Man City seek to continue their Etihad dominance over Newcastle

Manchester City host Newcastle United in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, as they hope to capitalise on Arsenal’s midweek slip-up at Wolves.

City claimed a hard-fought 2-0 victory over League Two outfit Salford City in the FA Cup last time out.

The Citizens also intensified their title push as they defeated Fulham 3-0 in their last Premier League outing.

Newcastle secured a comfortable 6-1 victory at Qarabag in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League playoff tie on Wednesday.

The Magpies were also successful in their last Premier League outing, beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-1.

Match preview

Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 21 Premier League home games against Newcastle, winning each of the last 16. In English top-flight history, only Everton have had a longer winning home run against an opponent (22 vs Fulham between 1961 and 2018).

Newcastle are looking to complete their first league double over Manchester City since 1983/84 (second tier) and their first in the top flight since 1955/56. However, their 20 games at the Etihad Stadium are the most a team has played at a venue without ever winning in Premier League history (D2 L18).

The Citizens have won their last six Premier League home games against Newcastle without conceding. In their top-flight history, only against Stoke have they had a longer run of consecutive wins to nil (7 between 1982 and 2014).

The Magpies could complete a league double over Man City, having lost both legs of their League Cup semi-final against them in January and February. The last side to win both Premier League meetings against an opponent in a season when they’ve also lost two games to them in other competitions was Manchester City in 2011/12 against Man Utd (lost in Community Shield and FA Cup).

Man City’s Omar Marmoush has scored five goals in his two home games against Newcastle in all competitions, netting a hat-trick in this exact fixture last season and a brace in this season’s EFL Cup semi-final.

Harvey Barnes scored both of Newcastle’s goals in their 2-1 win over Man City in the reverse fixture. The last Magpies player to score home and away against the Citizens in the same league season was Alan Shearer in 2004/05.

Phil Foden has been involved in 99 Premier League goals (68 goals, 31 assists) and could be the sixth Man City player to reach 100 goal involvements. He would be the 18th youngest player to reach this milestone overall (25y 269d on the day of the game) and the second youngest for Man City behind Erling Haaland (24y 237d).

Team news

Manchester City

Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic are definitely out with injuries, while Jeremy Doku and Savinho are doubts for this fixture.

Newcastle United

Bruno Guimaraes, Tino Livramento, Fabian Schar and Emil Krafth are unavailable due to injuries, while Lewis Miley, Sven Botman and Yoane Wissa will be assessed ahead of kickoff.

Predicted line-ups

Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Rúben Dias, Marc Guéhi, Rayan Aït-Nouri, Rodri, Nico O’Reilly, Phil Foden, Bernardo Silva, Antoine Semenyo, Omar Marmoush.

Newcastle United: Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Malick Thiaw, Dan Burn, Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali, Joe Willock, Jacob Ramsey, Anthony Elanga, Harvey Barnes, Anthony Gordon.