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Manchester City vs Bournemouth: Team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats from the Premier League clash

Published: 06:30 EDT, 22 December 2017 | Updated: 16:35 EDT, 22 December 2017

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Manchester City's home clash with Bournemouth at 3.00pm on Saturday at the Etihad Stadium.

In or out? Keep up-to-date with all the latest team news and stats ahead of the weekend games

Manchester City vs Bournemouth (Etihad Stadium)

Team news

Manchester City

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany will have a fitness test ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash with Bournemouth.

The Belgium defender has been out for three games with a muscular injury but is now back in training and is expected to return soon.

The availability of playmaker David Silva, who has missed the past two games for personal reasons, is unclear but midfielder Phil Foden (ankle) and defenders Benjamin Mendy (knee) and John Stones (hamstring) are out.

Provisional squad: Ederson, Bravo, Walker, Danilo, Otamendi, Kompany, Delph, Zinchenko, Toure, Gundogan, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Sane, Sterling, B Silva, Aguero, Jesus.

Bournemouth

Striker Jermain Defoe will be among a number of injury absentees for Bournemouth's Premier League game at leaders Manchester City.

England international Defoe is scheduled to see a specialist after limping out of the midweek Carabao Cup defeat to Chelsea with an ankle issue, while midfielder Harry Arter suffered a calf problem in that game and is unlikely to be available.

Striker Callum Wilson (knee) should be fit to feature at the Etihad Stadium, but full-back Charlie Daniels (groin) and forward Joshua King (hamstring) are both doubts, while Brad Smith (hip), Adam Federici and Tyrone Mings (both back) are definitely out.

Provisional squad: Begovic, Boruc, Ramsdale, S Cook, Francis, Simpson, Ake, A Smith, Daniels, Surman, L Cook, Fraser, Gosling, Pugh, Hyndman, Ibe, Stanislas, King, Afobe, Wilson, Mousset.

Jermain Defoe will be among a number of injury absentees for Eddie Howe's side

Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

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Manchester City have won nine and lost none of their 11 previous league matches against Bournemouth (D2), winning all five in the Premier League.

The Cherries have conceded nine goals in two previous Premier League visits to the Etihad, losing 5-1 in October 2015 and 4-0 in September 2016.

Bournemouth have never won a match in Manchester against either City or United in 11 previous attempts in all competitions (W0 D2 L9), conceding 32 goals in those 11 games.

Raheem Sterling has scored in all four of his Premier League appearances against Bournemouth, scoring six goals including a hat-trick in October 2015 and last-minute winner in this season’s reverse fixture.

If Manchester City win this, it will be the joint-second longest ever winning run in one of Europe’s big five leagues (17 games). The current record is 19, achieved by Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich in 2013-14.

An English manager hasn’t won a Premier League match at the Etihad since May 2010, when Harry Redknapp won 1-0 with Spurs. Since then, English managers have drawn three and lost 32 of 35 Premier League trips to the Etihad; current Bournemouth striker Jermain Defoe started that match for Spurs in 2010.

Manchester City have scored at least twice in each of their last 11 Premier League games – only the Citizens themselves have ever had a longer such run in the competition (14 games ending in November 2011).

Manchester City have scored 97 Premier League goals in 2017 so far – the last team to score 100+ goals in a single year within the English top-flight were Liverpool (106 goals) in 1982.

Gabriel Jesus hasn’t lost any of the 26 league games he’s played since joining Man City

Gabriel Jesus hasn’t lost any of the 26 Premier League games that he’s played in since joining Manchester City – only four players have ever had a longer unbeaten start to a Premier League career (Jens Lehmann 47, Arjen Robben 37, Didier Drogba 37 and Gael Clichy 29).

Since the start of last season, Bernardo Silva has been on the winning side in 44 league matches – this is more than any other player across the top five European Leagues.

Bernardo Silva hasn’t been on the losing side in a league match for over a year now (18th December 2016) and has since gone on a 36-game unbeaten league run across his Monaco & Manchester City career (W33 D3 L0).