Leeds vs Man City LIVE: Premier League team information, line-ups and more tonight

Police are interesting for witnesses after a lady suffered an inch-long laceration to her head throughout Manchester City’s Carabao Cup match with Liverpool final week.

The 15-year-old woman was sitting amongst dwelling supporters within the South Stand of the Etihad Stadium on Thursday 22 December when she was struck by a tough plastic cup weighed down with cash, believed to have been thrown from a bit of Liverpool followers sitting within the higher tier.

The cup shattered on affect and left her bleeding from a deep gash to the top. She was taken to hospital for medical consideration.

Her father later submitted an image of his daughter’s bloodied City scarf and instructed the Manchester Evening News that she can be “scarred for life” by the harm. He additionally mentioned he had been contacted by Liverpool’s chief govt, Billy Hogan, who apologised for the incident.

Leeds United’s ultimate two league video games earlier than the World Cup have been a 4-3 dwelling win towards Bournemouth and a 4-3 defeat at Tottenham. They got here again from 3-1 down versus the Cherries and have been forward thrice at Spurs earlier than shedding.

What do Jesse Marsch’s males have in sotre for us tonight?

The 27-year-old was a notable absentee from City’s 3-2 Carabao Cup win over Liverpool when Guardiola named different members of England’s World Cup squad – John Stones, Kyle Walker, Jack Grealish and Phil Foden – on the bench and introduced three of them on.

And Guardiola has mentioned the summer time signing was not in the suitable situation to play as he instructed him to drop pounds.

“He’s not injured,” he mentioned. “He arrived overweight. I don’t know [why]. He didn’t arrive in the condition to do training sessions and to play.”

Manchester City scored 11 objectives with out reply towards Leeds final season, successful 7-0 at dwelling and 4-0 at Elland Road.

If they triumph tonight they are going to win three consecutive league matches versus Leeds for the primary time since a run of 4 from 1980 to 1983.

The champions went into the World Cup break trailing leaders Arsenal by 5 factors – a niche that has elevated to eight following the Gunners’ Boxing Day win over West Ham.

City returned to motion with an upbeat efficiency in a 3-2 win over Liverpool within the Carabao Cup final week and now hope to keep up the momentum.

Some early reviews speculate that Manchester City will begin tonight’s match with out Joao Cancelo, Kyle Walker, and Phil Foden. The official team information will likely be dropping in round half an hour so it’ll be fascinating to see how Pep Guardiola traces up his team.

A difficult return to league motion for Pep Guardiola’s team, who’ve tended to wrestle up towards an brisk Leeds team previously.

Yet the choice points the hosts have – coupled with City’s squad depth – means Jesse Marsch’s facet will likely be firmly up towards it this time spherical.

Leeds 1-4 Manchester City.

Leeds: Klaesson; Kristensen, Cooper, Koch, Struijk; Roca, Forshaw; Aaronson, Rodrigo, Harrison; Gelhardt

Manchester City: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Akanji, Cancelo; Gundogan, Rodri, De Bruyne; B. Silva, Haaland, Foden

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier needs to be match sufficient to start out after a latest bout of glandular fever however Tyler Adams is suspended after his pink card towards Spurs earlier than the World Cup break.

Manchester City’s Ruben Dias is out for a month as a consequence of a hamstring harm, whereas Kalvin Phillips won’t function as a consequence of issues over his health.

Julian Alvarez can also be lacking from the squad after being given day off to have a good time Argentina’s World Cup victory.

The recreation will likely be performed at 8:00pm (GMT) on Wednesday twenty eighth December at Elland Road.

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