Norwich City v Manchester City: Premier League – live!

14 September 2019 03:43
Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-offCity won’t spend big to replace injured Laporte, says GuardiolaAny comments? Email scott.murray@theguardian.com 4.43pm BST Norwich make four changes to the team named for the 2-0 defeat at West Ham. Sam Byram, Ibrahim Amadou, Kenny McLean and Alex Tetty come in for Christoph Zimmermann, Moritz Leitner, Tom Trybull and Max Aarons.Manchester City make three changes to the side that swatted aside Brighton 4-0. Kevin De Bryune and Riyad Mahrez drop to the bench, making way for Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gundogan. The injured Aymeric Laporte is replaced by John Stones. 4.31pm BST Norwich City: Krul, Byram, Amadou, Godfrey, Lewis, McLean, Tettey, Emi, Stiepermann, Cantwell, Pukki.Subs: Hanley, Heise, Drmic, Fahrmann, Srbeny, McGovern, Idah.Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Zinchenko, Gundogan, Rodri, Silva, Bernardo Silva, Aguero, Sterling.Subs: Bravo, Gabriel Jesus, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Mahrez, Joao Cancelo, Foden. 10.21am BST It’s fair to say that Norwich City and Manchester City like to bring the goals. Here are half a dozen specially selected scorelines from the last decade: 7-0, 6-1, 5-1, 4-3, 3-2, 3-0. Forget that this fixture ended goalless the last time it was played, in March 2016. Or that it remained 0-0 the time before that, in February 2014. Because more often than not, these two serve up a high-scoring confection.Norwich are usually on the receiving end. Of all those eye-opening scorelines, the Canaries were winners in just one game, a 3-2 victory at the Etihad in May 2013, Jonathan Howson grabbing the decisive goal in a back-and-forth thriller. That remains their only victory over Manchester City in the top flight since 1993 - thank Mark Robins and Lee Power for that one - though they did win 2-1 in a second-tier fixture in 2001. Continue readingreadfullarticle

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