City have the perfect chance to make amends for their recent run of poor results when they welcome cross town rivals United to Eastlands for Sunday's lunch time kick off. Last season's two Manchester derby's were a one side affair with City smashing seven in total past David Moyes’s shambles of a defence. In fact City have been victorious from five of the last six encounters. United will be buoyed by their much improved performance against table topping Chelsea last week.

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Lampard is still out of contention with a thigh injury and Silva now joins him after sustaining knee ligament damage against Newcastle in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday night. An injury which will see him sidelined for three weeks. Toure picked upa knock in the same game and will be assessed before the game. Nasri as now made a full recovery and will be available for selection.

Radamel Falcao, Antonio Valencia, Ashley Young, Jonny Evans and Paddy McNair could all be available for selection for United after missing recent games with injuries. Phil Jones is a doubt with shin splits.

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Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero have both scored four goals in five Premier League appearances against Manchester United.

Manchester City have won five and lost just one of the last six Premier League Manchester derbies.

Yaya Toure has scored in three of his last four Premier League appearances against Man Utd.

Wayne Rooney has scored four goals in his last five Premier League appearances at the Etihad Stadium, including three in his last two games there.

Rooney is the top scorer in Manchester derbies, both overall and in the Premier League — 11 in all comps and eight in the Premier League.

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