Newcastle vs Man City LIVE early team news and how to watch Carabao Cup semi-final

Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Manchester City's Carabao Cup semi-final with Newcastle United.

The Blues head to the north east on the back of a thumping 10-0 FA Cup win over third tier Exeter City and know a good result tonight can set them up nicely for the return leg at the Etihad early next month. But Newcastle will be a tough opponent having won this competition last season and taken 11 wins from their last 13 games in all competitions.

Pep Guardiola is expected to name a strong side having started the likes of Rodri and Erling Haaland against Exeter on Saturday. City are still dealing with a host of injury issues and will be without the likes of Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol while Omar Marmoush is away at the Africa Cup of Nations. A late decision will be taken on whether to include Rayan Ait-Nouri, who has returned to Manchester but was hampered by a cancelled flight.

Tonight's game is an 8pm kick off and you can follow all the build-up, action, reaction and analysis with our live blog so stay with us.

Plenty to unpack on the latest episode and the good news is you've time to listen or watch, or indeed listen and watch, before kick off.

Simon Bajkowski and Alex James talked Exeter, Semenyo, the City academy prodcution line and the Newcastle tie.

You can watch the latest episode here or download from your usual podcast provider.

Antoine Semenyo made an instant impression on his Manchester City debut. The £62.5million man scored and assisted as the Blues ran riot against League One side Exeter City in the FA Cup third round last weekend.

The 26-year-old went straight into the side despite only having one training session with his new team-mates after ratifying his move on Friday. Pep