Premier League · Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 GMT
Etihad Stadium, Manchester
Brighton do not sit back anywhere, which makes this an open, awkward game. Pick the City eleven, decide how you play out from the back, and see what happens.
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Drag a player onto the pitch, or tap a player and then a shirt. I'll tell you what I think of every one.
Every pick and every change of plan moves these numbers.
Our predicted Manchester City starting XI for Manchester City vs Brighton in a 4-3-3: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out. Squad information as of 26 September 2026. Looking for the Manchester City lineup today? The confirmed Manchester City line up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, this is the prediction.
No Manchester City players are ruled out in our squad information as of 26 September 2026.
Disagree with the prediction? Use the lineup builder above to pick your own starting XI and formation, then play the match to see how it goes.
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Manchester City are predicted to line up in a 4-3-3: Gianluigi Donnarumma; Rayan Ait-Nouri, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis; Enzo Fernandez, Elliot Anderson, Mateo Kovacic; Antoine Semenyo, Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku. Squad information as of 26 September 2026.
Saturday 31 October 2026, 15:00 GMT, at Etihad Stadium, Manchester (Premier League).
No injuries or suspensions reported for Manchester City as of 26 September 2026.
About an hour before kick-off. Until then this is the predicted Manchester City line-up, and you can pick your own starting XI on this page and play the match.
A pre-match game. Manchester City v Brighton has not been played yet, so there is no real result to match — you choose the Manchester City eleven, place every player wherever you like, set the approach, and the match runs on the spot.
This is not a prediction game. Nobody is keeping score and there is nothing to get right — the match has not been played yet, so there is no correct answer to find. Pick the eleven you would pick, or the eleven nobody would dare, and see what your team does with it.
This game comes down once the real match has finished. The full simulation — where you take the touchline in a match that really happened and change how it actually ended — lives on MatchRewrite permanently. Browse the clubs.
Before this one kicks off, play the matches that have already happened involving Manchester City and Brighton. Each one is the real line-ups and the real result, and you make the calls that decided it.
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