Manchester City vs Fulham. Premier League.
Etihad Stadium.
Sergio Aguero will not be risked after knee injury; Fulham have no new injury concerns; Follow Man City vs Fulham in our dedicated live blog with highlights published shortly after the final whistle
Saturday 5 December 2020 23:33, UK
Team news, stats and prediction ahead of Man City vs Fulham in the Premier League on Saturday; kick-off 3pm
Manchester City are still without record goalscorer Sergio Aguero for the visit of Fulham in the Premier League.
The striker is back in training after missing City's last two games due to discomfort in the knee but he will not be risked on Saturday.
City otherwise have a fully-fit squad available.
Fulham manager Scott Parker has no new injury concerns as his side look to build on their first away victory of the season against Leicester on Monday.
The game will come too soon for new signing Kenny Tete, although the defender has returned to training this week.
Parker said the 25-year-old remains the only absentee, although he could continue to rotate his squad, with both captain Tom Cairney and Aleksander Mitrovic starting on the bench on Monday.
Follow Man City vs Fulham in our dedicated live match blog. Highlights will also be published on the Sky Sports digital platforms and the Sky Sports Football YouTube channel shortly after the final whistle.
I've been banging the Fulham drum hard and loud in the past few weeks and they hit the right notes at Leicester, causing Brendan Rodgers' team huge amounts of problems on the counter-attack. It will be a case of rinse and repeat surely for Scott Parker at City in terms of tactics.
I'm yet to be convinced Pep Guardiola's men are anywhere near the standards of previous seasons but Fulham will have to improve significantly defensively to stand any hope of nicking a result. Points will be hard to come by but grabbing a goal, playing with the same attacking fluidity as the Leicester win, is well within their capabilities.
Since Deadline Day, Fulham rank sixth in the Premier League for chances created from open play and shots on goal and have scored in all but one of their matches, the anomaly being the Ademola Lookman penalty debacle at West Ham. You can get Evens on Fulham finding the net at the Etihad Stadium with the likes of Lookman (9/2), Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (18/1) and roaming left-back Antonee Robinson (40/1) all runners in the anytime goalscorer markets.
JONES KNOWS PREDICTS: 2-1 (10/1 with Sky Bet)
ALSO LOOK OUT FOR: Fulham to score at Evens
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Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett also has the latest from Leicester and the future of Jonny Evans, while we discuss whether Olivier Giroud should be Chelsea's first-choice striker and Man Utd's tricky trip to West Ham.
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