Manchester City host Burnley at the Etihad Stadium following contrasting midweek cup results. City progressed in cup action while Burnley were stunned at home by League One Cardiff City. The fixture arrives with Manchester City seeking to restore momentum after a mixed start to the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland has been central to City\u2019s early goalscoring, having scored six of their nine Premier League goals this term. He missed City\u2019s cup game with a reported back injury that troubled him the previous weekend but has been given the all clear to play against the Clarets. FPL managers will be tracking Erling Haaland\u2019s fitness incessantly up until Saturday morning, with Bunley (H) enticing many to use their \u2019Triple Captain\u2019 chip.<\/p>\n
Injury updates leave City without Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri, Rayan Cherki, Omar Marmoush and Abdukodir Khusanov. Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107 has returned to training and is in contention to feature for the first time this season. Guardiola was particularly complimentary of Phil Foden and Savinho in his prematch press conference, and both players could be included in City\u2019s starting XI.<\/p>\n
Kyle Walker faces his former club for the first time since leaving the Etihad permanently in the summer. With Scott Parker expected to deploy a back five, Walker will likely operate as a conservative wing-back on the right.<\/p>\n
Burnley will assess Jacob Brunn Larsen ahead of kick-off but will be without Jordan Beyer, Connor Roberts and Zeki Amdouni. Lesley Ugochukwu was back in contention in midweek, though Parker could prefer summer arrival Florentino Lu\u00eds alongside captain Josh Cullen in midfield.<\/p>\n
Burnley have shown defensive resilience through five weeks of the season but arrive with a poor recent record against City, who have won the previous 13 meetings by an aggregate score of 46\u20132. City are likely to face a deep and compact Clarets block, with Jaidon Anthony offering a transition threat that must be managed.<\/p>\n
Man City predicted lineup vs. Burnley (4-1-4-1): Donnarumma; Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly; Rodri; Savinho, Foden, Reijnders, Doku; Haaland.<\/p>\n
Burnley predicted lineup vs. Man City (5-4-1): D\u00fabravka; Walker, Laurent, Ekdal, Est\u00e8ve, Hartman; Tchaouna, Cullen, Florentino, Anthony; Foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haaland fit as City seek to overcome Burnley\u2019s compact defence at the Etihad this Saturday 3pm GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,1056,969],"tags":[1012,1066],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burnley","category-man-city","category-premier-league","tag-burnley-style","tag-carabao-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}