Manchester City v Everton | Tom Lutz

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12.41pm: Jamie Redknapp "literally" watch: "David Silva literally floats around the pitch". The hovercraft-footed cheat.

12.38pm: David Moyes is interviewed pre-match, we don't see what he's holding so there may well be a knife in his hands.

12.35pm: "I like those 8-1 odds," says Gary Naylor. "It's not that I think Everton will win - City will beat better sides than ours this season - but expectations have been set so low at Goodison and so many players are young and / or largely unknown in English football, that there's a kind of fearlessness abroad that produces goals at either end (ignore all that stuff about playing with one or none up front: formations don't score goals, players do). Moyes's men may cop a few 4-0s this season, but we might turn over one or two big boys when they're least expecting it." So 4-0 to City it is then.

12.25pm: David Moyes is upbeat today: "[Playing rich clubs like Manchester City] is like going into a gun fight when I've got a knife, so I have to find a way of using that right." Hope you've got a good lawyer, David.

12.20pm: Your teams for today:

Manchester City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Toure Yaya, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Milner, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Neville, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Coleman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Vellios.

Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)

Preamble: Ev erton are 8-1 to win this match, while Manchester City can afford to swap half of their line-up from the midweek win against Birmingham City Owen Hargreaves, in particular won't be risked two matches in a row and are riding high in the Premier League. And yet, Everton have a pretty good record against City over the last few seasons. Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in both matches last season and Tim Cahill has scored in the last three fixtures he has started against Roberto Mancini's side.

That said City will win 3-0.

Match pointers

Sergio Agero's run of eight goals in his first five Premier League games equals the record set by Micky Quinn for Coventry

Everton have won seven of their last eight Premier League games with Man City, and all four of their games at the Etihad Stadium

David Silva has created more scoring chances from open play (18) than any other top-flight player

Tim Cahill has scored in his last three games against City in Manchester

Yaya Tour scored in both Premier League meetings with Everton last season


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