{"id":430786,"date":"2026-05-07T22:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:52:15","slug":"man-city-xi-vs-brentford-confirmed-team-news-predicted-lineup-and-injury-latest-for-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430786\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City XI vs Brentford: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> will be hoping to have Rodri fit and available as the Premier League<\/a> title run-in continues this weekend.<\/p>\n

City dropped points against Everton<\/a> earlier this week and handed Arsenal a huge advantage at the top of the table, with the Gunners now five points clear of Pep Guardiola<\/a>\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

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2024 Ballon d\u2019Or winner Rodri has been out since the 2-1 <\/a>win over the north Londoners having suffered a groin injury.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said ahead of the trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium that the Spaniard had not yet trained with his team-mates, but he is set to issue an update on the midfielder when he addresses the media on Friday before his side\u2019s home clash against Europe-chasing Brentford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also on the treatment table are Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol, who were Guardiola\u2019s first-choice centre-back pairing at the start of the campaign.<\/p>\n

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Neither are back in training with their team-mates as of yet, with Dias out with a thigh problem, while Gvardiol is still recovering from a broken leg he suffered against Chelsea in January.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, it is as you were for City.<\/p>\n

Gianluigi Donnarumma will be in goal, shielded by a back four of Matheus Nunes, Abdukodir Khusanov, Marc Guehi and Nico O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n

In midfield, it is likely to be Bernardo Silva and Nico Gonzalez, although Guardiola could rotate and plump for either Tijjani Reijnders in that position or shift O\u2019Reilly into midfield and play Rayan Ait-Nouri on the left side of defence.<\/p>\n

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In the attacking trident, he will keep things as is, with Antoine Semenyo on the right, Jeremy Doku on the left, and Rayan Cherki sandwiched between them.<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland, of course, will lead the line.<\/p>\n

Predicted Man City XI (4-2-3-1): Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O\u2019Reilly; Nico, Silva; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland<\/p>\n

Doubt: Rodri<\/p>\n

Injured: Dias, Gvardiol<\/p>\n

Date and time: 5.30pm BST on Saturday, May 9, 2026<\/p>\n

Venue: Etihad Stadium<\/a><\/p>\n

How to watch: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City will be hoping to have Rodri fit and available as the Premier League title run-in continues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32745,57737,4026,42611,20908,4027,22095,41742,42605,32753,85,46,42612,2617,54335,42610,170686,13474,2619,199498,32740,32749,42615,105,42607],"class_list":["post-430786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abdukodir-khusanov","tag-antoine-semenyo","tag-arsenal","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-brentford","tag-chelsea","tag-erling-haaland","tag-everton","tag-gianluigi-donnarumma","tag-gvardiol","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jeremy-doku","tag-manchester-city","tag-marc-guehi","tag-matheus-nunes","tag-nico-oreilly","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-rayan","tag-rayan-cherki","tag-rodri","tag-ruben-dias","tag-sports","tag-tijjani-reijnders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}