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Man City predicted line-ups & matches to play

Man City predicted line-ups and team news

The predicted Man City line-up for each of the next matches, with the players ruled out and why. Pick your own starting XI on any of them and play the match.

How each predicted Man City line-up is picked: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out and the reason given. Every page shows the date its squad information was checked. The confirmed Man City line-up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, the prediction is the guide. Each fixture page comes down once its match has been played, and new fixtures are added as the season goes on.

City's defining matches are late ones — decided in the minutes after most people had accepted the result.

Take the touchline for Man City in 1 match that really happened. Pick your eleven, make the substitutions and the tactical calls, and find out whether you could have changed how it ended. Free to play in your browser, with no download and no account.

A league title settled in stoppage time on the final day. European quarter-finals where three leads were taken and none held. City's classics share a shape: the game looks finished, and then it is not.

Those endings are exactly where a manager's decisions carry most weight. Chase it or see it out. Bring the striker on or protect the shape. Here you make that choice knowing how it went the first time.

Pick the eleven, take the touchline, and make the calls. Every decision in these games is one that genuinely arose — a substitution at a particular minute, a choice between control and risk — and you make it without knowing what came next.

City matches are usually about whether control holds. The games ask you repeatedly whether to keep doing the thing that is working or change it before the opponent works it out, and both answers are defensible until one of them is not.

Nothing to install. Choose a side, name your team, and play it out.

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