City make two changes for key trip to Bournemouth

City make two changes for key trip to Bournemouth City make two changes for Tuesday’s key Premier League trip to Bournemouth. Men's Team Final three Etihad Player of the Season nominees confirmed From the side that began Saturday’s FA Cup final win against Chelsea on Saturday, manager Pep Guardiola brings goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and midfielder Mateo Kovacic into the starting eleven. In what marks our penultimate game of the season, James Trafford and Omar Marmoush both revert to the bench.

City will kick off this evening lying five points behind league leaders Arsenal but with a crucial game in hand. Victory this evening would ensure that the race for the title goes down to Sunday’s league finale at home to Aston Villa. Teams BOURNEMOUTH: Petrovic, Smith (C), Hill, Senesi, Truffert, Adams, Scott, Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier, Evanilson Subs: Mandas, Cook, Brooks, Gannon-Doak, Diakite, Kluivert, Adli, Unal, Toth CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Khusanov, Guéhi, O’Reilly, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo (C), Semenyo, Doku, Haaland Subs: Trafford, Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Marmoush, Cherki, Gvardiol, Savinho, Foden Men's Team Pre-order special edition Stones and Silva bookazine now!

Tactics Gianluigi Donnarumma returns in goal with the Italian shielded by a back four of Matheus Nunes, centre halves Marc Guéhi and Abdukodir Khusanov and left back Nico O’Reilly. Rodri again starts as the holding midfielder with skipper Bernardo Silva and Kovacic also deployed in the engine room. Erling Haaland will form City’s central attacking focal point with Jeremy Doku and Antoine Semenyo providing the width down either flank.

Fight to the finish City are straight back at the coal face after the high of last weekend’s memorable FA Cup final win over Chelsea. That made it a second piece of silverware this season following hard on the heels of March’s Carabao Cup success. And there could yet be another prize in the offing with the Premier League still attainable.