Manchester City vs Aston Villa live stream and match preview, Sunday 12 February, 4.30pm GMT
Manchester City vs Aston Villa live stream and match preview
Looking for a Manchester City vs Aston Villa live stream? We've got you covered. Manchester City vs Aston Villa is being shown on Sky Sports in the UK. Brit abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Premier League with your subscription from anywhere.
Pep Guardiola's side will be looking to get back on track after a 1-0 defeat by Tottenham last time out.
City have also had to deal with the news this week that they have been charged by the Premier League for allegedly breaking its financial rules.
Aston Villa will hope that the champions are distracted by off-field events when the two teams clash on Sunday.
Kick-off is at 4.30pm GMT. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.
Team news
City manager Pep Guardiola makes four changes from last weekend's 1-0 loss at Tottenham. Nathan Ake, Manuel Akanji, Rico Lewis and Julian Alvarez drop out as Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan come in. It is Dias' first start since November after working his way back to fitness since the World Cup.
John Stones misses out through injury, in an otherwise fully fit squad for the champions.
Diego Carlos, Jed Steer and Bertrand Traore are all on the treatment table for Aston Villa, but Calum Chambers comes into the team to replace Tyrone Mings and makes his second Premier League start of the season.
Unai Emery’s starting XI is otherwise unchanged from the 4-2 defeat at home to Leicester City last weekend.
Manchester City XI: Ederson; Walker, Dias, Laporte; Rodri, Gundogan; Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne; Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish.
Aston Villa XI: Martinez; Young, Konsa, Chambers, Digne; Ramsey, Kamara, Douglas Luiz, Buendia; Bailey, Watkins.
Form
Manchester City have lost half of their last six matches in all competitions, and they could be eight points adrift of top spot by the time Sunday's match kicks off.
Aston Villa lost 4-2 to Leicester last time out, but that was only their second league defeat since Unai Emery took charge.
Referee
Robert Jones will be the referee for Manchester City vs Aston Villa.
Stadium
Manchester City vs Aston Villa will be played at the 53,400-capacity Etihad Stadium.
Kick-off and channel
Manchester City vs Aston Villa kick-off is at 4.30pm GMT on Sunday 12 February in the UK. The game is being shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.
In the US, kick-off time is 11.30am ET / 8.30am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
