Manchester City resume Premier League duty at the Etihad after the international break with the chance to move to the top of the table. City sit fifth, three points behind leaders Arsenal, and arrive having come close to defeating Arsenal at the Emirates last month. This is not being billed as a vintage Pep Guardiola side, but Erling Haaland\u2019s form remains decisive.<\/p>\n
Everton travel in reasonable shape after a last-gasp victory over the unbeaten Crystal Palace two weeks ago. David Moyes continues to receive praise for his work on Merseyside, but Everton must cope without talisman Jack Grealish. Grealish \u201cpicked the perfect time to score his first goal for the club against Palace\u201d and is ineligible to face his parent club due to Premier League rules.<\/p>\n
Haaland was released from international duty earlier than expected, having continued his excellent start to the season with a hat-trick against Israel. He should be fresh for Saturday\u2019s game, where an injury-hit Everton defence awaits. Omar Marmoush is back in training after a spell out through injury and Rayan Cherki is also back in action for the hosts.<\/p>\n
City have more immediate fitness concerns. Rodri pulled out of the Spain squad after picking up a knock in the win over Brentford and Nico Gonz\u00e1lez will likely start at the base of midfield in the absence of the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or winner. Defenders Abdukodir Khusanov and Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri are likely to miss out, while John Stones played twice for England over the break.<\/p>\n
Predicted Man City lineup (4-1-4-1): Donnarumma; Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly; Nico; Bernardo, Foden, Reijnders, Doku; Haaland.<\/p>\n
Everton will reshuffle without Grealish. Tyler Dibling could come in down the right and shift Iliman Ndiaye into Grealish\u2019s role. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall will continue to operate as Everton\u2019s all-action No. 10. Michael Keane is set to miss out through injury and Jarrad Branthwaite\u2019s long absence requires a defensive reshuffle; Seamus Coleman may come in at right back, moving Jake O\u2019Brien into the heart of the backline.<\/p>\n
Predicted Everton lineup (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Coleman, O\u2019Brien, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Gueye, Garner; Dibling, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye; Beto.<\/p>\n
Broadcast: United States on Peacock and Amazon Prime Video; United Kingdom radio coverage on Man City Radio; Canada on DAZN Canada, fuboTV Canada, Amazon Prime Video and Fubo Sports Network 9 Canada; Mexico on Caliente TV and Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haaland returns early; City seek top spot. Everton adapt without Grealish after Palace win. Preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[687,1056,969],"tags":[1064,1100],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everton","category-man-city","category-premier-league","tag-ballon-dor-2","tag-defence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}