CITY’S TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n
Centre-backs Josko Gvardiol, John Stones and Ruben Dias are all absent due to injury, and Mateo Kovacevic is still sidelined.<\/p>\n
“Ruben will be back soon,” said Pep Guardiola. “Josko, no. John, hopefully [back soon], we will see.”<\/p>\n
The reigning champions are plugging the gap by closing in on a move for England international Marc Guehi but, although Crystal Palace have confirmed a deal is close, obviously no move has been finalised for the defender to play on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Rodri has returned from his lay-off but Oscar Bobb is unavailable, and Omar Marmoush is still with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations, as they meet Nigeria in the third\/fourth-placed play-off this weekend.<\/p>\n
Antoine Semenyo, who scored at Old Trafford for Bournemouth in the 4-4 draw last month, is in line for his Premier League debut for his new club.<\/p>\n
A decision will be taken on Nico Gonzalez’s fitness after training on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITY’S TEAM NEWS Centre-backs Josko Gvardiol, John Stones and Ruben Dias are all absent due to injury, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[142324,3214,59,1753,18043,50,1755,81962,101,16322,56,54,1756,55],"class_list":["post-373632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026_01_17_old_trafford_manchester","tag-first-team","tag-gb","tag-like","tag-matthijs-de-ligt","tag-news","tag-search","tag-shea-lacey","tag-sports","tag-team-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-now","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}