Manchester City and Ipswich Town have confirmed their starting lineups for today’s Premier League fixture at the Etihad Stadium. Enzo Maresca’s side will be looking to continue their winning start to their Premier League campaign. City have won their first six games this season. They’ll face off against an Ipswich Town side who have made a good start to life in the Premier League. Gary O’Neil’s side sits 10th ahead of today’s game and will be full of confidence that they pick up a positive result today.

Manchester City will be looking to bounce back from the 4-2 defeat they suffered at the hands of PSG midweek. Although City lost that match they’ll take real confidence and belief from their second half display. Enzo Maresca’s side dominated Luis Enrique’s side and in the process they showed how good they can be against the very best sides. They’ll be aiming to bring that form into today’s match.

Enzo Maresca had a full squad to choose from for today’s match. There are no injury concerns in his squad and Phil Foden is available to play domestic football again having served his three-match ban he received for the being sent off for violent conduct against Manchester United last month.

Here are both team’s starting lineups for today’s match.

Enzo Maresca has made six changes to the starting lineup that was beaten by PSG. In comes Matheus Nunes, Mateo Kovacic, Ayyoub Bouaddi, Phil Foden, Iliman Ndiaye and Nico O’Reilly. Abdukodir Khusanov, Elliot Anderson, Rayan Cherki, Enzo Fernandez, Antoine Semenyo and Josko Gvardiol drop to the bench for today’s game.

Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Marc Guehi, Nico O’Reilly, Ayyoub Bouaddi, Mateo Kovacic, Iliman Ndiaye, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.

Substitutes: Rulli, Anderson, Cherki, Fernández, Aït-Nouri, Gvardiol, Allan, Semenyo, Khusanov.

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