Mateo Kovačić and Matheus Nunes went off but told Enzo Maresca they were okay. The Man City manager will protect Ayyoub Bouaddi after his first Premier League start: "he's very young, he's coming from France... we need to help him not put him... under pressure every game"
Three half-time changes in Man City's Champions League defeat to PSG were partly about the Premier League game coming less than 72 hours later, Enzo Maresca said: "we need to go again." Iliman Ndiaye and Ayyoub Bouaddi came on at the break; Maresca said both were good.