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WHEN AND WHERE

Pep Guardiola’s side travel to Huddersfield Town in the third round of the Carabao Cup.

We face the Terriers at Accu Stadium on Wednesday 24 September, with kick-off scheduled for 19:45 (UK).

It’s available to watch live in the United Kingdom on Sky Sports, with supporters around the world able to find out where to tune in at the foot of this page, via our TV listings from livesoccertv.com.

You can also follow the action across the afternoon on our official app, as well as the key moments on X: @ManCity. 

TEAMS

HUDDERSFIELD XI: Nicholls, Sorensen, Wallace, Wiles (c), Harness, Chiles, Kasumu, Feeney, Roughan, Redmond, Vost.

Substitutes: Goodman, Ledson, Low, Taylor, Castledine, Radulovic, May, Ashia, Sway

CITY XI: Trafford, Nunes, Stones (c), Ake, O’Reilly, Lewis, Nico, Bobb, Mukasa, Foden, Savinho

Substitutes: Donnarumma, Dias, Reijnders, Bernardo, Phillips, Braithwaite, J Heskey, Mfuni, R Heskey

Next Fixture

All fixtures

Wed 17 Dec

EFL Cup

Man City

19:30

GMT

Brentford

APP COVERAGE

As usual, mancity.com and the Official Man City App is the place to be on matchday. Two hours before kick-off, our regular text updates will begin. 

Then, around 75 minutes prior to the game, our Matchday Live show will start, with special guests Paul Dickov and Andy Morrison to provide City-centric analysis before, during and after the game. 

They’ll also be checking in regularly with Mike Minay and Karen Bardsley who will be at the Joie Stadium, commentating on our Subway League Cup clash with Everton, with kick-off in the group stage scheduled for 19:00 (UK).

Once our Carabao Cup game gets underway, blow-by-blow text updates will continue in our Matchday Centre.

PEP GUARDIOLA PREVIEW

“Tomorrow we are not going to play the same starting XI as the last three games, that’s for sure.

“I said many times, in the Carabao Cup, we respect this competition otherwise we wouldn’t win it four times in a row a few years ago, but the problem is arriving with no injuries and unfortunately we have injuries.

“So it will be a mix of first team and Academy players to play tomorrow. It would have been perfect for Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait Nouri, Omar, many of the players but they are not able to play because they are injured. It is what it is.

“We will try to compete and go through.”

OPPOSING MANAGER: LEE GRANT

Lee Grant became new Huddersfield Town boss this past summer – his first managerial role.

Grant certainly has good pedigree, though, having spent the last three seasons on Kieran McKenna’s staff at Ipswich Town.

Despite being a goalkeeper by trade, Grant was a forwards coach at Portman Road and his work obviously helped the Tractor Boys thrive.

They netted 193 goals across two league campaigns en route to securing back-to-back promotions from League One to the Premier League.

The 42-year-old played between the sticks for Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Burnley, Stoke City and Manchester United before retiring and taking up his coaching post with McKenna.

Grant is one of only two managers in the top four tiers to have played professionally as a goalkeeper, alongside Bromley manager Andy Woodman.

His Huddersfield team have started their League One campaign very well, winning five, drawing one and losing three of their first nine matches to place them fifth in the table.

They beat Sunderland on penalties to reach this stage of the Carabao Cup after playing out a 1-1 draw in normal time at the Stadium of Light.

PREVIOUS MEETING

Our last meeting with Huddersfield saw us defeat the Terriers 5-0 in a January 2024 FA Cup clash.
Phil Foden bagged a brace while Julian Alvarez and

Jeremy Doku scored either side of a Ben Jackson own-goal at the Etihad.

Our last game at the Accu Stadium saw a 3-0 triumph for City in the Premier League in January 2019, goals coming from Danilo, Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane.

The last time we faced Huddersfield in the League Cup was way back in the 1968/69 campaign.

We drew 0-0 away setting up a replay at Maine Road which we won 4-0 thanks to a double by Mike Summerbee, an effort from Colin Bell and an own-goal by Roy Ellam in front of a crowd of 26,948.

We went out 1-0 at home to Blackpool in the next round unfortunately but we did finish that season with two trophies, beating West Brom 6-1 in the Charity Shield to start the campaign and Leicester 1-0 to lift the FA Cup towards the end of it.

LAST TIME OUT

After an intense week, which included a 3-0 win over Manchester United and 2-0 triumph over Napoli, Pep Guardiola’s squad completed the seven days with a 1-1 draw at Arsenal.

Erling Haaland fired City into an early lead with a composed finish on nine minutes.

But an equaliser from Gabriel Martinelli, deep into stoppage time, meant the spoils were shared. 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Michael Salisbury

Assistants: Marc Perry and Steven Meredith

Fourth Official: Oliver Langford

TV LISTINGS

Supporters around the world can find out how to tune in to watch the match live by clicking here, courtesy of livesoccertv.com.

Listings correct as of Sunday 21 September.