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Our Pep makes three changes from the side that started last weekend’s win at the City Ground. Erling Haaland, the fit-again Phil Foden and Mateo Kovacic come in for Julian Alvarez, Jack Grealish and Jeremy Doku.
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Gary O’Neil brings in Hugo Bueno for Matt Doherty, which is the only change from last weekend’s win over Luton.
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Your City side for #MCIWOL 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Rodrigo, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Foden, Bernardo, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Dias, Stones, Grealish, Doku, Alvarez, Gomez, Nunes, Lewis#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/xgEh7s59fO
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 4, 2024
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☝️ One change from #WOLLUT
➡️ Hugo Bueno comes in to the starting XIHow we line-up to face @ManCity.
🐺📋 @AstroPay_OK pic.twitter.com/dLirTHlxRk
— Wolves (@Wolves) May 4, 2024
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Manchester City are so good that they don’t even need to be first to be in pole position. They go into tonight’s match against Wolves knowing that if they win their last four league matches they will win be a champions for a record-breaking fourth successive year. And there’s not a goddamn thing Nicolas Jover can do about it.
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Jover and the specialist open-play team at Arsenal are at least making City work. Their 3-0 win over Bournemouth earlier today moved them four points clear at the tophaving played two games more. Crucially their goal difference is +60 to City’s +50, which means a City draw would cede the initiative to Arsenal.
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City have won their last five league games, scoring 19 goals in the process. There are unconfirmed reports that a couple of those goals didn’t involve Kevin De Bruyne. Not for the first time, De Bruyne is in rampant form at the business end of the season. He was absent when Wolves won the return game at Molineux in September; so was Rodri. City’s defeat that day was a shock; a draw today would be an even bigger one.
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Kick off 5.30pm.
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| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenal | 36 | 60 | 83 |
| 2 | Man City | 34 | 50 | 79 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 35 | 41 | 75 |
| 10 | AFC Bournemouth | 36 | -11 | 48 |
| 11 | Wolverhampton | 35 | -7 | 46 |
| 12 | Fulham | 36 | -4 | 44 |
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Key events
The last time City didn’t win the league, in 2019-20, Wolves did the double over them. Mind you so did Manchester United and that definitely isn’t happening this season.
Pre-match reading
Team news: Haaland and Foden start
Our Pep makes three changes from the side that started last weekend’s win at the City Ground. Erling Haaland, the fit-again Phil Foden and Mateo Kovacic come in for Julian Alvarez, Jack Grealish and Jeremy Doku.
Gary O’Neil brings in Hugo Bueno for Matt Doherty, which is the only change from last weekend’s win over Luton.
Your City side for #MCIWOL 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Rodrigo, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Foden, Bernardo, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Dias, Stones, Grealish, Doku, Alvarez, Gomez, Nunes, Lewis#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/xgEh7s59fO
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 4, 2024
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Your City side for #MCIWOL 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Rodrigo, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Foden, Bernardo, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Dias, Stones, Grealish, Doku, Alvarez, Gomez, Nunes, Lewis#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/xgEh7s59fO
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 4, 2024
☝️ One change from #WOLLUT
➡️ Hugo Bueno comes in to the starting XIHow we line-up to face @ManCity.
🐺📋 @AstroPay_OK pic.twitter.com/dLirTHlxRk
— Wolves (@Wolves) May 4, 2024
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Preamble
Manchester City are so good that they don’t even need to be first to be in pole position. They go into tonight’s match against Wolves knowing that if they win their last four league matches they will win be a champions for a record-breaking fourth successive year. And there’s not a goddamn thing Nicolas Jover can do about it.
Jover and the specialist open-play team at Arsenal are at least making City work. Their 3-0 win over Bournemouth earlier today moved them four points clear at the tophaving played two games more. Crucially their goal difference is +60 to City’s +50, which means a City draw would cede the initiative to Arsenal.
City have won their last five league games, scoring 19 goals in the process. There are unconfirmed reports that a couple of those goals didn’t involve Kevin De Bruyne. Not for the first time, De Bruyne is in rampant form at the business end of the season. He was absent when Wolves won the return game at Molineux in September; so was Rodri. City’s defeat that day was a shock; a draw today would be an even bigger one.
Kick off 5.30pm.