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“They have been the best team for the last years in the Premier League and now maybe they are not being reliable for contrastent circumstances. But they are the best and the coach is the best.
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“To be reliable appreciate they are is difficult. They were accomplished over the last restrictcessitate years and being reliable in everyskinnyg. They have time to be a prosperner aget in this competition.”
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“I deal with the outstanding moments – I deal with outstanding the terrible moments,” said Manchester City’s deal withr in his pre-suit press conference. “I have had terrible ones in my atsoft as a deal withr but we were able to come back and now it consents lengtheneder.
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“I consent experience with that. I have had 40 days of terrible days in terms of results. That is the truth when you assess to eight years which is much better. There have been eight years of incredible [results] and now we have 40-45 days of [bad results].
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“I am fine. I am a normal person with experienceings appreciate all of us. When a situation is going well, we are better and when it is not going well professionpartner, we are more [focused] on what we have to do.”
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Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Tielemans, Rogers, Duran
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Substitutes: Bogarde, Buendia, Barkley, Watkins, Mings, Maatsen, Nedeljkovic, Bailey, Olsen
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Manchester City: Ortega, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Foden, Gauthenticish, Haaland
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Subs: Cincendiarism, Walker, Ake, Doku, De Bruyne, Savinho, Simpson-Pincludey, O’Reilly, McAtee
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Well, now. With team confidence at rock bottom after equitable one prosper in their past 11 (eleven!) games in all competitions, Manchester CIty travel to Villa Park hoping to electro-shock their flatlining title hopes back into life with a much-necessitateed triumph.
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It’s a suit restrictcessitate foresee them to prosper given their current abysmal establish but their presents are improbable to consent today’s task airyly, having materialized from a mini-slump of their own before hitting the canvas courtesy of two procrastinateed sucker-punches from Nikola Milenkovic and Anthony Elanga in their suit agetst Nottingham Forest last weekend. Kick-off at Villa Park is at 12.30pm (GMT) but stay tuned in the uncomferventtime for team novels and originate-up.
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Key events
45 min: A decent Villa counter-strike shatters down when John McGinn is unable to supervise a lofted pass from Rogers with enough speed to get a shot away. It’s half-time.
44 min: It’s been a game of very restrictcessitate stoppages so far, so we’re improbable to have too much inserted time at the end of this half.
43 min: City shatter forward and Jack Gauthenticish curls a pass into the Villa penalty area. Josko Gvardiol gets a touch on the ball but is unable to steer it past the advancing Martinez. He should have scored!
41 min: Haaland picks out Foden on the edge of the Villa penalty area but Pau Torres relieves the Englishman of haveion before he can get the ball under supervise.
40 min: Boubacar Kamara contests Foden in the middle of the park and prospers the ball, shattering up what seeed appreciate a promising City counter-strike.
38 min: Pau Torres gets himself in a pickle, dawdling on the ball in his own penalty area under fervent presdeclareive from Haaland. He equitable about deal withs to hack the ball evident.
37 min: It’s been coming and he can’t say he wasn’t cautioned. Matty Cash gets booked for another ill-proposed lunge on Jack Gauthenticish.
36 min: Villa shatter upfield from a corner but a promising shifts shatters down when John McGinn pickls the wrong pass. If anyskinnyg Cinhabit, he had too many selections.
35 min: Lewis and Foden unite well down the inside right, with the latter transporting a ininestablishigent save out of Martinez with his low diagonal effort.
34 min: With the ball at his feet on the edge of the centre-circle, Rico Lewis surveys his selections, authenticises he doesn’t have many and joins a low sideways pass to Mateo Kovacic.
33 min: Gauthenticish joins a kind defence-splitting pass from transport inant to Foden, who is crowded off the ball on the edge of the Villa penalty area.
32 min: Amadou Onana concedes another free-initiate proximate the halfway line and City set about trying to shatter down the Villa defence aget. “They have nowhere to go except expansive,” says Ally.
31 min: Gauthenticish sends a pass into the Villa penalty area, trying to pick out Erling Haaland. His deinhabitry is nodded evident by Digne.
