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OPINION’Challenge him!’ – How Man City could line up vs Fulham with huge John Stones call
Manchester City can take another step towards retaining the Premier League title as they face Fulham at Craven Cottage.

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Manchester City will be going in search of a 17th successive Premier League win when they face Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday lunchtime.

City made light work of Wolves last time out, winning 5-1 at the Etihad Stadium. Erling Haaland helped himself to four goals to ensure Pep Guardiola’s side moved back to within a point of leaders Arsenal.

City play first this weekend, meaning they can move above the Gunners with three points on the banks of the Thames. Arsenal face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon knowing a victory, regardless of City’s result on Saturday, will see them end the weekend at the summit.

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Ahead of the trip to the capital, City manager Guardiola has confirmed that he has a fully-fit squad to pick from. Below, our writers have had their say on how they think the Blues should line up at Craven Cottage.

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The temptation is to bring Stones and Dias back – but that would mean dropping two of Walker, Akanji, Ake and Gvardiol. Those four have done well in recent games and deserve to keep the shirts. Stones and Dias can come off the bench if necessary, and it may be better to hold back one or both for the Spurs game. At this stage, the cliche of not changing a winning team should trump the cliche that you always play your best players.

I’d use the Fulham game to bring back Jack Grealish and challenge him to show why he deserves to start the final three games. Mateo Kovacic has done well, but not perfectly, and Bernardo Silva can drop into the number eight role with Phil Foden swapping wings to accommodate Grealish.

The rest of the team picks itself, and then Guardiola can bring the likes of Jeremy Doku, Julian Alvarez and Kovacic off the bench to freshen things up and rest some legs for Tuesday’s trip to Tottenham.

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Guardiola has the luxury of having every first-team player available to him this weekend, meaning selecting a starting XI will not be easy. While many will consider Tuesday night’s trip to Tottenham Hotspur as the toughest of the three games City have left, they need to approach each of them like a cup final.

That means Stones and Dias should return to the heart of the back-four, with Kyle Walker and Josko Gvardiol occupying the two full-back slots. In midfield, there feels like little point in disrupting the the trio of Kovacic, Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri.

As for the front-three, Haaland is a shoo-in after scoring four last weekend. Bernardo and Foden deserve to start either side of him.

How George thinks Manchester City should line up against Fulham.
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Pep Guardiola says he’s been so impressed with £30m Man City player this season
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Pep Guardiola has said that he’s been so impressed by one particular Manchester City player this season.

The Manchester club are approaching the end of another Premier League campaign, one that could see them being crowned league champions for a fourth time in a row.

With the squad having had some big changes made to it during the previous summer transfer window with certain players moving in and out of the club, the manager has pinpointed one fairly new arrival that he has been particularly impressed by this season.

Guardiola says recent Man City arrival has had a really good season

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Speaking in his latest press conference ahead of City’s away match against Fulham, Guardiola had this to say when asked to share his assessment of Mateo Kovacic’s debut season with the Manchester club.

He said: “He played really, really, really well. When he plays, because we play in a certain we, he was really good.

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“His contribution, especially in the last games was massively important, he changed the games. In that terms, he’s really, really good.”

The Blues spent £30m to sign the midfielder from fellow Premier League side Chelsea last summer.

Since then, the 30-year-old has featured in 42 games for City in all competitions, starting 27 of them.

Across those 42 games, Kovacic has chipped in with three goals and one assist.

Kovacic has shown his quality for City in the Premier League
With 27 Premier League games under his belt for the Citizens, the Croatian has shown how capable he is when it comes to passing the ball around the pitch accurately.

Specifically, out of the 1350 passes he’s attempted, 1265 of them have been completed, giving Kovacic a passing accuracy percentage of 93.7%, the third-highest in the entire league, leaving only Thiago Silva (94.8%) and Micky van de Ven (94.6%) with higher ones.

