How Man City should line up vs Bournemouth in the Premier League

Manchester City will look to build on their derby win over Manchester United when they welcome strugglers Bournemouth to the Etihad.

City produced their best performance of the season at Old Trafford, and will be firm favourites against Andoni Iraola's Cherries. With Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Aston Villa following in the next four Premier League games, City will be looking to keep the pressure on early leaders Spurs - plus rivals Arsenal and Liverpool.

Pep Guardiola should have a full squad available - barring Kevin De Bruyne - so can rotate his side as much as he pleases ahead of next week's Champions League visit of Young Boys, where City can qualify for the knockout stages.

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Read how our writers think City should line up below and use the interactive team selector to pick your own starting XI vs Bournemouth:

It's hard to leave any of the XI out from the derby but it is also difficult not to see Bournemouth as an opportunity to rotate the team. Most of that can come in defence, with Manu Akanji and Nathan Ake coming back into the team for John Stones and Josko Gvardiol.

Mateo Kovacic formed a promising partnership with Rodri that also allowed the Spaniard to get forward more in the early weeks of the season, and this feels like a game where that can be tried out again. With those two though, there is less need for Bernardo Silva's graft and a more attacking player such as Jeremy Doku can be tried instead.

Jack Grealish could probably played both but was so good against Young Boys in Switzerland that Tuesday night's return fixture feels like perfect to let him attempt to run