Donnarumma to make his debut within the Manchester derby

[ad_1] Donnarumma to make his debut within the Manchester derby Gianluigi Donnarumma will make his Manchester Metropolis debut in immediately’s derby on the Etihad Stadium.

The Italian goalkeeper, who joined from Paris Saint-Germain on the finish of the switch window, is one among 5 modifications for the sport in opposition to Manchester United.

Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku all come into the facet that misplaced at Brighton earlier than the worldwide break.

Children Stephen Mfuni and Divine Mukasa are on the bench with seven former Academy gamers a part of the matchday squad.

TEAMS CITY XI: Donnarumma, Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodrigo, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Foden, Doku, Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni

UNITED XI: Bayindir, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Yoro, Shaw, Dorgu, Ugarte, Fernandes, Mbeumo, Amad, Seso.

Subs: Heaton, Lammens, Fredricson, Heaven, Leon, Maguire, Casemiro, Mainoo, Zirkzee.

THE ITALIAN JOB Gianluigi Donnarumma will grow to be the eighth Metropolis participant to make his Premier League bow in a Manchester derby and the third goalkeeper after Andreas Isaksson in 2006 and Claudio Bravo in 2016.

5 of the earlier seven debutants ended up on the profitable facet, though it might be an enormous ask to grow to be the primary to attain since present former striker a Georgia president Mikhail Kavelashvili in 1996!

Goalkeepers had been the speaking level forward of kick-off with Senne Lammens becoming a member of United throughout the summer season switch window.

It might have been the primary time in 18 years that two goalkeepers each made their debuts in a Premier League, excluding opening weekend video games, however Lammens is on the bench for the guests.

ERLING THE Kind MAN Neither facet have been in nice form within the opening weeks of the marketing campaign with Metropolis dropping two of our first three Premier League matches for the primary time since 2004/05.

It’s some time since United have gone right into a derby forward of us within the desk, though they've misplaced two of their opening 4 matches, together with a Carabao Cup defeat to League Two facet Grimsby City.

So it may be higher to have a look at people and, after all, Erling Haaland may be very not often off form.

The Norwegian has three in three Premier League video games and throughout the worldwide break he scored 5 within the win over Moldova, in addition to claiming two assists.

With six targets in eight appearances in opposition to United, together with a hat-trick, Haaland might hopefully be our talisman once more.

Match stats Metropolis have received 5 of our final eight Premier League matches in opposition to United, although we didn’t win final season for the primary time since 2020/21.

United have inflicted 1 / 4 of Pep Guardiola’s complete residence Premier League defeats as Metropolis supervisor, with the guests profitable 4 instances on the Etihad in opposition to the Catalan. They're in search of consecutive wins on the Etihad for the primary time since March 2021.

Since 2015/16, the house group has ended on the profitable facet in simply six out of 20 Premier League conferences within the Manchester derby. Certainly, since then, the one Premier League fixture to see extra away wins is Crystal Palace vs Liverpool.

United registered their eighth win in 30 Premier League matches underneath Ruben Amorim because of their 3-2 win over newly-promoted Burnley of their final sport. Half of Amorim’s wins have been in opposition to promoted sides, with the Portuguese supervisor holding only a 16% win ratio in opposition to sides not promoted to the division that marketing campaign.

Pep Guardiola has misplaced 49 of his 345 Premier League matches, with 22% of these coming because the begin of final November. A defeat on this sport would see him take the second largest variety of video games to lose 50, behind Sir Alex Ferguson, whose fiftieth defeat wasn’t till his 367th match.

United have had 58 photographs within the Premier League this season, 14 greater than another facet. It’s their most photographs within the first three video games of a season since 2017/18.

United have made essentially the most off-ball runs in behind their opponent’s defensive position within the Premier League this season (131), with ahead Bryan Mbeumo liable for 54 of these – essentially the most of any participant. Three of the 5 most in-behind runs by a participant in a match thus far in 2025/26 have been Mbeumo, with a excessive of twenty-two in opposition to Burnley final day out.

Bruno Fernandes has created essentially the most probabilities within the Premier League this season thus far each total (12) and in open play (8). Fernandes has additionally scored in every of United’s final three wins in opposition to Metropolis within the competitors (March 2021, January 2023, December 2024).