{"id":1437,"date":"2026-10-28T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:43:33","slug":"manchester-city-vs-brighton-latest-city-team-news-and-predicted-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City vs Brighton: Latest City team news and predicted starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City begin their Carabao Cup title defence tonight against Brighton at the Etihad, with both sides expected to deliver an exciting attacking contest.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton have impressed under Fabian Hurzeler this season, while Enzo Maresca is likely to rotate his squad ahead of Saturday\u2019s Premier League clash. Antoine Semenyo remains out with a knee injury, while Matheus Nunes and Iliman Ndiaye are doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Several key players, including Erling Haaland, Josko Gvardiol, Ruben Dias and Elliot Anderson, were given time off after the defeat to Aston Villa, making their involvement unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>With rotation expected, tonight\u2019s game could provide City\u2019s squad players with a major opportunity to impress and fight for more playing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Manchester City begin their Carabao Cup title defence tonight against Brighton at the Etihad, with both sides expected to deliver an exciting attacking contest. Brighton <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=1437\" title=\"Manchester City vs Brighton: Latest City team news and predicted starting XI\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01m54srx59hk8kvr2y6g.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}