{"id":2135,"date":"2026-03-22T20:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:08:53","slug":"manchester-city-name-carabao-cup-final-team-to-face-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City name Carabao Cup final team to face Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Pep Guardiola has named his Manchester City side to face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The headline news is at centre-back, with Ruben Dias and Marc Guehi ruled out. Dias is sidelined by a hamstring injury, while Guehi is ineligible against Arsenal because he is cup-tied.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old appeared three times for previous club Crystal Palace earlier in the competition.Fellow January signing Antoine Semenyo can play, having been signed prior to the semi-final first leg against Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of that duo, Abdukodir Khusanov and Nathan Ake are paired in central defence. James Trafford starts in goal with Guardiola confirming on Friday that the club\u2019s cup goalkeeper would retain his place for the final.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Manchester City team to face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Manchester City XI:<\/strong> Trafford, Nunes, Khusanov, Ake, O&#8217;Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo (C), Semenyo, Cherki, Doku, Haaland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes:<\/strong> Donnarumma, Reijnders, Stones, Marmoush, Kovacic, Nico, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Foden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Kepa starts as Arsenal name team for Carabao Cup final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Arsenal vs Manchester City \u2013 Carabao Cup final Combined XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has named his Manchester City side to face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}