Predicted XI: Manchester City vs West Ham

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Predicted XI: Manchester City vs West Ham

Manchester City look to continue their unbeaten start to the season against West Ham United, the team who handed the Blues their first league defeat of the season last year.

City, though they have their flaws, are slowly but surely adapting to Pep Guardiola’s way of playing and come into the home game against West Ham having qualified for the Champions League group stages following a 6-0 aggregate win over Steau Bucharest in the play-off round.

In their last Premier League outing, City won 4-1 away at Stoke though it wasn’t as convincing as the scoreline would suggest.

West Ham have claimed just the one win in all competitions this season, which came last weekend against Bournemouth.

But the Hammers were hit with disappointment on Thursday when they were were knocked out of the Europa League in the play-off round by Astra Giurgiu for the second consecutive season.

Slaven Bilic’s side also have an incredible 10 players sidelined at present, including strikers Andy Carroll and Andre Ayew as well as new signing Havard Nordtveit.

City on the other hand, had 30 players in training leading up to the game so there are plenty of options for Pep Guardiola to work with.

Here is how we think City will line up.

MCFC fan. Pursuing a career in Sports Journalism. Once missed Yaya Toure score at Wembley.

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