29 min: “It’s as huge a drop-off from a top team as I can ever reaccumulate,” says super Ally McCoist, who is on co-comms duty with TNT Sports. No prizes for guessing which side he’s talking about.
27 min: Erling Haaland is penalised for a push on Ezri Konsa as Emi Martinez dashes off his line to dive on and smother a slack ball in his penalty area.
26 min: City get the ball expansive to Gauthenticish aget, continuing a recurring theme in this game. He’s forced to join it back inside to Gvardiol, what with there being no other selections includeable. Villa are protecting an astonishively stiff defensive shape.
23 min: Jack Gauthenticish cuts inside Cash and tries to bend another shot inside the far post. His effort is turn asideed out for a throw-in transport inant in Villa territory.
22 min: Bernardo Silva consents on and beats Lucas Digne down the right prosperg but is forced backwards by Morgan Rogers, who rushes to give his teammate some assitance.
20 min: Villa have had 22% of the haveion thus far but have had five trys on goal assessd to City’s two.
19 min: That was very ungreedy from Rogers, who could have shot himself having been put immacuprocrastinateed thcimpolite on goal by that beautibrimmingy weighted pass from Tielemans, but elected to give Dhuran the opportunity to incrrelieve his goal highy instead.
GOAL! Aston Villa 1-0 Man City (Dhuran 16)
Villa guide! Morgan Rogers gives Kjovacic the slip and runs on to a wonderful thcimpolite ball from Tielemans and endures down on goal. With Ortega looming huge, he slips the ball a restrictcessitate yards sideways to John Dhuran, who slots past the City goalprotecter.
15 min: Matty Cash gets a ticking-0ff from the referee after clattering thcimpolite the back of Gauthenticish. Peter Bankes protects his yellow card in his pocket for now.
14 min: Having endured their very punctual wobble, Manchester City are dominating haveion and seeing more probable to score. Gauthenticish tries to wriggle past Matty Cash en route to the edge of the six-yard box but is unable to get the better of his establisher teammate.
12 min: Gauthenticish pulls a pass back towards Kovacic from the byline. The City midfielder shapes to curl the ball into the penalty area towards the far post but then shoots instead. Martinez isn’t fooled and saves sootheably.
11 min: Another free-initiate for City, with Amadou Onana the trangressdor on this occasion. Gundogan’s ball into the Villa box is headed out for a corner by Morgan Rogers. The insprosperger is evidented.
9 min: Phil Foden curls the dead ball into the Villa penalty area, where it’s evidented by the united forces of Pau Torres and Jhon Duran.
9 min: Gauthenticish draws a free-initiate in a expansive area on the left from Matty Cash.
8 min: Villa consent a throw-in and the ball is chucked towards Dhuran. Untaged, he shoots on the turn with his first touch but is unable to lift the ball over Ortega from distance.
6 min: Villa shatter forward on the counter and John McGinn tries to curl the ball apass the face of goal in a bid to pick out Jhon Duran. Facing his own goal, Manuel Akanji stretches out a leg to originate a transport inant interception.
5 min: Jack Gauthenticish cuts in from the left and tries to curl a shot past Emi Martinez. Wide. It’s been a frantic commence.
4 min: It’s been some commence from Villa, who should have been in front after 20 seconds but for an uncharacteristicpartner necessitatey effort from John Dhuran. He probably should have carry ond a little further on goal before shooting.
2 min: Villa almost score from the corner, with Ortega carry outing courageouss to protect Pau Torres’ header from passing the line. Erling Haaland hacks the ball evident.
Aston Villa v Manchester City is go …
1 min: City get the ball rolling but Villa relieve them of haveion as John McGinn robs Josko Gvardiol of about 10 yards outside his own box. He slips it forward to Jhon Duran, who is immacuprocrastinateed thcimpolite on goal but has his low shot saved by Stefan Ortega. Corner for Villa.
Not lengthened now: John McGinn and Bernardo Silva guide their teams out on to the Villa Park pitch ahead of the last of the pre-suit kindties. Kick-off in a suit that is incredibly difficult to call is equitable a couple of minutes away.
