How Man City should line up in Premier League fixture vs Newcastle United

Manchester City take on Newcastle United on Sunday afternoon as they look to maintain their 100 per cent start to the season.

City have got their Premier League title defence off to a hot start with comfortable victories over West Ham and Bournemouth and will now aim to keep their place at the top of the table with a third win in succession at St. James' Park. Pep Guardiola has a new addition in his squad for the match after the arrival of left-back Sergio Gomez earlier this week.

Cole Palmer and Kalvin Phillips are also both back in the squad, with Guardiola having a near-clean bill of health for the match. Aymeric Laporte does remain sidelined, however.

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Guardiola likes to rotate his players to keep them happy but he does have a friendly coming up in midweek where he can give some much-needed minutes to anyone who hasn't had them so far. Nathan Ake was excellent against Bournemouth so unless you are dropping Ruben Dias it would be extremely harsh for John Stones to come in.

The same goes for Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin De Bruyne, running the show again while Bernardo Silva watched on without being needed before the game was won. And while Phil Foden probably got a few stern words for not squaring the ball for Erling Haaland, he still picked up a goal and an assist in his half where Jack Grealish didn't.

Unless Grealish starts on the right, Riyad Mahrez probably keeps his place.

With the games still not coming at a breakneck speed just yet, Guardiola has the luxury to make minimum changes to his side. This is especially