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Hello and welcome to the Etihad for tonight's Premier League match between Manchester City and Brentford. After losing points at home against Chelsea On Saturday, the hosts are currently third in the table with 53 points behind Liverpool (57) and Arsenal (55) with a game in hand. A win today would go a long way to keeping the pressure on the leaders.
The Bees, who are in 14th place with 25 points, are exiting 4-1 defeat to Liverpool at home where Ivan Toney's only goal was canceled out by Darwin Núñez, Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Mo Salah upon his return from injury.
The team sheets will be with us at any time and we will deliver them directly to you.
Preamble
Good night. Welcome to rescheduling coverage first division match at the Etihad Stadium, where the defending champions will hope to recover from their minor setback against Chelsea at the weekend to overtake Arsenal and move within one point of leaders Liverpool, who host Luton tomorrow. Bryan will be here with full coverage shortly, but in the meantime, Pep Guardiola felt he had to apologize before tonight's game. Read all about it here.
And Jonathan Wilson analyzed Manchester City's 1-1 draw with Chelsea and concluded that it highlighted a glaring weakness in Pep Guardiola's team.
