Manchester City know that once again there’s no room for any slip-ups as they travel to face Leeds at Elland Road this evening.
Liverpool’s win over Newcastle earlier today has lifted the Reds two points clear at the top of the Premier League table, but Pep Guardiola’s side can return to the summit with victory here.
While there is a huge midweek match to come for City, against Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final tie, they cannot afford to lose focus against Leeds.
The hosts meanwhile could really do with a positive result themselves, as they look to avoid being really dragged into a relegation battle in the final few games of the season.
Leeds are five points clear of Everton in 18th but the Toffees have a game in hand, so Jesse Marsch’s side are certainly not safe yet.
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Cooper injured in the warm-up for Leeds, so Klich comes into the side.
Goes without saying that the home side could really have done without losing such a key player, their captain, minutes before kick-off.
Both sides send ‘No War’ message
Real Madrid are in action at the moment, though their position in La Liga is a lot more comfortable than Man City’s.
Karim Benzema on the scoresheet for the leaders – shock. They lead Espanyol 4-0, which will confirm them as champions.
Real going to be heading into Wednesday’s second leg in Madrid against City full of confidence. Guardiola’s side will hoping to do the same!
That’s not going to help Leeds…
Leeds find themselves getting dragged right back into the relegation battle.
Burnley have managed to turn it around at Watford to snatch a massive three points – they’ve now moved above Leeds.
Now would be a great time for Marsch’s side to stun City!
Guardiola: Leeds will be tough
It’s another must-win match for Pep Guardiola’s side, but the Man City boss is expecting Leeds to make it a really tough 90 minutes at Elland Road.
“Leeds is tough – the crowd, they are fighting for points,” Guardiola said.
“We need points. We know it. The people feel it. The players trained today with incredible focused I think everybody at the club knows what we’re playing for and what they have to do.
“We make an incredible last three games, lots of goals we score and that’s what we must continue to do. In football sometimes you get rewards sometimes you must accept defeats.”
Here come the visitors…
So De Bruyne and Silva on the bench for Man City this evening, with Grealish and Gundogan among those coming in. No Walker as expected, so Cancelo starts at right-back with Ake on the left.
Jesus will be looking to keep up his impressive recent goalscoring form.
For Leeds, Firpo, Koch and Struijk come into the side. Klich has to settle for a place on the bench, as to the speedy duo James and Gelhardt.
Leeds team
Starting XI: Meslier, Ayling, Struijk, Cooper, Firpo, Koch, Phillips, Dallas, Raphinha, Harrison, Rodrigo
Subs: Klaesson, Klich, Shackleton, Cresswell, Bate, Greenwood, Gelhardt, James, Llorente
Man City team
Starting XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Dias, Laporte, Ake, Rodri, Gundogan, Grealish, Jesus, Foden, Sterling
Subs: Steffen, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Fernandinho, Mahrez, Egan-Riley, Mbete, McAtee
Teams news from Elland Road coming up in less than ten minutes.
We saw Klopp shuffle his pack earlier – will Guardiola do the same with the midweek trip to Madrid on his mind?
We’ll soon find out!
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