Manchester City vs Brentford live stream and match preview, Saturday 12 November, 12.30pm GMT
Manchester City vs Brentford live stream and match preview
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Pep Guardiola's side have the chance to put the pressure on Arsenal by climbing into top spot on Saturday. City take to the field at lunchtime, while Mikel Arteta's men must wait until 7.45pm for their game against Wolves to begin. Currently two points adrift of the Gunners, City could go one point clear - at least temporarily.
The champions had to work hard for all three points last weekend. Joao Cancelo's first-half red card made their task against Fulham more difficult, and it was not until deep into stoppage time at the end of the match that City struck the winner through an Erling Haaland penalty.
There was also late drama in Brentford's last league outing, as Nottingham Forest snatched a point with seconds left on the clock.
A 2-2 draw at the City Ground means the Bees have now gone four matches without a win in the Premier League, while they were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Gillingham in midweek. Thomas Frank's side will be up against it at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Team news
Kyle Walker is City's only absentee (although the injured England defender has made Gareth Southgate's World Cup squad). Cancelo starts after serving his one-match ban in Wednesday's Carabao Cup Round Three win over Chelsea, but there are three changes from the side which lined up against Fulham: Aymeric Laporte replaces Nathan Ake at centre-back; Haaland makes his first start since returning from injury, displacing Julian Alvarez; and Phil Foden comes in for Jack Grealish on the left.
Brentford, meanwhile, revert to a back three and make three changes from the 11 which started the draw with Forest: Ivan Toney (who was suspended for that match), Frank Onyeka and Zanka come in; Keane Lewis-Potter, Yoane Wissa and Josh Dasilva drop out.
Form
Manchester City: WWWLW
Brentford: DDLDW
Referee
Peter Bankes will be the referee for Manchester City vs Brentford.
Stadium
Manchester City vs Brentford will be played at the Eithad Stadium.
Other games
Manchester City vs Brentford is the only match taking place in this timeslot.
Kick-off and channel
Kick-off is at 12.30pm GMT on Saturday 12 November and the game is being shown on BT Sport 1 in the UK. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
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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.