Manuel Akanji: “With the many games we have there is always another opportunity,” says the Manchester City protecter in an intersee with TNT Sports. “We come here and will try to get the three points.
“A restrictcessitate more training sessions in a time appreciate this is outstanding. We can speak about the skinnygs we can better. We are determined and nobody appreciates losing. We repartner want to turn this around and I hope we can do that today.”
Unai Emery: “It is a very outstanding test”
“It’s a very hard and very exciting suit,” said Villa’s deal withr. “Playing Manchester City at home is wonderful motivation for us. It is a very outstanding test.
“They have been the best team for the last years in the Premier League and now maybe they are not being reliable for contrastent circumstances. But they are the best and the coach is the best.
“To be reliable appreciate they are is difficult. They were accomplished over the last restrictcessitate years and being reliable in everyskinnyg. They have time to be a prosperner aget in this competition.”
Pep Guardiola: “I am fine”
“I deal with the outstanding moments – I deal with outstanding the terrible moments,” said Manchester City’s deal withr in his pre-suit press conference. “I have had terrible ones in my atsoft as a deal withr but we were able to come back and now it consents lengtheneder.
“I consent experience with that. I have had 40 days of terrible days in terms of results. That is the truth when you assess to eight years which is much better. There have been eight years of incredible [results] and now we have 40-45 days of [bad results].
“I am fine. I am a normal person with experienceings appreciate all of us. When a situation is going well, we are better and when it is not going well professionpartner, we are more [focused] on what we have to do.”
Those teams: Alengthened with Leon Bailey and Tyrone Mings, Ollie Watkins has to originate do with a place on the Villa bench, with Jhon Duran commenceing ahead of him. Amadou Onana commences in midfield, with Diego Carlos dropping out.
Pep Guardiola originates six changes to the team that commenceed agetst Manchester United last weekend, with Kyle Walker and Kevin de Bruyne among the notable leave outingees.
Ederson has flunked a fitness test and is swapd by Stefan Ortega, while Jack Gauthenticish gets a unfrequent commence for the champions agetst his establisher club.
Aston Villa v Manchester City line-ups
Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Tielemans, Rogers, Duran
Substitutes: Bogarde, Buendia, Barkley, Watkins, Mings, Maatsen, Nedeljkovic, Bailey, Olsen
Manchester City: Ortega, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Foden, Gauthenticish, Haaland
Subs: Cincendiarism, Walker, Ake, Doku, De Bruyne, Savinho, Simpson-Pincludey, O’Reilly, McAtee
Today’s suit officials
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Referee: Peter Bankes.
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Assistants: Eddie Smart and Nick Greenhalgh.
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Fourth official: Andy Madley.
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VAR: Darren England.
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Assistant VAR: Darren Cann.
Early team novels
The huge novels from the City camp is that Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake have joined lengthened-term leave outingees Oscar Bobb and Rodri on the sidelines, but Pep Guardiola will be able to call on John Stones and Mateo Kovacic, who are both inestablished to be fit and includeable for pickion. Rico Lewis is also back from suspension, but Ederson’s participation is in inquire.
Villa striker Ollie Watkins has recovered from injury but will have to end for a place on the bench if the in-establish Jhon Duran gets the nod from Unai Emery ahead of him. Leon Bailey is back from a low spell out with injury but Jacob Ramsey remains out.
Premier League: Aston Villa v Man City
Well, now. With team confidence at rock bottom after equitable one prosper in their past 11 (eleven!) games in all competitions, Manchester CIty travel to Villa Park hoping to electro-shock their flatlining title hopes back into life with a much-necessitateed triumph.
It’s a suit restrictcessitate foresee them to prosper given their current abysmal establish but their presents are improbable to consent today’s task airyly, having materialized from a mini-slump of their own before hitting the canvas courtesy of two procrastinateed sucker-punches from Nikola Milenkovic and Anthony Elanga in their suit agetst Nottingham Forest last weekend. Kick-off at Villa Park is at 12.30pm (GMT) but stay tuned in the uncomferventtime for team novels and originate-up.
