Man City have selection dilemma vs Newcastle and could hand debut to new signing

Erling Haaland has had a great start at Manchester City already but, by Pep Guardiola's own admission, the team still needs to get used to playing with a proper striker leading the line, while the Norwegian is still acclimatising to his new manager's methods. That was typified when Phil Foden shot early on against Bournemouth when Haaland was begging to be teed up for a tap-in.

It's scary to think how much better Haaland can get since he already has two goals and an assist in his opening two games but once those kinks are ironed out they will be an even more daunting prospect for defences. We could see if there have been any improvements made this week on Sunday.

Guardiola has got a new addition to his squad this week and it'll be interesting to see if Sergio Gomez is handed his debut on Sunday. There's no chance he'll start ahead of Joao Cancelo but Guardiola is open to swapping his full-backs later on in the match thanks to the two extra substitutions, with teenager Rico Lewis getting some minutes last week.

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So there is scope for Gomez to get out on the pitch for the first time in a Blue shirt, just a few days after joining the club. The Spaniard has some exciting, attacking pedigree that there could be a first glimpse of at St. James' Park.

Guardiola was rightly dismissive of City's early lead over Liverpool, which is at four points after the Reds drew their opening two fixtures, in his pre-match press conference but it certainly wouldn't do any harm to stretch that lead further. There are 108 points still to play for and Liverpool made up a considerable gap to run City close last season, so absolutely nothing is getting settled any time