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Man City v Man Utd
City of Manchester Stadium
Saturday, 14 January
Kick-off: 1245 GMT
Loan signing Albert Riera could make his City debut as Claudio Reyna and Danny Mills are both out injured.
Ben Thatcher and David Sommeil are suspended, while Sun Jihai is likely to replace Nedum Onuoha at right-back.
Paul Scholes will sit out the match after a bang on the head at Birmingham on December 28.
New signings Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra are both included in the squad, while top scorer Ruud van Nistelrooy is set to return in place of Louis Saha.
Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce: "I man-marked players three times when I was at Forest and it always worked very successfully for me.
"But when we used the tactic, it was against a team that had one big danger.
"With the talent United have, I won't be considering man-marking Wayne Rooney because your own players get dragged out pf position and they've got so many fine players."
Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs:
"There is going to be passion, on the pitch and in the stands, but it is possible to turn the atmosphere into an advantage.
"If you can quieten the crowd it puts pressure on the home team and that is what we will be looking to do.
"In derby games you don't remember the wins too much, it is the losses that really stick in the mind and we would prefer not to suffer another."
Man City (from): James, De Vlieger, Jihai, Onuoha, Dunne, Distin, Jordan, Sinclair, Croft, Barton, Ireland, Musampa, Riera, Cole, Vassell, Wright-Phillips, Fowler.
Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Howard, Neville, Bardsley, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Brown, Vidic, Evra, O'Shea, Richardson, Park, Ronaldo, Smith, Fletcher, Giggs, Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Saha, Rossi.
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