attempts and will be desperate for the win to close the gap at the top of the table as they battle for the title with Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the latest team news and confirmed lineups<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/03\/greatest-manager-rants\/\" target=\"_self\">Top Five Greatest Manager Rants<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Everton vs Manchester City: Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Everton Team News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available:<\/strong> Beto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubt: <\/strong>None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out: <\/strong>Jack Grealish (foot) and Jarrad Braithwaite (thigh)<\/p>\n<h3>David Moyes on Recent Games<\/h3>\n<p>David Moyes, in his <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.evertonfc.com\/news\/2026\/may\/04\/moyes--programme-notes-for-visit-of-man-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">programme notes<\/a>, believes performances have been better than results. &#8220;Recent performances have been better than the results we have endured in our past two matches. We have loved the experience of scoring important late goals ourselves this season, but losing late goals is never easy, and that is something we have had to experience in our past two matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available: <\/strong>Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubt: <\/strong>Rodri (calf)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out: <\/strong>Ruben Dias (ankle) and Josko Gvardiol (leg fracture)<\/p>\n<h3>Pep Guardiola on Visiting Everton<\/h3>\n<p>Ahead of the game tonight, City boss Pep Guardiola spoke about the trip to Everton. He said: \u00a0\u201cOld Everton was so cool and so British, and I loved to go there, but in the new stadium, they are defending really well, and it has always been tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent weeks, Everton have had very good results and are fighting for a place in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won with two or three actions here, but we were not good at that moment. We can\u2019t have any result but win, win, win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/04\/everton-vs-manchester-city-team-news-and-predicted-lineups\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton vs Manchester City: Team News and Predicted Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Everton Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pickford<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Tarkowski<\/p>\n<p>Keane<\/p>\n<p>Mykolenko<\/p>\n<p>Iroegunam<\/p>\n<p>Garner<\/p>\n<p>Rohl<\/p>\n<p>Dewsbury-Hall<\/p>\n<p>Ndiaye<\/p>\n<p>Beto<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Travers, Patterson, McNeil, Barry, George, Dibling, Coleman, Alcaraz, Armstrong<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Donnarumma<\/p>\n<p>Nunes<\/p>\n<p>Khusanov<\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00e9hi<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly<\/p>\n<p>Nico<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo<\/p>\n<p>Cherki<\/p>\n<p>Doku<\/p>\n<p>Haaland<\/p>\n<p>Subs: <span>Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Kovacic, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Foden<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of SmartFrame\/Tony McArdle\/Everton FC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups ahead of the Everton vs Manchester City game tonight. Kickoff 8 pm GMT. A victory for The Toffeees would see them move to within touching distance of a European place. However, they face a Manchester City side that they have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":669494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1970e2615a4bf4d8c7ab2416a1cc8d79\" image-id=\"evfcWmt4OYjr\" style=\"width: 100%;aspect-ratio: 1.5000922679461155;max-width: 8129px\"><\/smartframe-embed><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support -->","_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":[13,1828,1830,17,30,3,1831],"tags":[7915,32685,32743,32608],"class_list":["post-669492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everton","category-fixtures","category-injuries","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-everton-news","tag-everton-team-news","tag-manchester-city-fixtures","tag-manchester-city-team-news"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669492","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669500,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669492\/revisions\/669500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}