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💣 Bomb: Florentino Pérez was not convinced by Álvaro Arbeloa’s decision to use La Fábrica players in the first team.
He believed the coach should have prioritised established players in whom the club had made significant investments.
The president was also concerned to see players like Franco Mastantuono, Dean Huijsen and Álvaro Carreras repeatedly left out of the starting XI, despite the club spending nearly €160M on them last summer.

Source: MARCA.

Manchester City vrs Burnley

Manchester City could climb to the top of the Premier League table and relegate Burnley in the process if they claim maximum points at Turf Moor on Wednesday night.

The Citizens, fresh from their vital victory over leaders Arsenal, eased to a 5-1 win in the reverse fixture against the Clarets at the Etihad Stadium, courtesy of a brace from Erling Haaland and two own goals from Maxime Esteve.

Haaland has an impressive minutes-per-goal ratio of one every 36 minutes against Burnley (seven goals in four games) and the Norwegian is expected to lead the line once again, with Jeremy Doku and Antoine Semenyo - who has scored three goals in as many top-flight games against the Clarets - set to provide support from out wide.

Burnley possible starting lineup:

Dubravka; Walker, Ekdal, Laurent, Esteve, Hartman; Florentino, Ugochukwu, Ward-Prowse; Anthony, Flemming

Manchester City possible starting lineup:

Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O’Reilly; Gonzalez, Bernardo; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland

We say: Burnley 0-3 Manchester City

Considering the gulf in class between these two teams, their contrasting runs of form and their head-to-head record in recent seasons, it is difficult to look beyond a comfortable Man City victory here.

Burnley will be fighting for their lives as they bid to postpone their inevitable relegation, but we expect a ruthless Citizens outfit to have too much quality for the defensively-frail hosts, particularly in exploiting the spaces left behind by a Clarets side forced to chase a result.