{"id":700265,"date":"2026-01-16T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:43:09","slug":"team-news-for-manchester-derby-united-v-city-17-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700265\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news for Manchester derby: United v City | 17 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITY&#8217;S TEAM NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Centre-backs Josko Gvardiol, John Stones and Ruben Dias are all absent due to injury, and Mateo Kovacevic is still sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruben will be back soon,&#8221; said Pep Guardiola. &#8220;Josko, no. John, hopefully [back soon], we will see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champions are plugging the gap by closing in on a move for England international Marc Guehi but, although Crystal Palace have confirmed a deal is close, obviously no move has been finalised for the defender to play on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri has returned from his lay-off but Oscar Bobb is unavailable, and Omar Marmoush is still with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations, as they meet Nigeria in the third\/fourth-placed play-off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Semenyo, who scored at Old Trafford for Bournemouth in the 4-4 draw last month, is in line for his Premier League debut for his new club.<\/p>\n<p>A decision will be taken on Nico Gonzalez&#8217;s fitness after training on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITY&#8217;S TEAM NEWS Centre-backs Josko Gvardiol, John Stones and Ruben Dias are all absent due to injury, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[210802,1592,18,12237,12,20,186278,79,11385,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-700265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026_01_17_old_trafford_manchester","9":"tag-first-team","10":"tag-like","11":"tag-matthijs-de-ligt","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-search","14":"tag-shea-lacey","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-team-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115905784648232200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}