{"id":538912,"date":"2026-04-19T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:48:08","slug":"team-news-man-city-vs-arsenal-injury-suspension-list-predicted-xis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538912\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News: Man City vs. Arsenal injury, suspension list, predicted XIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League games do not come much bigger than this, as a weary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/arsenal\/\" title=\"Arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> side six points clear of a merciless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/man-city\/\" title=\"Manchester City\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> outfit head to the Etihad for Sunday&#8217;s showdown with their closest challengers.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners progressed to the Champions League semi-finals in midweek, despite labouring to a goalless draw against Sporting Lisbon in the second leg of their quarter-final, while the Sky Blues have had a week to recuperate from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/premier-league\/chelsea-vs-man-city_game_245668.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3-0 stroll against Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Sports Mole rounds up all of the latest team news for both clubs.<\/p>\n<p>MAN CITY<\/p>\n<p>Out:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/ruben-dias\/\" title=\"Ruben Dias\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruben Dias<\/a> (hamstring), Josko Gvardiol (leg), John Stones (calf)<\/p>\n<p>Doubtful:\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O&#8217;Reilly; Rodri, Silva; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland<\/p>\n<p>ARSENAL<\/p>\n<p>Out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/bukayo-saka\/\" title=\"Bukayo Saka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bukayo Saka<\/a> (unspecified), Mikel Merino (foot)<\/p>\n<p>Doubtful:\u00a0Jurrien Timber (groin), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/martin-odegaard\/\" title=\"Martin Odegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Odegaard<\/a> (knee), Riccardo Calafiori (knock)<\/p>\n<p>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Zubimendi, Rice; Madueke, Eze, Trossard; Gyokeres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League games do not come much bigger than this, as a weary Arsenal side six points clear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4985,5906,218,372,59,5904,3553,5905,221,5903,217,101,3022,5907,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-gb","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538912","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=538912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}