Newcastle vs Manchester City
Pep Guardiola is still missing some of his best players including his productive striker Erling Haaland. Kevin De Bruyne, who has recovered from injury, is also not in today's main line-up, but he is available as a substitute. This is a match that Manchester City must win to maintain the points gap with Liverpool to 2 points. However, Newcastle who playing at home, will also try to stop its current negative trend after losing 3 consecutive matches.
Manchester City have a good chance of winning and it will be a must to try today. Then from that, Manchester City also have to be careful and not be too confident, let alone underestimate Newcastle. They have a big mission to get full points at home, even 1 point will be very valuable today.
Kick off is just around the corner and I'm quite curious about what will happen in this match whether after a few weeks off from the EPL there is a change from Newcastle or if they are still the same and have to drop points again in this match. Isak is already in the squad and this is a very good thing for Newcastle of course but for Manchester City it looks like they will still play without Haaland.
Haaland is still not seen in the Line up and on the Bench which allows this to still be something unusual because previously it was rumored that his condition began to improve. But fortunately now Doku and KDB are already in their line up even though in this match he will be on the bench because surely Pep does not want to let him be suspended from the start especially since he has been injured for a long time so it is likely that Pep does not want to take too big a risk for a KDB.