In recent weeks, the midfielder has completed the full 90 minutes in three out of City’s four previous Premier League games, which shows how much Guardiola sees him as a key figure for the team, particularly in such a crucial stage of the campaign.

Moving forward, if Kovacic plays a big role in City’s final three league games of the season and helps them win the title, this will undoubtedly be seen as being a successful debut season for the former Chelsea star.

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NEWSReport: Representatives of Manchester City transfer target ‘considering legal action’ against the FAPublished: 13:15 on May 10th 2024 | Last Updated: 10:10 on May 10th 2024By Freddie Pye
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The representatives of one of Manchester City’s main transfer targets for this summer, Lucas Paqueta, are reportedly ‘considering legal action’ against the FA.

Manchester City are expected to revive their interest in Paqueta this summer, having failed to bring the Brazilian international to the Etihad Stadium towards the end of the last summer market.

While it was understood that City and West Ham were closing in on a total agreement over a deal for the player, the emergence of an active FA investigation into gambling allegations led to the Premier League champions immediately withdrawing from talks.

As such, Manchester City moved on to sign Matheus Nunes from Wolverhampton Wanderers, although Etihad bosses are likely to return for Paqueta in the event that his investigation leads to nothing serious.

But the representatives of the 26-year-old playmaker have already been left aggrieved by the matter, and continue to be concerned that off-the-field issues could cost them a significant opportunity to join arguably the finest footballing project on the planet at present.

According to the information of TBR Football, the representatives of Lucas Paqueta are ‘considering legal action’ against the Football Association, threatening a case of potential ‘loss of earnings’ if they are again denied the chance of joining Manchester City.

As it stands, the FA have refused to confirm if a verdict on the case of gambling allegations would be delivered in time for Paqueta to move this summer, with Manchester City understood to be retaining transfer interest from the last summer market.

Manchester City will have no problem turning their attentions elsewhere, should a deal for Lucas Paqueta not be possible in the coming months, with the likes of Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle also on their wishlist.

A more ambitious move in the market could see City swoop for Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala, however the general feeling within the Etihad Stadium is that the German midfielder is more likely to stay at the Allianz Arena.

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Manchester City take on Fulham and Tottenham this week in two trips to London in four days, before returning for the final fixture of the Premier League season next week against West Ham.

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Manchester City have only had three games all season when they can claim to have a fully-fit squad – with each having caveats.

The trip to Brentford saw no major injuries, but Sergio Gomez was missing, just like last weekend when Oscar Bobb didn’t make the squad vs Wolves. Even with everyone fit, one outfield player would have to miss out, so Guardiola was still able to select his strongest side. The other occasion was the home fixture in the Champions League against Real Madrid.

However on that occasion, City ended the night with injury and fitness concerns to Kevin De Bruyne, Manu Akanji and Manu Akanji, with Haaland missing two games as a result.

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So it is a boost to come through the Wolves game with no further injury concerns, and for the squad to return to training this week with a full bill of health. The Fulham trip this weekend could see City enter consecutive games with no injury concerns for the first time since last season’s run-in 12 months ago.

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Pep Guardiola granted his players a few days off between Saturday evening and Wednesday’s training session, giving players the opportunity to rest and relax ahead of a busy final week of the Premier League season.

Some players jetted off abroad for the final time this season, while others remained closer to home. City will now prepare to face Fulham on Saturday at midday before returning to London on Tuesday to face Tottenham.

To have a squad with no injury or fitness concerns – boosted by having two fixtures over the previous 13 days – gives Guardiola a boost that he could not have timed better ahead of the final three games of the season.

Guardiola will want to settle on a strongest XI in time for the Spurs trip and West Ham finale which could mean there is some rotation at Fulham. The squad will then have six days following the final day to recover and prepare for the FA Cup final at Wembley vs Manchester United.

Guardiola will give a more detailed update on his squad on Friday when he previews the Fulham fixture.

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