The starting lineups are in as Manchester City take on AEK Athens

The starting lineups are in as Manchester City take on AEK Athens Manchester City and AEK Athens have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of tonight’s UEFA Champions League league phase fixture at the Etihad Stadium. Tonight’s match is both sides’ third match of the competition. Each side has won one and lost one of their opening two matches. Enzo Maresca’s side will be eager to bounce back from the 4-2 defeat they suffered at the hands of PSG last week. They’ll face an AEK Athens side that will also be looking to bounce back from a defeat. Marko Nikolic’s side were beaten 3-1 by Shakhtar Donetsk last time out and will be hoping to come away from the Etihad Stadium with a result tonight. Manchester City enter tonight’s match with a host of players under injury clouds. Antoine Semenyo will definitely miss tonight’s match. The Ghana international will be sidelined for eight weeks due to the knee injury he sustained in Manchester City’s 3-2 win over Ipswich Town last Saturday. Erling Haaland, Matheus Nunes, Mateo Kovacic and Nico O’Reilly are all in doubt for tonight’s match. Each player came out of City’s win over Ipswich Town with an injury. Enzo Maresca has told the media that each player is ‘ok’. However, the quartet failed to train with their teammates yesterday. Their availability for tonight’s match is in doubt. Here are both team’s starting lineups for tonight’s match. Manchester City Enzo Maresca has made X changes to starting lineup which beat Ipswich Town. In comes X. X drops to the bench for tonight’s match. Nico O’Reilly, Matheus Nunes, and Mateo Kovacic aren’t in the Manchester City matchday squad for tonight’s match. Starting lineup: Gianluigi, Rico Lewis, Abdukodir Khusanov, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Elliot Anderson, Enzo Fernandez, Allan, Rayan Cherki, Phil Foden, Floyd Samba. Substitutes: Rulli, Bettinelli, Guéhi, Ndiaye, Haaland, Doku, Aït-Nouri, Reis, Bouaddi, McAidoo, Braithwaite. AEK Athens Starting lineup: Brignoli, Rota, Moukoudi, Relvas, Pilios, Majer, Arriaga, Marin, Mario, Jovic, Varga. Substitutes: Balamotis, Kairinen, Gacinovic, Zubkov, Koita, Mantalos, Vida, Lykogiannis, Vitalis, Zini.