Every word from Pep Guardiola Man City press conference on team news vs Man Utd and Dias injury blow

Manchester City welcome rivals Manchester United to the Etihad for the first home derby with fans in two years on Sunday.

Pep Guardiola faceed the media on Friday ahead of the visit of United, where he could offer an update on his City squad.

Zack Steffen and Cole Palmer were the only absentees in the FA Cup win at Peterborough on Tuesday, with Kyle Walker suspended. Walker could return against United, while Guardiola had bad news on injury concerns over Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake, who were both substituted at half-time in the cup.

Guardiola rested a number of key players including Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling so all three could return against a United side struggling for consistency under Ralf Rangnick.

City were comfortable winners at Old Trafford earlier in the season in one of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's final games.

Follow below for every word from Guardiola's press conference:

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That's our lot from the open section of Guardiola's press conference. The rest of his comments will be available from Saturday night.

We'll tidy up those quotes and bring you the top stories from what the boss has said so far.

Is he a different player now?

One of the greatest in the last 15 years alongside Messi. We aren't going to see it again. When you achieve these things you're under scrutiny every day. Today especially with social media. He was too good and as a finisher exceptional top player. It was a joy to watch in these years. We have to explode our game and strength to avoid him close to the ball. The game we played there, we were under control, first time he arrive Ederson made incredible save. This is the quality he ha,. We have to control him. One of the greatest in goalscoring machine, always he is